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robots.txt · checked 9 Nov 2026

Does goethe.de block AI crawlers?

Yes. goethe.de’s robots.txt blocks 1 of the 19 AI crawlers we track, including Bytespider. It also blocks PetalBot among search engines.

GPTBotAllowed OAI-SearchBotAllowed ClaudeBotAllowed PerplexityBotAllowed Google-ExtendedAllowed CCBotAllowed

robots.txt: www.goethe.de/robots.txt · 58 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	Blocked	line 54 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: PetalBot`
`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	Blocked	line 54 · `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	Blocked	line 54 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: SemrushBot`
`MJ12bot`	Majestic	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`DotBot`	Moz	Blocked	line 54 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: DotBot`

View www.goethe.de/robots.txt · 58 lines

1#robots.txt for http://www.goethe.de/

3# Allow/disallow rules for all generic user agents

4User-agent: *

6Disallow: /*?wt_nl=

7Disallow: /*?wt_sc=

8Disallow: /*?fbclid=

9Disallow: /*?forceDesktop=

10Disallow: /*.pdf?*

12Disallow: /ins/*/myg.html

13Disallow: */mobilnavigation.html

15Disallow: /archiv/

16Disallow: /cgi-bin/

17Disallow: /services/

18Disallow: /kdf-server/

19Disallow: /mmo/priv/

20Disallow: /xxx/

21Disallow: /z/50/

22Disallow: /coe

23Disallow: /myg/

24Disallow: /suche/

25Disallow: /rest/

26Disallow: /test/

27Disallow: /prj/dli/de/

29Disallow: /pro/games/41/A1los/images/

30Disallow: /pro/games/41/A1los/audio/

33# Disallow the whole site for specific bots

34User-agent: Botify

35User-agent: Bytespider

36User-agent: DotBot

37User-agent: Lumar

38User-agent: MJ12bot

39User-agent: OnCrawl

40User-agent: PetalBot

41User-agent: rogerbot

42User-agent: RyteBot

43User-agent: SemrushBot

44User-agent: SemrushBot-SA

45User-agent: SemrushBot-BA

46User-agent: SemrushBot-SI

47User-agent: SemrushBot-SSRP

48User-agent: SemrushBot-ESI

49User-agent: SEO PowerSuite

50User-agent: SiteAuditBot

51User-agent: Sitebulb

52User-agent: SplitSignalBot

54Disallow: /

57# Sitemap

58Sitemap: https://www.goethe.de/sitemap.xml

What do the bots actually get?

This page reads robots.txt, which states what goethe.de 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 goethe.de block GPTBot?

No. goethe.de’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 goethe.de block ClaudeBot?

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

Does goethe.de block Google-Extended?

No. goethe.de’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 goethe.de block PerplexityBot?

No. goethe.de’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 goethe.de?

Yes. goethe.de’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.