Who blocks AI · #1117 in the Majestic Million

robots.txt · checked 9 Nov 2026

Does asahi.com block AI crawlers?

Yes. asahi.com’s robots.txt blocks 15 of the 19 AI crawlers we track, including GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended and 12 more. Search engines such as Googlebot and Bingbot may crawl it.

GPTBotBlocked OAI-SearchBotBlocked ClaudeBotBlocked PerplexityBotBlocked Google-ExtendedBlocked CCBotBlocked

robots.txt: www.asahi.com/robots.txt · 166 lines
llms.txt: none
Checked: 9 November 2026, as canaicrawl. We check again every week.

Every bot, and the line that decides

Search engines

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`Googlebot`	Google	Partly blocked	line 17 · `Disallow: /klpuid=`
`Bingbot`	Microsoft	Allowed	line 10 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`DuckDuckBot`	DuckDuckGo	Allowed	line 10 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Applebot`	Apple	Partly blocked	line 17 · `Disallow: /klpuid=`
`PetalBot`	Huawei	Allowed	line 10 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`YandexBot`	Yandex	Allowed	line 10 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Baiduspider`	Baidu	Allowed	line 10 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`

AI search

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`OAI-SearchBot`	OpenAI	Blocked	line 25 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: OAI-SearchBot`
`PerplexityBot`	Perplexity	Blocked	line 105 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: PerplexityBot`
`Claude-SearchBot`	Anthropic	Blocked	line 70 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: Claude-SearchBot`
`DuckAssistBot`	DuckDuckGo	Allowed	line 10 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Amazonbot`	Amazon	Blocked	line 135 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: AmazonBot`
`YouBot`	You.com	Allowed	line 10 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`

AI training

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`GPTBot`	OpenAI	Blocked	line 35 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: GPTBot`
`ClaudeBot`	Anthropic	Blocked	line 60 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: ClaudeBot`
`Google-Extended`	Google	Blocked	line 40 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: Google-Extended`
`CCBot`	Common Crawl	Blocked	line 22 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: CCBot`
`Applebot-Extended`	Apple	Blocked	line 80 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: Applebot-Extended`
`GoogleOther`	Google	Allowed	line 10 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Meta-ExternalAgent`	Meta	Blocked	line 119 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent`
`Bytespider`	ByteDance	Blocked	line 129 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: Bytespider`

User-triggered fetchers

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`ChatGPT-User`	OpenAI	Blocked	line 30 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: ChatGPT-User`
`Claude-User`	Anthropic	Blocked	line 75 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: Claude-User`
`Perplexity-User`	Perplexity	Blocked	line 111 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: Perplexity-User`
`MistralAI-User`	Mistral	Allowed	line 10 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Meta-ExternalFetcher`	Meta	Blocked	line 124 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: Meta-externalfetcher`

SEO tools

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`AhrefsBot`	Ahrefs	Allowed	line 10 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`SemrushBot`	Semrush	Allowed	line 10 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`MJ12bot`	Majestic	Allowed	line 10 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`DotBot`	Moz	Allowed	line 10 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`

View www.asahi.com/robots.txt · 166 lines

1User-Agent: *

2Disallow: /travel/event/search/

3Disallow: /car/index.html

4Disallow: /housing/index.html

5Disallow: /english/newsfeatures.html

6Disallow: /english/business.html

7Disallow: /english/cooljapan.html

8Disallow: /english/sports.html

9Disallow: /*/search/results*

10Allow: /

11Allow: /.well-known/assetlinks.json

12Allow: /ads/

13Allow: /corporate/

16User-agent: Googlebot

17Disallow: /*klpuid=*

18Allow: /ads/

19Allow: /corporate/

21User-agent: CCBot

22Disallow: /

24User-agent: OAI-SearchBot

25Disallow: /

26Allow: /ads/

27Allow: /corporate/

29User-agent: ChatGPT-User

30Disallow: /

31Allow: /ads/

32Allow: /corporate/

34User-agent: GPTBot

35Disallow: /

36Allow: /ads/

37Allow: /corporate/

39User-agent: Google-Extended

40Disallow: /

41Allow: /ads/

42Allow: /corporate/

44User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot

45Disallow: /

46Allow: /ads/

47Allow: /corporate/

49User-agent: ICC-Crawler

50Disallow: /

51Allow: /ads/

52Allow: /corporate/

54User-agent: anthropic-ai

55Disallow: /

56Allow: /ads/

57Allow: /corporate/

59User-agent: ClaudeBot

60Disallow: /

61Allow: /ads/

62Allow: /corporate/

64User-agent: Claude-Web

65Disallow: /

66Allow: /ads/

67Allow: /corporate/

69User-agent: Claude-SearchBot

70Disallow: /

71Allow: /ads/

72Allow: /corporate/

74User-agent: Claude-User

75Disallow: /

76Allow: /ads/

77Allow: /corporate/

79User-agent: Applebot-Extended

80Disallow: /

81Allow: /ads/

82Allow: /corporate/

84User-agent: cohere-ai

85Disallow: /

86Allow: /ads/

87Allow: /corporate/

89User-agent: Cohere-training-data-crawler

90Disallow: /

91Allow: /ads/

92Allow: /corporate/

94User-agent: omgili

95Disallow: /

96Allow: /ads/

97Allow: /corporate/

99User-agent: omgilibot

100Disallow: /

101Allow: /ads/

102Allow: /corporate/

103

104User-agent: PerplexityBot

105Disallow: /

106

107User-agent: Perplexity-ai

108Disallow: /

109

110User-agent: Perplexity-User

111Disallow: /

112

113User-agent: FacebookBot

114Disallow: /

115Allow: /ads/

116Allow: /corporate/

117

118User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent

119Disallow: /

120Allow: /ads/

121Allow: /corporate/

122

123User-agent: Meta-externalfetcher

124Disallow: /

125Allow: /ads/

126Allow: /corporate/

127

128User-agent: Bytespider

129Disallow: /

130

131User-agent: Gensparkbot

132Disallow: /

133

134User-agent: AmazonBot

135Disallow: /

136Allow: /ads/

137Allow: /corporate/

138

139User-agent: Diffbot

140Disallow: /

141

142User-agent: Magpie-crawler

143Disallow: /

144

145User-agent: Scrapy

146Disallow: /

147

148User-agent: Timpibot

149Disallow: /

150

151User-agent: Webzio-Extended

152Disallow: /

153

154User-agent: SBIntuitionsBot

155Disallow: /

156

157User-agent: SBIntuitions-SearchBot

158Disallow: /

159

160User-agent: OpenindexSpider

161Disallow: /

162

163User-agent: AI2Bot

164Disallow: /

165

166sitemap: https://www.asahi.com/sitemap.xml

What do the bots actually get?

This page reads robots.txt, which states what asahi.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

19 October 2026: first checked.

Questions

Does asahi.com block GPTBot?

Yes. asahi.com’s robots.txt disallows GPTBot from the whole site (line 35: 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 asahi.com block ClaudeBot?

Yes. asahi.com’s robots.txt disallows ClaudeBot from the whole site (line 60: Disallow: /). ClaudeBot is Anthropic’s crawler for training data. Checked 9 November 2026.

Does asahi.com block Google-Extended?

Yes. asahi.com’s robots.txt disallows Google-Extended from the whole site (line 40: Disallow: /). 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 asahi.com block PerplexityBot?

Yes. asahi.com’s robots.txt disallows PerplexityBot from the whole site (line 105: Disallow: /). PerplexityBot is the crawler that indexes pages for Perplexity’s answers. Checked 9 November 2026.

Can ChatGPT search find asahi.com?

Not through its own crawler. asahi.com’s robots.txt disallows OAI-SearchBot from the whole site (line 25: Disallow: /). OAI-SearchBot is the crawler behind ChatGPT search; blocking it keeps the site out of ChatGPT’s search answers. Checked 9 November 2026.