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robots.txt · checked 9 Nov 2026

Does aljazeera.com block AI crawlers?

Yes. aljazeera.com’s robots.txt blocks 5 of the 19 AI crawlers we track, including GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and 2 more. Search engines such as Googlebot and Bingbot may crawl it.

GPTBotBlockedOAI-SearchBotAllowedClaudeBotBlockedPerplexityBotBlockedGoogle-ExtendedAllowedCCBotAllowed
robots.txt
www.aljazeera.com/robots.txt · 71 lines
llms.txt
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Checked
9 November 2026, as canaicrawl. We check again every week.

Every bot, and the line that decides

Search engines

BotOperatorrobots.txtDeciding line
GooglebotGoogleAllowedno rule matches the home page
BingbotMicrosoftAllowedno rule matches the home page
DuckDuckBotDuckDuckGoAllowedno rule matches the home page
ApplebotAppleAllowedno rule matches the home page
PetalBotHuaweiAllowedno rule matches the home page
YandexBotYandexAllowedno rule matches the home page
BaiduspiderBaiduAllowedno rule matches the home page

AI search

BotOperatorrobots.txtDeciding line
OAI-SearchBotOpenAIAllowedno rule matches the home page
PerplexityBotPerplexityBlockedline 58 · Disallow: / under User-agent: PerplexityBot
Claude-SearchBotAnthropicAllowedno rule matches the home page
DuckAssistBotDuckDuckGoAllowedno rule matches the home page
AmazonbotAmazonAllowedno rule matches the home page
YouBotYou.comAllowedno rule matches the home page

AI training

BotOperatorrobots.txtDeciding line
GPTBotOpenAIBlockedline 55 · Disallow: / under User-agent: GPTBot
ClaudeBotAnthropicBlockedline 46 · Disallow: / under User-agent: ClaudeBot
Google-ExtendedGoogleAllowedno rule matches the home page
CCBotCommon CrawlAllowedno rule matches the home page
Applebot-ExtendedAppleAllowedno rule matches the home page
GoogleOtherGoogleAllowedno rule matches the home page
Meta-ExternalAgentMetaAllowedno rule matches the home page
BytespiderByteDanceBlockedline 61 · Disallow: / under User-agent: Bytespider

User-triggered fetchers

BotOperatorrobots.txtDeciding line
ChatGPT-UserOpenAIBlockedline 43 · Disallow: / under User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Claude-UserAnthropicAllowedno rule matches the home page
Perplexity-UserPerplexityAllowedno rule matches the home page
MistralAI-UserMistralAllowedno rule matches the home page
Meta-ExternalFetcherMetaAllowedno rule matches the home page

SEO tools

BotOperatorrobots.txtDeciding line
AhrefsBotAhrefsAllowedno rule matches the home page
SemrushBotSemrushAllowedno rule matches the home page
MJ12botMajesticAllowedno rule matches the home page
DotBotMozAllowedno rule matches the home page
View www.aljazeera.com/robots.txt · 71 lines
1# Al Jazeera Media Network content is made available for your personal, non-commercial
2# use subject to our Terms and Conditions:
3# https://www.aljazeera.com/terms-and-conditions/
4# Any other uses are not permitted, including but not limited to:
5# (1) the development of any software, machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI),
6# and/or large language models (LLMs);
7# (2) text and data mining activities;
8# (3) creating or providing archived or cached data sets containing our content to others; and/or
9# (4) any commercial purposes.
10# Use of any device, tool, or process designed to data mine or scrape the content
11# using automated means is prohibited without prior written permission from
12# Al Jazeera Media Network. Contact https://network.aljazeera.net/en/contact for assistance.
13
14User-agent: *
15Disallow: /api
16Disallow: /asset-manifest.json
17Allow: /search/$
18Disallow: /search/
19Disallow: /home/search?q=
20Disallow: /*/liveblog/*?*update=*
21Disallow: /*?gb=
22Disallow: /*&gb=
23Disallow: /*?traffic_source=
24Disallow: /*&traffic_source=
25Disallow: /*?fbclid=
26Disallow: /*&fbclid=
27Disallow: /*?q=
28Disallow: /*&q=
29Disallow: /*?playlist=
30Disallow: /*&playlist=
31
32# Allow Rules
33
34User-agent: AmazonAdBot
35Allow: /
36
37# Disallow Rules
38
39User-agent: anthropic-ai
40Disallow: /
41
42User-agent: ChatGPT-User
43Disallow: /
44
45User-agent: ClaudeBot
46Disallow: /
47
48User-agent: Claude-Web
49Disallow: /
50
51User-agent: cohere-ai
52Disallow: /
53
54User-agent: GPTBot
55Disallow: /
56
57User-agent: PerplexityBot
58Disallow: /
59
60User-agent: Bytespider
61Disallow: /
62
63
64# Sitemaps
65
66Sitemap: https://www.aljazeera.com/news-sitemap.xml
67Sitemap: https://www.aljazeera.com/sitemaps/article-archive.xml
68Sitemap: https://www.aljazeera.com/sitemaps/article-new.xml
69Sitemap: https://www.aljazeera.com/sitemaps/video-archive.xml
70Sitemap: https://www.aljazeera.com/sitemaps/video-new.xml
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What do the bots actually get?

This page reads robots.txt, which states what aljazeera.com asks of crawlers. A firewall or CDN can still refuse a bot that robots.txt allows. The live check requests the page as each bot and shows the status it gets.

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History

Questions

Does aljazeera.com block GPTBot?

Yes. aljazeera.com’s robots.txt disallows GPTBot from the whole site (line 55: Disallow: /). GPTBot is OpenAI’s crawler for training data; blocking it doesn’t affect ChatGPT search, which uses OAI-SearchBot. Checked 9 November 2026.

Does aljazeera.com block ClaudeBot?

Yes. aljazeera.com’s robots.txt disallows ClaudeBot from the whole site (line 46: Disallow: /). ClaudeBot is Anthropic’s crawler for training data. Checked 9 November 2026.

Does aljazeera.com block Google-Extended?

No. aljazeera.com’s robots.txt lets Google-Extended crawl the site. Google-Extended is the token that controls whether Google may use pages for Gemini training and grounding; it doesn’t affect Google Search. Checked 9 November 2026.

Does aljazeera.com block PerplexityBot?

Yes. aljazeera.com’s robots.txt disallows PerplexityBot from the whole site (line 58: Disallow: /). PerplexityBot is the crawler that indexes pages for Perplexity’s answers. Checked 9 November 2026.

Can ChatGPT search find aljazeera.com?

Yes. aljazeera.com’s robots.txt lets OAI-SearchBot crawl the site. OAI-SearchBot is the crawler behind ChatGPT search; blocking it keeps the site out of ChatGPT’s search answers. Checked 9 November 2026.