Who blocks AI · #487 in the Majestic Million

robots.txt · checked 9 Nov 2026

Does euronews.com block AI crawlers?

Yes. euronews.com’s robots.txt blocks 2 of the 19 AI crawlers we track, including GPTBot and CCBot. Search engines such as Googlebot and Bingbot may crawl it.

GPTBotBlocked OAI-SearchBotPartly blocked ClaudeBotAllowed PerplexityBotPartly blocked Google-ExtendedAllowed CCBotBlocked

robots.txt: www.euronews.com/robots.txt · 93 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	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	Partly blocked	line 44 · `Disallow: /api/` line 45 · `Disallow: /media/Player6_0.swf*` and 27 more
`PerplexityBot`	Perplexity	Partly blocked	line 44 · `Disallow: /api/` line 45 · `Disallow: /media/Player6_0.swf*` and 27 more
`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	Partly blocked	line 44 · `Disallow: /api/` line 45 · `Disallow: /media/Player6_0.swf*` and 27 more

AI training

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`GPTBot`	OpenAI	Blocked	line 78 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: GPTBot`
`ClaudeBot`	Anthropic	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Google-Extended`	Google	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`CCBot`	Common Crawl	Blocked	line 78 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: CCBot`
`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	Partly blocked	line 44 · `Disallow: /api/` line 45 · `Disallow: /media/Player6_0.swf*` and 27 more
`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.euronews.com/robots.txt · 93 lines

1# global config

2User-agent: *

3Disallow: /api/

4Disallow: /media/Player6_0.swf*

5Disallow: /js/main-*.js

6Disallow: /js/streamsense-*.min.js

7Disallow: /modules

8Disallow: /plugin

9Disallow: /src

10Disallow: /handler

11Disallow: /utils

12Disallow: /lib

13Disallow: /helper

14Disallow: /update_

15Disallow: /instances

16Disallow: /dom

17Disallow: /class

18Disallow: /client

19Disallow: /_partners/

20Disallow: /login

21Disallow: /register

22Disallow: /internal/articles/previous/

23Disallow: /internal/articles/next/

25# weather pagination

26Disallow: /meteo/*p=

27Disallow: /weather/*p=

28Disallow: /wetter/*p=

29Disallow: /tempo/*p=

30Disallow: /tiempo/*p=

31Disallow: /meteorologia/*p=

32Disallow: /hava-durumu/*p=

33Disallow: /idojaras/*p=

35# ai bots allowed

36User-agent: OAI-SearchBot

37User-agent: ChatGPT-User

38User-agent: PerplexityBot

39User-agent: FirecrawlAgent

40User-agent: AndiBot

41User-agent: ExaBot

42User-agent: PhindBot

43User-agent: YouBot

44Disallow: /api/

45Disallow: /media/Player6_0.swf*

46Disallow: /js/main-*.js

47Disallow: /js/streamsense-*.min.js

48Disallow: /modules

49Disallow: /plugin

50Disallow: /src

51Disallow: /handler

52Disallow: /utils

53Disallow: /lib

54Disallow: /helper

55Disallow: /update_

56Disallow: /instances

57Disallow: /dom

58Disallow: /class

59Disallow: /client

60Disallow: /_partners/

61Disallow: /login

62Disallow: /register

63Disallow: /meteo/*p=

64Disallow: /weather/*p=

65Disallow: /wetter/*p=

66Disallow: /tempo/*p=

67Disallow: /tiempo/*p=

68Disallow: /meteorologia/*p=

69Disallow: /hava-durumu/*p=

70Disallow: /idojaras/*p=

71Disallow: /internal/articles/previous/

72Disallow: /internal/articles/next/

73Allow: /

75# ai bots disallowed

76User-agent: GPTBot

77User-agent: CCBot

78Disallow: /

80# sitemaps

81Sitemap: https://www.euronews.com/news.xml

82Sitemap: https://www.euronews.com/sitemap/articles.xml

83Sitemap: https://www.euronews.com/sitemap/ai-translated.xml

84Sitemap: https://www.euronews.com/sitemap/external-pages.xml

85Sitemap: https://www.euronews.com/sitemap/internal-pages.xml

86Sitemap: https://www.euronews.com/sitemap/lettered-pages/tags.xml

87Sitemap: https://www.euronews.com/sitemap/lettered-pages/programs.xml

88Sitemap: https://www.euronews.com/sitemap/lettered-pages/themes.xml

89Sitemap: https://www.euronews.com/sitemap/lettered-pages/contributors.xml

90Sitemap: https://www.euronews.com/sitemap/lettered-pages/countries.xml

91Sitemap: https://www.euronews.com/sitemap/lettered-pages/hubs.xml

92Sitemap: https://www.euronews.com/sitemap/lettered-pages/verticals.xml

93Sitemap: https://www.euronews.com/sitemap/lettered-pages/continents.xml

What do the bots actually get?

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

Yes. euronews.com’s robots.txt disallows GPTBot from the whole site (line 78: 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 euronews.com block ClaudeBot?

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

Does euronews.com block Google-Extended?

No. euronews.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 euronews.com block PerplexityBot?

Partly. euronews.com’s robots.txt keeps PerplexityBot out of some paths, such as /api/, and lets it crawl the rest. PerplexityBot is the crawler that indexes pages for Perplexity’s answers. Checked 9 November 2026.

Can ChatGPT search find euronews.com?

Partly. euronews.com’s robots.txt keeps OAI-SearchBot out of some paths, such as /api/, and lets it crawl the rest. OAI-SearchBot is the crawler behind ChatGPT search; blocking it keeps the site out of ChatGPT’s search answers. Checked 9 November 2026.