Who blocks AI · #1187 in the Majestic Million

robots.txt · checked 9 Nov 2026

Does deepl.com block AI crawlers?

No. deepl.com’s robots.txt lets all 19 AI crawlers we track crawl the site. Search engines such as Googlebot and Bingbot may crawl it.

GPTBotAllowed OAI-SearchBotAllowed ClaudeBotAllowed PerplexityBotAllowed Google-ExtendedAllowed CCBotAllowed

robots.txt: www.deepl.com/robots.txt · 64 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 37 · `Disallow: /translator/c/` line 39 · `Disallow: /docs-api-legacy$` and 8 more
`Bingbot`	Microsoft	Partly blocked	line 37 · `Disallow: /translator/c/` line 39 · `Disallow: /docs-api-legacy$` and 8 more
`DuckDuckBot`	DuckDuckGo	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Applebot`	Apple	Partly blocked	line 37 · `Disallow: /translator/c/` line 39 · `Disallow: /docs-api-legacy$` and 8 more
`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`	Google	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`	Google	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 www.deepl.com/robots.txt · 64 lines

1############################################

2# Last full revision: 2026-11-04

3############################################

5Sitemap: https://www.deepl.com/sitemap.xml

7##### Ads & Monetization #####

8User-agent: AdsBot-Google

9User-agent: AdsBot-Google-Mobile

10User-agent: AdIdxBot

11User-agent: Mediapartners-Google

12User-agent: Ads-Naver

13User-agent: Y!J-BRY

14User-agent: Y!J-BRZ

15# Full access for ads quality assessment & UTM tracking

16Allow: /

17# API legacy docs exclusion

18Disallow: /*docs-api-legacy$

19Disallow: /*docs-api-legacy/

20# Cloudflare paths

21Disallow: /cdn-cgi/bm/cv/

22Disallow: /cdn-cgi/challenge-platform/

23Disallow: /cdn-cgi/images/trace/

24Disallow: /cdn-cgi/rum

25Disallow: /cdn-cgi/scripts/

26Disallow: /cdn-cgi/styles/

27Disallow: /cdn-cgi/zaraz/

29##### Organic #####

30User-agent: Googlebot

31User-agent: Bingbot

32User-agent: Yeti

33User-agent: Y!J-ASR

34User-agent: Y!J-WSC

35User-agent: Slurp

36# Campaign paths

37Disallow: */translator/c/

38# API legacy docs exclusion

39Disallow: /*docs-api-legacy$

40Disallow: /*docs-api-legacy/

41# Cloudflare paths

42Disallow: /cdn-cgi/bm/cv/

43Disallow: /cdn-cgi/challenge-platform/

44Disallow: /cdn-cgi/images/trace/

45Disallow: /cdn-cgi/rum

46Disallow: /cdn-cgi/scripts/

47Disallow: /cdn-cgi/styles/

48Disallow: /cdn-cgi/zaraz/

50##### Everone else #####

51User-agent: *

52# Explicit access for campaign paths

53Allow: */translator/c/

54# API legacy docs exclusion

55Disallow: /*docs-api-legacy$

56Disallow: /*docs-api-legacy/

57# Cloudflare paths

58Disallow: /cdn-cgi/bm/cv/

59Disallow: /cdn-cgi/challenge-platform/

60Disallow: /cdn-cgi/images/trace/

61Disallow: /cdn-cgi/rum

62Disallow: /cdn-cgi/scripts/

63Disallow: /cdn-cgi/styles/

64Disallow: /cdn-cgi/zaraz/

What do the bots actually get?

This page reads robots.txt, which states what deepl.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 deepl.com block GPTBot?

No. deepl.com’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 deepl.com block ClaudeBot?

No. deepl.com’s robots.txt lets ClaudeBot crawl the site. ClaudeBot is Anthropic’s crawler for training data. Checked 9 November 2026.

Does deepl.com block Google-Extended?

No. deepl.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 deepl.com block PerplexityBot?

No. deepl.com’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 deepl.com?

Yes. deepl.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.