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robots.txt · checked 9 Nov 2026

Does magnific.com block AI crawlers?

No. magnific.com’s robots.txt lets all 19 AI crawlers we track crawl the site. Search engines such as Googlebot and Bingbot may crawl it.

GPTBotAllowed OAI-SearchBotAllowed ClaudeBotAllowed PerplexityBotAllowed Google-ExtendedAllowed CCBotAllowed

robots.txt: www.magnific.com/robots.txt · 160 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	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	Allowed	no rule matches the home page

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.magnific.com/robots.txt · 160 lines

1# __ __ _ __ _

2# | \/ | (_)/ _(_)

3# | \ / | __ _ __ _ _ __ _| |_ _ ___

4# | |\/| |/ _` |/ _` | '_ \| | _| |/ __|

5# | | | | (_| | (_| | | | | | | | | (__

6# |_| |_|\__,_|\__, |_| |_|_|_| |_|\___|

7# __/ |

8# |___/

10User-agent: *

12# --- Rutas globales ---

13Disallow: /app/

14Disallow: /*/app/

15Disallow: /sitemaps/

16Disallow: /login

17Disallow: /contacto/

18Disallow: /contact/

19Disallow: /contact

20Disallow: /trk-download/

21Disallow: /ad/adserver.php

22Disallow: /advertisers/

23Disallow: /dmca_notification

24Disallow: /search?

25Disallow: /profile/payment/getstarted/*

26Disallow: /profile/license

27Disallow: /profile/downloads_limit

28Disallow: /xhr/

29Disallow: /media/js/translations.js

30Disallow: /download-limit

31Disallow: /download-file/

32Disallow: /redirect

33Disallow: /download/

34Disallow: /bmind

35Disallow: /language-switch?currentPath

36Disallow: /_ga

37Disallow: /photo-editor/*

38Disallow: /*/photo-editor/*

39Disallow: /mockup-editor/*

40Disallow: /*/mockup-editor/*

41Disallow: /public/locales

42Disallow: /*/public/locales

43Disallow: /designer/edit

44Disallow: /*/designer/edit

45Disallow: /_next/data

46Disallow: /api/video/*

48# --- Blog search (EN + ES) ---

49Disallow: /blog/?s=

50Disallow: /es/blog/?s=

52# --- Audio search (EN only) ---

53Disallow: /audio/music/search

54Disallow: /audio/sound-effects/search

56# --- Search (idiomas) ---

57Disallow: /*/search?

59# --- AI Icon Generator — versiones localizadas ---

60Disallow: /ai/icon-generator/tool

61Disallow: /es/ia/generador-iconos/herramienta

62Disallow: /de/ai/icon-generator/tool

63Disallow: /fr/ai/generateur-icones/outil

64Disallow: /it/ai/generatore-icone/strumento

65Disallow: /br/ai/gerador-icones/ferramenta

66Disallow: /nl/ai/icon-generator/tool

67Disallow: /pl/ai/generator-ikon/narzedzie

68Disallow: /ru/ai/icon-generator/tool

69Disallow: /zh/ai/圖標生成器/工具

70Disallow: /in/ai/आइकन-जनरेटर/टूल

71Disallow: /cz/ai/generator-ikon/nastroj

72Disallow: /dk/ai/ikongenerator/vaerktoej

73Disallow: /fi/ai/ikonigeneraattori/tyokalu

74Disallow: /no/ai/ikon-generator/verktoy

75Disallow: /se/ai/ikongenererare/verktyg

76Disallow: /tr/ai/simge-olusturucu/arac

77Disallow: /idn/ai/generator-ikon/alat

78Disallow: /vn/ai/trinh-tao-bieu-tuong/cong-cu

79Disallow: /th/ai/เครื่องมือสร้างไอคอน/เครื่องมือ

80Disallow: /cn/ai/图标生成器/工具

81Disallow: /jp/ai/icon-generator/tool

82Disallow: /kr/ai/icon-generator/tool

84# Las rutas no-ASCII van percent-encoded, copiadas literal de

85# @i18n/config/data/<locale>/routes.json. Los parsers de robots.txt comparan

86# byte a byte sin normalizar Unicode (RFC 9309 §2.2.2), así que escribirlas en

87# UTF-8 plano es frágil: p. ej. el slug hi-IN lleva U+095E (फ़ precompuesto) y

88# cualquier editor que normalice lo parte en U+092B U+093C, rompiendo la regla

89# en silencio. No las "limpies" a UTF-8.

90# --- Detalle de imágenes IA premium — versiones localizadas ---

91Disallow: /premium-ai-image/

92Disallow: /es/imagen-ia-premium/

93Disallow: /de/premium-ki-bild/

94Disallow: /fr/images-ia-premium/

95Disallow: /it/immagine-ia-premium/

96Disallow: /br/imagem-ia-premium/

97Disallow: /nl/premium-ai-afbeelding/

98Disallow: /pl/obraz-premium-ai/

99Disallow: /ru/premium-ai-image/

100Disallow: /zh/premium%E4%BA%BA%E5%B7%A5%E6%99%BA%E8%83%BD%E5%9C%96%E5%83%8F/

101Disallow: /in/%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%AE-ai-%E0%A4%87%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%9C/

102Disallow: /cz/ai-obrazek-premium/

103Disallow: /dk/premium-ai-billede/

104Disallow: /fi/premium-tekoalykuva/

105Disallow: /no/premium-ai-bilde/

106Disallow: /se/premium-ai-bild/

107Disallow: /tr/premium-ai-goruntusu/

108Disallow: /idn/gambar-ai-premium/

109Disallow: /vn/hinh-anh-ai-premium/

110Disallow: /th/%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B9%E0%B8%9B%E0%B8%A0%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%9Eai%E0%B8%9E%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B5%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%A1%E0%B8%B5%E0%B9%88%E0%B8%A2%E0%B8%A1/

111Disallow: /cn/%E7%B2%BE%E9%80%89ai%E5%9B%BE%E7%89%87/

112Disallow: /jp/premium-ai-image/

113Disallow: /kr/premium-ai-image/

114

115# --- Detalle de imágenes IA gratuitas — versiones localizadas ---

116Disallow: /free-ai-image/

117Disallow: /es/imagen-ia-gratis/

118Disallow: /de/kostenloses-ki-bild/

119Disallow: /fr/images-ia-gratuites/

120Disallow: /it/immagine-ia-gratis/

121Disallow: /br/imagem-ia-gratis/

122Disallow: /nl/gratis-ai-afbeelding/

123Disallow: /pl/darmowy-obraz-ai/

124Disallow: /ru/free-ai-image/

125Disallow: /zh/%E5%85%8D%E8%B2%BB%E4%BA%BA%E5%B7%A5%E6%99%BA%E8%83%BD%E5%9C%96%E5%83%8F/

126Disallow: /in/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%81%E0%A5%9E%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A4-ai-%E0%A4%87%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%9C/

127Disallow: /cz/ai-obrazek-zdarma/

128Disallow: /dk/gratis-ai-billede/

129Disallow: /fi/ilmainen-tekoalykuva/

130Disallow: /no/gratis-ai-bilde/

131Disallow: /se/gratis-ai-bild/

132Disallow: /tr/ucretsiz-ai-goruntusu/

133Disallow: /idn/gambar-ai-gratis/

134Disallow: /vn/hinh-anh-ai-mien-phi/

135Disallow: /th/%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B9%E0%B8%9B%E0%B8%A0%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%9Eai%E0%B8%9F%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B5/

136Disallow: /cn/%E5%85%8D%E8%B4%B9ai%E5%9B%BE%E7%89%87/

137Disallow: /jp/free-ai-image/

138Disallow: /kr/free-ai-image/

139

140# --- Idiomas bloqueados al completo ---

141Disallow: /ua/

142Disallow: /ph/

143Disallow: /ms/

144

145# --- Google AdSense ---

146User-agent: Mediapartners-Google

147Allow: /search

148

149# --- Adsbot-Google ---

150User-agent: Adsbot-Google

151Allow: /search

152

153# --- Twitter Bot ---

154User-agent: Twitterbot

155Allow: /

156

157# --- Sitemap ---

158Sitemap: https://www.magnific.com/sitemap.xml

159Sitemap: https://www.magnific.com/blog-sitemap.xml

160

What do the bots actually get?

This page reads robots.txt, which states what magnific.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 magnific.com Test a path in the robots.txt tester

History

19 October 2026: first checked.

Questions

Does magnific.com block GPTBot?

No. magnific.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 magnific.com block ClaudeBot?

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

Does magnific.com block Google-Extended?

No. magnific.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 magnific.com block PerplexityBot?

No. magnific.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 magnific.com?

Yes. magnific.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.