Who blocks AI · #1240 in the Majestic Million
robots.txt · checked 9 Nov 2026
Does bild.de block AI crawlers?
Yes. bild.de’s robots.txt blocks 9 of the 19 AI crawlers we track, including PerplexityBot, CCBot, Applebot-Extended and 6 more. It also blocks PetalBot and Baiduspider among search engines.
GPTBotAllowedOAI-SearchBotAllowedClaudeBotAllowedPerplexityBotBlockedGoogle-ExtendedAllowedCCBotBlocked- robots.txt
- www.bild.de/robots.txt · 128 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 | Allowed | no rule matches the home page | |
Bingbot | Microsoft | Allowed | no rule matches the home page |
DuckDuckBot | DuckDuckGo | Allowed | no rule matches the home page |
Applebot | Apple | Allowed | no rule matches the home page |
PetalBot | Huawei | Blocked | line 86 · Disallow: / under User-agent: PetalBot |
YandexBot | Yandex | Allowed | no rule matches the home page |
Baiduspider | Baidu | Blocked | line 86 · Disallow: / under User-agent: Baiduspider |
AI search
| Bot | Operator | robots.txt | Deciding line |
|---|---|---|---|
OAI-SearchBot | OpenAI | Allowed | no rule matches the home page |
PerplexityBot | Perplexity | Blocked | line 86 · Disallow: / under User-agent: PerplexityBot |
Claude-SearchBot | Anthropic | Allowed | no rule matches the home page |
DuckAssistBot | DuckDuckGo | Blocked | line 86 · Disallow: / under User-agent: DuckAssistBot |
Amazonbot | Amazon | Blocked | line 86 · Disallow: / under User-agent: Amazonbot |
YouBot | You.com | Blocked | line 86 · Disallow: / under User-agent: YouBot |
AI training
| Bot | Operator | robots.txt | Deciding line |
|---|---|---|---|
GPTBot | OpenAI | Allowed | no rule matches the home page |
ClaudeBot | Anthropic | Allowed | no rule matches the home page |
Google-Extended | Allowed | no rule matches the home page | |
CCBot | Common Crawl | Blocked | line 86 · Disallow: / under User-agent: CCBot |
Applebot-Extended | Apple | Blocked | line 86 · Disallow: / under User-agent: Applebot-Extended |
GoogleOther | Allowed | no rule matches the home page | |
Meta-ExternalAgent | Meta | Allowed | no rule matches the home page |
Bytespider | ByteDance | Blocked | line 86 · Disallow: / under User-agent: Bytespider |
User-triggered fetchers
| Bot | Operator | robots.txt | Deciding line |
|---|---|---|---|
ChatGPT-User | OpenAI | Allowed | no rule matches the home page |
Claude-User | Anthropic | Allowed | no rule matches the home page |
Perplexity-User | Perplexity | Blocked | line 86 · Disallow: / under User-agent: Perplexity-User |
MistralAI-User | Mistral | Blocked | line 86 · Disallow: / under User-agent: MistralAI-User |
Meta-ExternalFetcher | Meta | Allowed | no rule matches the home page |
SEO tools
| Bot | Operator | robots.txt | Deciding line |
|---|---|---|---|
AhrefsBot | Ahrefs | Blocked | line 86 · Disallow: / under User-agent: AhrefsBot |
SemrushBot | Semrush | Blocked | line 86 · Disallow: / under User-agent: SemrushBot |
MJ12bot | Majestic | Allowed | no rule matches the home page |
DotBot | Moz | Blocked | line 86 · Disallow: / under User-agent: dotbot |
View www.bild.de/robots.txt · 128 lines
1License: https://www.bild.de/rsl.xml
2
3User-agent: AhrefsBot
4User-agent: AI2Bot
5User-agent: Ai2Bot-Dolma
6User-agent: aiHitBot
7User-agent: Amazonbot
8User-agent: Andibot
9User-agent: Applebot-Extended
10User-agent: Awario
11User-agent: Baiduspider
12User-agent: bedrockbot
13User-agent: BLEXBot
14User-agent: Brightbot 1.0
15User-agent: Bytespider
16User-agent: CCBot
17User-agent: cohere-ai
18User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler
19User-agent: Cotoyogi
20User-agent: Crawlspace
21User-agent: DataForSeoBot
22User-agent: Datenbank Crawler
23User-agent: Devin
24User-agent: Diffbot
25User-agent: dotbot
26User-agent: DuckAssistBot
27User-agent: Echobot Bot
28User-agent: EchoboxBot
29User-agent: Factset_spyderbot
30User-agent: FirecrawlAgent
31User-agent: Flamingo_SearchEngine
32User-agent: FriendlyCrawler
33User-agent: ia_archiver
34User-agent: iaskspider/2.0
35User-agent: ICC-Crawler
36User-agent: ImagesiftBot
37User-agent: img2dataset
38User-agent: ISSCyberRiskCrawler
39User-agent: Kangaroo Bot
40User-agent: LCC
41User-agent: magpie-crawler
42User-agent: MistralAI-User
43User-agent: MistralAI-User/1.0
44User-agent: MJ12bot
45User-agent: MyCentralAIScraperBot
46User-agent: netEstate Imprint Crawler
47User-agent: NovaAct
48User-agent: omgili
49User-agent: omgilibot
50User-agent: Operator
51User-agent: PanguBot
52User-agent: Panscient
53User-agent: panscient.com
54User-agent: Perplexity-User
55User-agent: PerplexityBot
56User-agent: PetalBot
57User-agent: PhindBot
58User-agent: Poseidon Research Crawler
59User-agent: QualifiedBot
60User-agent: QuillBot
61User-agent: quillbot.com
62User-agent: SBIntuitionsBot
63User-agent: Scrapy
64User-agent: SemrushBot
65User-agent: SemrushBot-OCOB
66User-agent: SemrushBot-SA
67User-agent: SemrushBot-SWA
68User-agent: sentibot
69User-agent: Sidetrade indexer bot
70User-agent: SirdataBot
71User-agent: sogou spider
72User-agent: SummalyBot
73User-agent: TerraCotta
74User-agent: Thinkbot
75User-agent: TikTokSpider
76User-agent: Timpibot
77User-agent: TurnitinBot
78User-agent: VelenPublicWebCrawler
79User-agent: WARDBot
80User-agent: Webzio-Extended
81User-agent: wpbot
82User-agent: YandexAdditional
83User-agent: YandexAdditionalBot
84User-agent: Yeti
85User-agent: YouBot
86Disallow: /
87
88User-agent: Googlebot-News
89Disallow: /partner/
90Disallow: /jobs/api/gmapi
91Disallow: /community/
92Disallow: /sonstiges/vorproduktion/
93Disallow: /test_stage/
94Disallow: /test/
95Disallow: /cmsid/
96Disallow: /dating/go/
97Disallow: /games/go/
98Disallow: /casinos/go/
99Disallow: /online-apotheke/go/
100Disallow: /energieloesungen/go/
101Disallow: /leben-im-alter/go/
102Disallow: /esim/go/
103
104User-agent: *
105Disallow: /jobs/api/gmapi
106Disallow: /community/
107Disallow: /sonstiges/vorproduktion/
108Disallow: /test_stage/
109Disallow: /test/
110Disallow: /cmsid/
111Disallow: /buehne/
112Disallow: /sonstiges/intern/
113Disallow: /vorprod/
114Disallow: /vorproduktion/
115Disallow: /dating/go/
116Disallow: /games/go/
117Disallow: /casinos/go/
118Disallow: /online-apotheke/go/
119Disallow: /energieloesungen/go/
120Disallow: /leben-im-alter/go/
121Disallow: /esim/go/
122
123# Sitemaps
124Sitemap: https://www.bild.de/sitemap-news.xml
125Sitemap: https://www.bild.de/sitemap-video.xml
126Sitemap: https://www.bild.de/sitemap-index.xml
127Sitemap: https://www.bild.de/sitemap-category.xml
128
What do the bots actually get?
This page reads robots.txt, which states what bild.de 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 bild.de block GPTBot?
No. bild.de’s robots.txt lets GPTBot crawl the site. GPTBot is OpenAI’s crawler for training data; blocking it doesn’t affect ChatGPT search, which uses OAI-SearchBot. Checked 9 November 2026.
Does bild.de block ClaudeBot?
No. bild.de’s robots.txt lets ClaudeBot crawl the site. ClaudeBot is Anthropic’s crawler for training data. Checked 9 November 2026.
Does bild.de block Google-Extended?
No. bild.de’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 bild.de block PerplexityBot?
Yes. bild.de’s robots.txt disallows PerplexityBot from the whole site (line 86: Disallow: /). PerplexityBot is the crawler that indexes pages for Perplexity’s answers. Checked 9 November 2026.
Can ChatGPT search find bild.de?
Yes. bild.de’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.