Who blocks AI · #1085 in the Majestic Million

robots.txt · checked 9 Nov 2026

Does jpost.com block AI crawlers?

No. jpost.com’s robots.txt lets all 19 AI crawlers we track crawl the site, though it keeps OAI-SearchBot, GPTBot and 3 more out of some paths. Search engines such as Googlebot and Bingbot may crawl it.

GPTBotPartly blocked OAI-SearchBotPartly blocked ClaudeBotAllowed PerplexityBotAllowed Google-ExtendedAllowed CCBotAllowed

robots.txt: www.jpost.com/robots.txt · 121 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	Partly blocked	line 2 · `Disallow: /showimage.ashx*` line 3 · `Disallow: /premiumlogin/` and 9 more
`Bingbot`	Microsoft	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`DuckDuckBot`	DuckDuckGo	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Applebot`	Apple	Partly blocked	line 2 · `Disallow: /showimage.ashx*` line 3 · `Disallow: /premiumlogin/` and 9 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 57 · `Disallow: /showimage.ashx*` line 58 · `Disallow: /premiumlogin/` and 9 more
`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	Partly blocked	line 27 · `Disallow: /showimage.ashx*` line 28 · `Disallow: /premiumlogin/` and 9 more
`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	Partly blocked	line 42 · `Disallow: /showimage.ashx*` line 43 · `Disallow: /premiumlogin/` and 20 more
`Claude-User`	Anthropic	Partly blocked	line 72 · `Disallow: /showimage.ashx*` line 73 · `Disallow: /premiumlogin/` and 9 more
`Perplexity-User`	Perplexity	Partly blocked	line 104 · `Disallow: /showimage.ashx*` line 105 · `Disallow: /premiumlogin/` and 9 more
`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.jpost.com/robots.txt · 121 lines

1User-agent: Googlebot

2Disallow: /showimage.ashx*

3Disallow: /premiumlogin/

4Disallow: /servlet/

5Disallow: /printarticle.aspx*

6Disallow: /pdf/

7Disallow: /directory/

8Disallow: /search;query

9Disallow: /comments/

10Disallow: /test-ads/

11Disallow: /insights/

12Disallow: /insights/

15User-agent: Twitterbot

16Allow: /kabbalah

17Allow: /cybertech

18Disallow: /trackback/

19Disallow: /search;query

20Disallow: /comments/

23# Allow agentic-AI users

25User-agent: GPTBot

26Allow: /

27Disallow: /showimage.ashx*

28Disallow: /premiumlogin/

30Disallow: /servlet/

31Disallow: /printarticle.aspx*

32Disallow: /pdf/

33Disallow: /directory/

34Disallow: /search;query

35Disallow: /comments/

36Disallow: /test-ads/

37Disallow: /insights/

38Disallow: /insights/

40User-agent: ChatGPT-User

41Allow: /

42Disallow: /showimage.ashx*

43Disallow: /premiumlogin/

45Disallow: /servlet/

46Disallow: /printarticle.aspx*

47Disallow: /pdf/

48Disallow: /directory/

49Disallow: /search;query

50Disallow: /comments/

51Disallow: /test-ads/

52Disallow: /insights/

53Disallow: /insights/

55User-agent: OAI-SearchBot

56Allow: /

57Disallow: /showimage.ashx*

58Disallow: /premiumlogin/

60Disallow: /servlet/

61Disallow: /printarticle.aspx*

62Disallow: /pdf/

63Disallow: /directory/

64Disallow: /search;query

65Disallow: /comments/

66Disallow: /test-ads/

67Disallow: /insights/

68Disallow: /insights/

70User-agent: Claude-User

71Allow: /

72Disallow: /showimage.ashx*

73Disallow: /premiumlogin/

74Disallow: /servlet/

75Disallow: /printarticle.aspx*

76Disallow: /pdf/

77Disallow: /directory/

78Disallow: /search;query

79Disallow: /comments/

80Disallow: /test-ads/

81Disallow: /insights/

82Disallow: /insights/

84User-agent: *

85Allow: /ads.txt

87User-agent: ChatGPT-User

88Allow: /

89Disallow: /showimage.ashx*

90Disallow: /premiumlogin/

92Disallow: /servlet/

93Disallow: /printarticle.aspx*

94Disallow: /pdf/

95Disallow: /directory/

96Disallow: /search;query

97Disallow: /comments/

98Disallow: /test-ads/

99Disallow: /insights/

100Disallow: /insights/

101

102User-agent: Perplexity-User

103Allow: /

104Disallow: /showimage.ashx*

105Disallow: /premiumlogin/

106

107Disallow: /servlet/

108Disallow: /printarticle.aspx*

109Disallow: /pdf/

110Disallow: /directory/

111Disallow: /search;query

112Disallow: /comments/

113Disallow: /test-ads/

114Disallow: /insights/

115Disallow: /insights/

116

117

118Sitemap: https://www.jpost.com/GoogleNewsSiteMap/GNSiteMap

119Sitemap: https://www.jpost.com/jpgooglesitemap/sitemapindex.xml

120Sitemap: https://www.jpost.com/jpgooglesitemap/latestarticles

121

What do the bots actually get?

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

Questions

Does jpost.com block GPTBot?

Partly. jpost.com’s robots.txt keeps GPTBot out of some paths, such as /showimage.ashx*, and lets it crawl the rest. GPTBot is OpenAI’s crawler for training data; blocking it doesn’t affect ChatGPT search, which uses OAI-SearchBot. Checked 9 November 2026.

Does jpost.com block ClaudeBot?

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

Does jpost.com block Google-Extended?

No. jpost.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 jpost.com block PerplexityBot?

No. jpost.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 jpost.com?

Partly. jpost.com’s robots.txt keeps OAI-SearchBot out of some paths, such as /showimage.ashx*, 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.