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robots.txt · checked 9 Nov 2026
Does cnil.fr block AI crawlers?
No. cnil.fr’s robots.txt lets all 19 AI crawlers we track crawl the site. Search engines such as Googlebot and Bingbot may crawl it.
GPTBotAllowedOAI-SearchBotAllowedClaudeBotAllowedPerplexityBotAllowedGoogle-ExtendedAllowedCCBotAllowed- robots.txt
- cnil.fr/robots.txt · 192 lines
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- 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 | Allowed | no rule matches the home page |
YandexBot | Yandex | Allowed | no rule matches the home page |
Baiduspider | Baidu | Allowed | no rule matches the home page |
AI search
| Bot | Operator | robots.txt | Deciding line |
|---|---|---|---|
OAI-SearchBot | OpenAI | Allowed | no rule matches the home page |
PerplexityBot | Perplexity | Allowed | no rule matches the home page |
Claude-SearchBot | Anthropic | Allowed | no rule matches the home page |
DuckAssistBot | DuckDuckGo | Allowed | no rule matches the home page |
Amazonbot | Amazon | Allowed | no rule matches the home page |
YouBot | You.com | Allowed | no rule matches the home page |
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 | Allowed | no rule matches the home page |
Applebot-Extended | Apple | Allowed | no rule matches the home page |
GoogleOther | Allowed | no rule matches the home page | |
Meta-ExternalAgent | Meta | Allowed | no rule matches the home page |
Bytespider | ByteDance | Allowed | no rule matches the home page |
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 | Allowed | no rule matches the home page |
MistralAI-User | Mistral | Allowed | no rule matches the home page |
Meta-ExternalFetcher | Meta | Allowed | no rule matches the home page |
SEO tools
| Bot | Operator | robots.txt | Deciding line |
|---|---|---|---|
AhrefsBot | Ahrefs | Allowed | no rule matches the home page |
SemrushBot | Semrush | Allowed | no rule matches the home page |
MJ12bot | Majestic | Allowed | no rule matches the home page |
DotBot | Moz | Allowed | no rule matches the home page |
View cnil.fr/robots.txt · 192 lines
1#
2# robots.txt
3#
4# This file is to prevent the crawling and indexing of certain parts
5# of your site by web crawlers and spiders run by sites like Yahoo!
6# and Google. By telling these "robots" where not to go on your site,
7# you save bandwidth and server resources.
8#
9# This file will be ignored unless it is at the root of your host:
10# Used: http://example.com/robots.txt
11# Ignored: http://example.com/site/robots.txt
12#
13# For more information about the robots.txt standard, see:
14# http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html
15
16User-agent: *
17# CSS, JS, Images
18Allow: /core/*.css$
19Allow: /core/*.css?
20Allow: /core/*.js$
21Allow: /core/*.js?
22Allow: /core/*.gif
23Allow: /core/*.jpg
24Allow: /core/*.jpeg
25Allow: /core/*.png
26Allow: /core/*.svg
27Allow: /profiles/*.css$
28Allow: /profiles/*.css?
29Allow: /profiles/*.js$
30Allow: /profiles/*.js?
31Allow: /profiles/*.gif
32Allow: /profiles/*.jpg
33Allow: /profiles/*.jpeg
34Allow: /profiles/*.png
35Allow: /profiles/*.svg
36
37Allow: /fr/core/*.css$
38Allow: /fr/core/*.css?
39Allow: /fr/core/*.js$
40Allow: /fr/core/*.js?
41Allow: /fr/core/*.gif
42Allow: /fr/core/*.jpg
43Allow: /fr/core/*.jpeg
44Allow: /fr/core/*.png
45Allow: /fr/core/*.svg
46Allow: /fr/profiles/*.css$
47Allow: /fr/profiles/*.css?
48Allow: /fr/profiles/*.js$
49Allow: /fr/profiles/*.js?
50Allow: /fr/profiles/*.gif
51Allow: /fr/profiles/*.jpg
52Allow: /fr/profiles/*.jpeg
53Allow: /fr/profiles/*.png
54Allow: /fr/profiles/*.svg
55
56Allow: /en/core/*.css$
57Allow: /en/core/*.css?
58Allow: /en/core/*.js$
59Allow: /en/core/*.js?
60Allow: /en/core/*.gif
61Allow: /en/core/*.jpg
62Allow: /en/core/*.jpeg
63Allow: /en/core/*.png
64Allow: /en/core/*.svg
65Allow: /en/profiles/*.css$
66Allow: /en/profiles/*.css?
67Allow: /en/profiles/*.js$
68Allow: /en/profiles/*.js?
69Allow: /en/profiles/*.gif
70Allow: /en/profiles/*.jpg
71Allow: /en/profiles/*.jpeg
72Allow: /en/profiles/*.png
73Allow: /en/profiles/*.svg
74
75# Directories
76Disallow: /core/
77Disallow: /profiles/
78
79Disallow: /fr/core/
80Disallow: /fr/profiles/
81
82Disallow: /en/core/
83Disallow: /en/profiles/
84
85# Files
86Disallow: /README.md
87Disallow: /composer/Metapackage/README.txt
88Disallow: /composer/Plugin/ProjectMessage/README.md
89Disallow: /composer/Plugin/Scaffold/README.md
90Disallow: /composer/Plugin/VendorHardening/README.txt
91Disallow: /composer/Template/README.txt
92Disallow: /modules/README.txt
93Disallow: /sites/README.txt
94Disallow: /themes/README.txt
95Disallow: /web.config
96
97Disallow: /fr/README.md
98Disallow: /fr/composer/Metapackage/README.txt
99Disallow: /fr/composer/Plugin/ProjectMessage/README.md
100Disallow: /fr/composer/Plugin/Scaffold/README.md
101Disallow: /fr/composer/Plugin/VendorHardening/README.txt
102Disallow: /fr/composer/Template/README.txt
103Disallow: /fr/modules/README.txt
104Disallow: /fr/sites/README.txt
105Disallow: /fr/themes/README.txt
106Disallow: /fr/web.config
107
108Disallow: /en/README.md
109Disallow: /en/composer/Metapackage/README.txt
110Disallow: /en/composer/Plugin/ProjectMessage/README.md
111Disallow: /en/composer/Plugin/Scaffold/README.md
112Disallow: /en/composer/Plugin/VendorHardening/README.txt
113Disallow: /en/composer/Template/README.txt
114Disallow: /en/modules/README.txt
115Disallow: /en/sites/README.txt
116Disallow: /en/themes/README.txt
117Disallow: /en/web.config
118
119# Paths (clean URLs)
120Disallow: /admin/
121Disallow: /comment/reply/
122Disallow: /filter/tips
123Disallow: /node/add/
124Disallow: /search/
125Disallow: /user/register
126Disallow: /user/password
127Disallow: /user/login
128Disallow: /user/logout
129Disallow: /media/oembed
130Disallow: /*/media/oembed
131
132Disallow: /fr/admin/
133Disallow: /fr/comment/reply/
134Disallow: /fr/filter/tips
135Disallow: /fr/node/add/
136Disallow: /fr/search/
137Disallow: /fr/user/register
138Disallow: /fr/user/password
139Disallow: /fr/user/login
140Disallow: /fr/user/logout
141Disallow: /fr/media/oembed
142Disallow: /fr/*/media/oembed
143
144Disallow: /en/admin/
145Disallow: /en/comment/reply/
146Disallow: /en/filter/tips
147Disallow: /en/node/add/
148Disallow: /en/search/
149Disallow: /en/user/register
150Disallow: /en/user/password
151Disallow: /en/user/login
152Disallow: /en/user/logout
153Disallow: /en/media/oembed
154Disallow: /en/*/media/oembed
155
156# Paths (no clean URLs)
157Disallow: /index.php/admin/
158Disallow: /index.php/comment/reply/
159Disallow: /index.php/filter/tips
160Disallow: /index.php/node/add/
161Disallow: /index.php/search/
162Disallow: /index.php/user/password
163Disallow: /index.php/user/register
164Disallow: /index.php/user/login
165Disallow: /index.php/user/logout
166Disallow: /index.php/media/oembed
167Disallow: /index.php/*/media/oembed
168
169Disallow: /fr/index.php/admin/
170Disallow: /fr/index.php/comment/reply/
171Disallow: /fr/index.php/filter/tips
172Disallow: /fr/index.php/node/add/
173Disallow: /fr/index.php/search/
174Disallow: /fr/index.php/user/password
175Disallow: /fr/index.php/user/register
176Disallow: /fr/index.php/user/login
177Disallow: /fr/index.php/user/logout
178Disallow: /fr/index.php/media/oembed
179Disallow: /fr/index.php/*/media/oembed
180
181Disallow: /en/index.php/admin/
182Disallow: /en/index.php/comment/reply/
183Disallow: /en/index.php/filter/tips
184Disallow: /en/index.php/node/add/
185Disallow: /en/index.php/search/
186Disallow: /en/index.php/user/password
187Disallow: /en/index.php/user/register
188Disallow: /en/index.php/user/login
189Disallow: /en/index.php/user/logout
190Disallow: /en/index.php/media/oembed
191Disallow: /en/index.php/*/media/oembed
192
What do the bots actually get?
This page reads robots.txt, which states what cnil.fr 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.
Run a live check on cnil.fr Test a path in the robots.txt tester
History
- 19 October 2026: first checked.
Questions
Does cnil.fr block GPTBot?
No. cnil.fr’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 cnil.fr block ClaudeBot?
No. cnil.fr’s robots.txt lets ClaudeBot crawl the site. ClaudeBot is Anthropic’s crawler for training data. Checked 9 November 2026.
Does cnil.fr block Google-Extended?
No. cnil.fr’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 cnil.fr block PerplexityBot?
No. cnil.fr’s robots.txt lets PerplexityBot crawl the site. PerplexityBot is the crawler that indexes pages for Perplexity’s answers. Checked 9 November 2026.
Can ChatGPT search find cnil.fr?
Yes. cnil.fr’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.