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robots.txt · checked 9 Nov 2026

Does intuit.com block AI crawlers?

No. intuit.com’s robots.txt lets all 19 AI crawlers we track crawl the site. It also blocks Baiduspider among search engines.

GPTBotAllowed OAI-SearchBotAllowed ClaudeBotAllowed PerplexityBotAllowed Google-ExtendedAllowed CCBotAllowed

robots.txt: www.intuit.com/robots.txt · 81 lines
llms.txt: found
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	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`YandexBot`	Yandex	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Baiduspider`	Baidu	Blocked	line 8 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: Baiduspider`

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	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 www.intuit.com/robots.txt · 81 lines

1User-agent: Sogou Pic Spider/3.0(+http://www.sogou.com/docs/help/webmasters.htm#07)

2Disallow: /

3#YisouSpider China

4User-agent: YisouSpider

5Disallow: /

7User-agent: Baiduspider

8Disallow: /

10User-agent: Baiduspider+

11Disallow: /

13User-agent: Baiduspider+(+http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.htm)

14Disallow: /

16User-agent: Baiduspider/2.0;+http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html

17Disallow: /

19User-agent: Baiduspider/2.0

20Disallow: /

22User-agent: +Baiduspider

23Disallow: /

25User-agent: +Baiduspider/2.0

26Disallow: /

28User-agent: +Baiduspider/2.0;++http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html

29Disallow: /

31User-agent: Mozilla/5.0(compatible; Baiduspider/2.0; +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html)

32Disallow: /

34User-agent: Baiduspider-image+(+http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.htm)

35Disallow: /

37User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Sosospider/2.0; +http://help.soso.com/webspider.htm)

38Disallow: /

40User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; JikeSpider; +http://shoulu.jike.com/spider.html)

41Disallow: /

43User-agent: Twitterbot

44Allow: /oicms/

46User-agent: *

47Disallow: /oicms/

48Disallow: /ca/oicms/

49Disallow: /fr-ca/oicms/

50Disallow: /in/oicms/

51Disallow: /content/intuit_com/

52Disallow: /company/press-room/press-releases/

53Disallow: /ca/company/press-room/press-releases/

54Disallow: /fr-ca/company/press-room/press-releases/

55Disallow: /commerce/

56Disallow: /search/?search_term=*

57Disallow: /ai/labs

59Sitemap: https://www.intuit.com/sitemap.xml

60Sitemap: https://www.intuit.com/ca/sitemap.xml

61Sitemap: https://www.intuit.com/fr-ca/sitemap.xml

62Sitemap: https://www.intuit.com/in/sitemap.xml

63Sitemap: https://www.intuit.com/blog/sitemap.xml

65# Intuit is hiring and

66# looking for talented people.

67#

68# Learn more at:

69# https://www.intuit.com/careers/

70#

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What do the bots actually get?

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

Run a live check on intuit.com Test a path in the robots.txt tester

History

19 October 2026: first checked.

Questions

Does intuit.com block GPTBot?

No. intuit.com’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 intuit.com block ClaudeBot?

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

Does intuit.com block Google-Extended?

No. intuit.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 intuit.com block PerplexityBot?

No. intuit.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 intuit.com?

Yes. intuit.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.