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robots.txt · checked 9 Nov 2026
Does europa.eu block AI crawlers?
No. europa.eu’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
- europa.eu/robots.txt · 143 lines
- llms.txt
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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 | Partly blocked | line 6 · Disallow: /taxation_customs/dds2/ecics/ |
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 europa.eu/robots.txt · 143 lines
1#EUROPA.EU ROBOTS.TXT
2
3#BINGBOT
4#IM0022076229 / IM0022372707
5User-agent: bingbot
6Disallow: /taxation_customs/dds2/ecics/
7
8#ALL AGENTS
9User-agent: * # match any robot name
10Disallow: /cgi-bin/ # don't allow robots into cgi-bin
11Disallow: /eur-lex/ # don't index old Eurlex - 13/09/2006 Request from OPOCE (Mr O. Grossmann)
12Disallow: /archives/ # don't index the archives
13
14#IM0012723685 - 03/04/2014
15Disallow: /youth/dissemination/
16Disallow: /youth/archive/
17Disallow: /youth/includes/
18Disallow: /youth/misc/
19Disallow: /youth/modules/
20Disallow: /youth/profiles/
21Disallow: /youth/themes/
22Disallow: /youth/cron.php
23Disallow: /youth/install.php
24Disallow: /youth/LICENSE.txt
25Disallow: /youth/xmlrpc.php
26Disallow: /youth/admin/
27Disallow: /youth/comment/reply/
28Disallow: /youth/filter/tips/
29Disallow: /youth/node/add/
30Disallow: /youth/search/
31Disallow: /youth/user/register/
32Disallow: /youth/user/password/
33Disallow: /youth/user/login/
34Disallow: /youth/user/logout/
35
36#IM0017899419 - 20/06/2019
37Crawl-delay: 10
38Disallow: /capacity4dev/includes/
39Disallow: /capacity4dev/misc/
40Disallow: /capacity4dev/modules/
41Disallow: /capacity4dev/profiles/
42Disallow: /capacity4dev/scripts/
43Disallow: /capacity4dev/themes/
44Disallow: /capacity4dev/CHANGELOG.txt
45Disallow: /capacity4dev/cron.php
46Disallow: /capacity4dev/INSTALL.mysql.txt
47Disallow: /capacity4dev/INSTALL.pgsql.txt
48Disallow: /capacity4dev/INSTALL.sqlite.txt
49Disallow: /capacity4dev/install.php
50Disallow: /capacity4dev/INSTALL.txt
51Disallow: /capacity4dev/LICENSE.txt
52Disallow: /capacity4dev/MAINTAINERS.txt
53Disallow: /capacity4dev/update.php
54Disallow: /capacity4dev/UPGRADE.txt
55Disallow: /capacity4dev/xmlrpc.php
56Disallow: /capacity4dev/admin/
57Disallow: /capacity4dev/comment/reply/
58Disallow: /capacity4dev/filter/tips/
59Disallow: /capacity4dev/node/add/
60Disallow: /capacity4dev/search/
61Disallow: /capacity4dev/user/register/
62Disallow: /capacity4dev/user/password/
63Disallow: /capacity4dev/user/login/
64Disallow: /capacity4dev/user/logout/
65Disallow: /capacity4dev/results-reporting-eud-or-hq-unit
66Disallow: /capacity4dev/eu-rfi
67Disallow: /capacity4dev/results_reporting_2013-14
68Disallow: /capacity4dev/results_reporting_2014-15
69Disallow: /capacity4dev/?q=admin/
70Disallow: /capacity4dev/?q=comment/reply/
71Disallow: /capacity4dev/?q=filter/tips/
72Disallow: /capacity4dev/?q=node/add/
73Disallow: /capacity4dev/?q=search/
74Disallow: /capacity4dev/?q=user/password/
75Disallow: /capacity4dev/?q=user/register/
76Disallow: /capacity4dev/?q=user/login/
77Disallow: /capacity4dev/?q=user/logout/
78Disallow: /capacity4dev/*/includes/
79Disallow: /capacity4dev/*/misc/
80Disallow: /capacity4dev/*/modules/
81Disallow: /capacity4dev/*/profiles/
82Disallow: /capacity4dev/*/scripts/
83Disallow: /capacity4dev/*/themes/
84Disallow: /capacity4dev/*/CHANGELOG.txt
85Disallow: /capacity4dev/*/cron.php
86Disallow: /capacity4dev/*/INSTALL.mysql.txt
87Disallow: /capacity4dev/*/INSTALL.pgsql.txt
88Disallow: /capacity4dev/*/INSTALL.sqlite.txt
89Disallow: /capacity4dev/*/install.php
90Disallow: /capacity4dev/*/INSTALL.txt
91Disallow: /capacity4dev/*/LICENSE.txt
92Disallow: /capacity4dev/*/MAINTAINERS.txt
93Disallow: /capacity4dev/*/update.php
94Disallow: /capacity4dev/*/UPGRADE.txt
95Disallow: /capacity4dev/*/xmlrpc.php
96Disallow: /capacity4dev/*/admin/
97Disallow: /capacity4dev/*/comment/reply/
98Disallow: /capacity4dev/*/filter/tips/
99Disallow: /capacity4dev/*/node/add/
100Disallow: /capacity4dev/*/search/
101Disallow: /capacity4dev/*/user/register/
102Disallow: /capacity4dev/*/user/password/
103Disallow: /capacity4dev/*/user/login/
104Disallow: /capacity4dev/*/user/logout/
105Disallow: /capacity4dev/*/?q=admin/
106Disallow: /capacity4dev/*/?q=comment/reply/
107Disallow: /capacity4dev/*/?q=filter/tips/
108Disallow: /capacity4dev/*/?q=node/add/
109Disallow: /capacity4dev/*/?q=search/
110Disallow: /capacity4dev/*/?q=user/password/
111Disallow: /capacity4dev/*/?q=user/register/
112Disallow: /capacity4dev/*/?q=user/login/
113Disallow: /capacity4dev/*/?q=user/logout/
114Disallow: /capacity4dev/flag/
115Disallow: /capacity4dev/?q=flag/
116Disallow: /capacity4dev/*/flag/
117Disallow: /capacity4dev/capacity4dev/flag/
118Disallow: /capacity4dev/*/?q=flag/
119Disallow: /capacity4dev/*/searchgroup/
120Disallow: /capacity4dev/events/
121Disallow: /capacity4dev/*/events/
122Disallow: /capacity4dev/*/blogs/
123Disallow: /capacity4dev/*/news/
124Disallow: /capacity4dev/*/discussions/
125Disallow: /capacity4dev/*/media/
126Disallow: /capacity4dev/*/documents/
127Disallow: /capacity4dev/*/library/
128Disallow: /capacity4dev/*/calendar/
129Disallow: /capacity4dev/*/members/
130Disallow: /capacity4dev/people/
131Disallow: /capacity4dev/people
132Disallow: /capacity4dev/user/
133Disallow: /capacity4dev/users/
134Disallow: /capacity4dev/*/members/
135Disallow: /capacity4dev/*/members
136Disallow: /capacity4dev/*/people/
137Disallow: /capacity4dev/*/people
138Disallow: /capacity4dev/*/user/
139Disallow: /capacity4dev/*/users/
140Disallow: /youreurope/citizensACC/
141Disallow: /youreurope/businessACC/
142Disallow: /youreurope/citizensDEV/
143Disallow: /youreurope/businessDEV/
What do the bots actually get?
This page reads robots.txt, which states what europa.eu 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 europa.eu block GPTBot?
No. europa.eu’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 europa.eu block ClaudeBot?
No. europa.eu’s robots.txt lets ClaudeBot crawl the site. ClaudeBot is Anthropic’s crawler for training data. Checked 9 November 2026.
Does europa.eu block Google-Extended?
No. europa.eu’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 europa.eu block PerplexityBot?
No. europa.eu’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 europa.eu?
Yes. europa.eu’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.