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robots.txt · checked 9 Nov 2026

Does ilo.org block AI crawlers?

No. ilo.org’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
www.ilo.org/robots.txt · 102 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
BingbotMicrosoftAllowedno rule matches the home page
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
GPTBotOpenAIAllowedno rule matches the home page
ClaudeBotAnthropicAllowedno rule matches the home page
Google-ExtendedGoogleAllowedno rule matches the home page
CCBotCommon CrawlAllowedno rule matches the home page
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.ilo.org/robots.txt · 102 lines
1
2#
3# robots.txt
4#
5# This file is to prevent the crawling and indexing of certain parts
6# of your site by web crawlers and spiders run by sites like Yahoo!
7# and Google. By telling these "robots" where not to go on your site,
8# you save bandwidth and server resources.
9#
10# This file will be ignored unless it is at the root of your host:
11# Used: http://example.com/robots.txt
12# Ignored: http://example.com/site/robots.txt
13#
14# For more information about the robots.txt standard, see:
15# http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html
16
17User-agent: *
18# CSS, JS, Images
19Allow: /core/*.css$
20Allow: /core/*.css?
21Allow: /core/*.js$
22Allow: /core/*.js?
23Allow: /core/*.avif
24Allow: /core/*.gif
25Allow: /core/*.jpg
26Allow: /core/*.jpeg
27Allow: /core/*.png
28Allow: /core/*.svg
29Allow: /core/*.webp
30Allow: /profiles/*.css$
31Allow: /profiles/*.css?
32Allow: /profiles/*.js$
33Allow: /profiles/*.js?
34Allow: /profiles/*.avif
35Allow: /profiles/*.gif
36Allow: /profiles/*.jpg
37Allow: /profiles/*.jpeg
38Allow: /profiles/*.png
39Allow: /profiles/*.svg
40Allow: /profiles/*.webp
41# Directories
42Disallow: /core/
43Disallow: /profiles/
44# Files
45Disallow: /README.md
46Disallow: /composer/Metapackage/README.txt
47Disallow: /composer/Plugin/ProjectMessage/README.md
48Disallow: /composer/Plugin/Scaffold/README.md
49Disallow: /composer/Plugin/VendorHardening/README.txt
50Disallow: /composer/Template/README.txt
51Disallow: /modules/README.txt
52Disallow: /sites/README.txt
53Disallow: /themes/README.txt
54# Paths (clean URLs)
55Disallow: /admin/
56Disallow: /comment/reply/
57Disallow: /filter/tips
58Disallow: /node/add/
59Disallow: /search/
60Disallow: /search?
61Disallow: /user/register
62Disallow: /user/password
63Disallow: /user/login
64Disallow: /user/logout
65Disallow: /media/oembed
66Disallow: /*/media/oembed
67# Paths (no clean URLs)
68Disallow: /index.php/admin/
69Disallow: /index.php/comment/reply/
70Disallow: /index.php/filter/tips
71Disallow: /index.php/node/add/
72Disallow: /index.php/search/
73Disallow: /index.php/search?
74Disallow: /index.php/user/password
75Disallow: /index.php/user/register
76Disallow: /index.php/user/login
77Disallow: /index.php/user/logout
78Disallow: /index.php/media/oembed
79Disallow: /index.php/*/media/oembed
80
81# Content Signals: https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-content-signals-policy/
82# search=yes: index and make the content discoverable.
83# ai-input=yes: content may be provided to an AI model as input (e.g. RAG).
84# ai-train=no: do not use the content to train or fine-tune AI models.
85# use=reference: retain/index/reference/cite rather than reproduce.
86Content-Signal: search=yes,ai-input=yes,ai-train=no,use=reference
87
88Disallow: /search
89Disallow: /*/search
90Disallow: /taxonomy/term/*
91Disallow: /*/taxonomy/term/*
92
93Disallow: /index.php/search
94Disallow: /index.php/*/search/
95Disallow: /index.php/taxonomy/term/*
96Disallow: /index.php/*/taxonomy/term/*
97
98# Sitemap link to help crawlers find your site's content more easily
99Sitemap: https://www.ilo.org/sitemap.xml
100
101# Crawl-delay (optional) - Slows down bots that are too aggressive
102Crawl-delay: 10

What do the bots actually get?

This page reads robots.txt, which states what ilo.org 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 ilo.org block GPTBot?

No. ilo.org’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 ilo.org block ClaudeBot?

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

Does ilo.org block Google-Extended?

No. ilo.org’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 ilo.org block PerplexityBot?

No. ilo.org’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 ilo.org?

Yes. ilo.org’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.