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robots.txt · checked 9 Nov 2026

Does goodreads.com block AI crawlers?

Yes. goodreads.com’s robots.txt blocks 2 of the 19 AI crawlers we track, including GPTBot and CCBot. It also blocks Bingbot among search engines.

GPTBotBlockedOAI-SearchBotAllowedClaudeBotAllowedPerplexityBotAllowedGoogle-ExtendedAllowedCCBotBlocked
robots.txt
www.goodreads.com/robots.txt · 97 lines
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Checked
9 November 2026, as canaicrawl. We check again every week.

Every bot, and the line that decides

Search engines

BotOperatorrobots.txtDeciding line
GooglebotGoogleAllowedno rule matches the home page
BingbotMicrosoftBlockedline 7 · Disallow: / under User-agent: bingbot
DuckDuckBotDuckDuckGoAllowedno rule matches the home page
ApplebotAppleAllowedno rule matches the home page
PetalBotHuaweiAllowedno rule matches the home page
YandexBotYandexAllowedno rule matches the home page
BaiduspiderBaiduAllowedno rule matches the home page

AI search

BotOperatorrobots.txtDeciding line
OAI-SearchBotOpenAIAllowedno rule matches the home page
PerplexityBotPerplexityAllowedno rule matches the home page
Claude-SearchBotAnthropicAllowedno rule matches the home page
DuckAssistBotDuckDuckGoAllowedno rule matches the home page
AmazonbotAmazonAllowedno rule matches the home page
YouBotYou.comAllowedno rule matches the home page

AI training

BotOperatorrobots.txtDeciding line
GPTBotOpenAIBlockedline 10 · Disallow: / under User-agent: GPTBot
ClaudeBotAnthropicAllowedno rule matches the home page
Google-ExtendedGoogleAllowedno rule matches the home page
CCBotCommon CrawlBlockedline 13 · Disallow: / under User-agent: CCBot
Applebot-ExtendedAppleAllowedno rule matches the home page
GoogleOtherGoogleAllowedno rule matches the home page
Meta-ExternalAgentMetaAllowedno rule matches the home page
BytespiderByteDanceAllowedno rule matches the home page

User-triggered fetchers

BotOperatorrobots.txtDeciding line
ChatGPT-UserOpenAIAllowedno rule matches the home page
Claude-UserAnthropicAllowedno rule matches the home page
Perplexity-UserPerplexityAllowedno rule matches the home page
MistralAI-UserMistralAllowedno rule matches the home page
Meta-ExternalFetcherMetaAllowedno rule matches the home page

SEO tools

BotOperatorrobots.txtDeciding line
AhrefsBotAhrefsAllowedno rule matches the home page
SemrushBotSemrushAllowedno rule matches the home page
MJ12botMajesticAllowedno rule matches the home page
DotBotMozAllowedno rule matches the home page
View www.goodreads.com/robots.txt · 97 lines
1# See http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html for documentation on how to use the robots.txt file
2
3User-agent: bingbot
4Crawl-delay: 5
5
6User-agent: EtaoSpider
7Disallow: /
8
9User-agent: GPTBot
10Disallow: /
11
12User-agent: CCBot
13Disallow: /
14
15User-agent: AmazonAdBot
16Allow: /book/show
17Allow: /ebooks
18Allow: /photo/group/
19Allow: /search
20Allow: /user/year_in_books
21Allow: /videos
22
23User-agent: facebookexternalhit
24Allow: /user/year_in_books
25
26User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
27Disallow: /about/team_member/
28Disallow: /admin
29Disallow: /api
30Disallow: /blog/list_rss
31Disallow: /book/reviews/
32Disallow: /book_link/follow/
33Disallow: /buy_buttons/
34Disallow: /ebooks
35Disallow: /friend/add_as_friend
36Disallow: /home/index_rss
37Disallow: /oggiPlayerLoader.htm
38Disallow: /photo/group/
39Disallow: /quotes/list_rss
40Disallow: /review/list
41Disallow: /review/list_rss
42Disallow: /review/rate
43Disallow: /shelf/user_shelves
44Disallow: /tooltips
45Disallow: /track
46Disallow: /trivia/answer
47Disallow: /user/updates_rss
48Disallow: /*reviewFilters
49
50User-agent: *
51Allow: /work/editions
52Allow: /work/quotes
53Disallow: /about/team_member/
54Disallow: /admin
55Disallow: /api
56Disallow: /blog/list_rss
57Disallow: /book/reviews/
58Disallow: /book_link/follow/
59Disallow: /buy_buttons/
60Disallow: /ebooks
61Disallow: /friend/add_as_friend
62Disallow: /home/index_rss
63Disallow: /oggiPlayerLoader.htm
64Disallow: /photo/group/
65Disallow: /quotes/list_rss
66Disallow: /review/list
67Disallow: /review/list_rss
68Disallow: /review/rate
69Disallow: /review/show
70Disallow: /search
71Disallow: /shelf/user_shelves
72Disallow: /tooltips
73Disallow: /track
74Disallow: /trivia/answer
75Disallow: /user/updates_rss
76Disallow: /user/year_in_books
77Disallow: /videos/
78Disallow: /work
79Disallow: /*reviewFilters
80
81Sitemap: https://www.goodreads.com/siteindex.author.xml
82Sitemap: https://www.goodreads.com/siteindex.author_community_question.xml
83Sitemap: https://www.goodreads.com/siteindex.award.xml
84Sitemap: https://www.goodreads.com/siteindex.blog.xml
85Sitemap: https://www.goodreads.com/siteindex.book_community_question.xml
86Sitemap: https://www.goodreads.com/siteindex.genre.xml
87Sitemap: https://www.goodreads.com/siteindex.giveaway.xml
88Sitemap: https://www.goodreads.com/siteindex.group.xml
89Sitemap: https://www.goodreads.com/siteindex.index.xml
90Sitemap: https://www.goodreads.com/siteindex.interview.xml
91Sitemap: https://www.goodreads.com/siteindex.list.xml
92Sitemap: https://www.goodreads.com/siteindex.quote.xml
93Sitemap: https://www.goodreads.com/siteindex.quote_tag.xml
94Sitemap: https://www.goodreads.com/siteindex.related_work.xml
95Sitemap: https://www.goodreads.com/siteindex.topic.xml
96Sitemap: https://www.goodreads.com/siteindex.user.xml
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What do the bots actually get?

This page reads robots.txt, which states what goodreads.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

Questions

Does goodreads.com block GPTBot?

Yes. goodreads.com’s robots.txt disallows GPTBot from the whole site (line 10: 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 goodreads.com block ClaudeBot?

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

Does goodreads.com block Google-Extended?

No. goodreads.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 goodreads.com block PerplexityBot?

No. goodreads.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 goodreads.com?

Yes. goodreads.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.