Who blocks AI · #963 in the Majestic Million
Does iheart.com block AI crawlers?
Yes. iheart.com’s robots.txt blocks 7 of the 19 AI crawlers we track, including GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended and 4 more. Search engines such as Googlebot and Bingbot may crawl it.
GPTBotBlockedOAI-SearchBotPartly blockedClaudeBotBlockedPerplexityBotPartly blockedGoogle-ExtendedBlockedCCBotBlocked- robots.txt
- www.iheart.com/robots.txt · 54 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 | 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 | Partly blocked | line 37 · Disallow: /*/now-playing$ line 38 · Disallow: /*/now-playing? and 11 more |
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 37 · Disallow: /*/now-playing$ line 38 · Disallow: /*/now-playing? and 11 more |
PerplexityBot | Perplexity | Partly blocked | line 37 · Disallow: /*/now-playing$ line 38 · Disallow: /*/now-playing? and 11 more |
Claude-SearchBot | Anthropic | Partly blocked | line 37 · Disallow: /*/now-playing$ line 38 · Disallow: /*/now-playing? and 11 more |
DuckAssistBot | DuckDuckGo | Allowed | no rule matches the home page |
Amazonbot | Amazon | Partly blocked | line 37 · Disallow: /*/now-playing$ line 38 · Disallow: /*/now-playing? and 11 more |
YouBot | You.com | Allowed | no rule matches the home page |
AI training
| Bot | Operator | robots.txt | Deciding line |
|---|---|---|---|
GPTBot | OpenAI | Blocked | line 23 · Disallow: / under User-agent: GPTBot |
ClaudeBot | Anthropic | Blocked | line 23 · Disallow: / under User-agent: ClaudeBot |
Google-Extended | Blocked | line 23 · Disallow: / under User-agent: Google-Extended | |
CCBot | Common Crawl | Blocked | line 23 · Disallow: / under User-agent: CCBot |
Applebot-Extended | Apple | Blocked | line 23 · Disallow: / under User-agent: Applebot-Extended |
GoogleOther | Allowed | no rule matches the home page | |
Meta-ExternalAgent | Meta | Blocked | line 23 · Disallow: / under User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent |
Bytespider | ByteDance | Blocked | line 23 · Disallow: / under User-agent: Bytespider |
User-triggered fetchers
| Bot | Operator | robots.txt | Deciding line |
|---|---|---|---|
ChatGPT-User | OpenAI | Partly blocked | line 37 · Disallow: /*/now-playing$ line 38 · Disallow: /*/now-playing? and 11 more |
Claude-User | Anthropic | Partly blocked | line 37 · Disallow: /*/now-playing$ line 38 · Disallow: /*/now-playing? and 11 more |
Perplexity-User | Perplexity | Partly blocked | line 37 · Disallow: /*/now-playing$ line 38 · Disallow: /*/now-playing? and 11 more |
MistralAI-User | Mistral | Allowed | no rule matches the home page |
Meta-ExternalFetcher | Meta | Partly blocked | line 37 · Disallow: /*/now-playing$ line 38 · Disallow: /*/now-playing? and 11 more |
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.iheart.com/robots.txt · 54 lines
What do the bots actually get?
This page reads robots.txt, which states what iheart.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.
- 9 November 2026: now blocks part of the site to Applebot; now blocks part of the site to OAI-SearchBot; now blocks part of the site to PerplexityBot; now blocks part of the site to Claude-SearchBot; now blocks part of the site to Amazonbot; started blocking GPTBot; started blocking ClaudeBot; started blocking Google-Extended; started blocking CCBot; started blocking Applebot-Extended; started blocking Meta-ExternalAgent; started blocking Bytespider; now blocks part of the site to ChatGPT-User; now blocks part of the site to Claude-User; now blocks part of the site to Perplexity-User; now blocks part of the site to Meta-ExternalFetcher.
Questions
Does iheart.com block GPTBot?
Yes. iheart.com’s robots.txt disallows GPTBot from the whole site (line 23: 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 iheart.com block ClaudeBot?
Yes. iheart.com’s robots.txt disallows ClaudeBot from the whole site (line 23: Disallow: /). ClaudeBot is Anthropic’s crawler for training data. Checked 9 November 2026.
Does iheart.com block Google-Extended?
Yes. iheart.com’s robots.txt disallows Google-Extended from the whole site (line 23: Disallow: /). 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 iheart.com block PerplexityBot?
Partly. iheart.com’s robots.txt keeps PerplexityBot out of some paths, such as /*/now-playing$, and lets it crawl the rest. PerplexityBot is the crawler that indexes pages for Perplexity’s answers. Checked 9 November 2026.
Can ChatGPT search find iheart.com?
Partly. iheart.com’s robots.txt keeps OAI-SearchBot out of some paths, such as /*/now-playing$, 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.