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robots.txt · checked 9 Nov 2026

Does ea.com block AI crawlers?

Yes. ea.com’s robots.txt blocks 2 of the 19 AI crawlers we track, including Meta-ExternalAgent and Bytespider. Search engines such as Googlebot and Bingbot may crawl it.

GPTBotAllowed OAI-SearchBotAllowed ClaudeBotAllowed PerplexityBotAllowed Google-ExtendedAllowed CCBotAllowed

robots.txt: www.ea.com/robots.txt · 39 lines
llms.txt: found
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	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`	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	Blocked	line 35 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent`
`Bytespider`	ByteDance	Blocked	line 20 · `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	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.ea.com/robots.txt · 39 lines

1User-agent: *

2Disallow: /results

3Disallow: /games/the-sims/the-sims-4/home/

4Disallow: /games/the-sims/the-sims-4/store-public-api/

5Disallow: /games/the-sims/the-sims-4/store-pages/loginredirect

6Disallow: /games/the-sims/the-sims-4/store-pages/logoutredirect

7Disallow: /games/the-sims/the-sims-4/store-pages/paymentredirect

8Disallow: /*/games/the-sims/the-sims-4/home/

9Disallow: /*/games/the-sims/the-sims-4/store-public-api/

10Disallow: /*/games/the-sims/the-sims-4/store-pages/loginredirect

11Disallow: /*/games/the-sims/the-sims-4/store-pages/logoutredirect

12Disallow: /*/games/the-sims/the-sims-4/store-pages/paymentredirect

13Sitemap: https://www.ea.com/sitemap.xml

15# --- BLOCKED BOTS ---

16User-agent: AI2Bot

17Disallow: /

19User-agent: Bytespider

20Disallow: /

22User-agent: FriendlyCrawler

23Disallow: /

25User-agent: ICC-Crawler

26Disallow: /

28User-agent: cohere-ai

29Disallow: /

31User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler

32Disallow: /

34User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent

35Disallow: /

36#Electronic Arts Inc. and its affiliated companies explicitly reserve all their rights in any content made available, including on websites, social media pages and any other platforms. Electronic Arts content includes without limitation, video games, visual displays of video games, characters, brands, artworks, images, videos, music, dialogue, story, and any Electronic Arts works or data. Any use of such content for the development, training, programming, improvement and/or enhancement of artificial intelligence (including, but not limited to, generative AI systems), web scraping, machine learning, or any form of text or data mining, is prohibited, unless specifically and explicitly authorized in writing by Electronic Arts.

38#This statement is a reservation of rights with respect to text and data mining under Article 4 (3) of Directive (EU) 2019/790 and any analogous statutes worldwide.

What do the bots actually get?

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

No. ea.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 ea.com block ClaudeBot?

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

Does ea.com block Google-Extended?

No. ea.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 ea.com block PerplexityBot?

No. ea.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 ea.com?

Yes. ea.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.