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robots.txt · checked 9 Nov 2026
Does ncsu.edu block AI crawlers?
We couldn’t check ncsu.edu: its /robots.txt address answers with a web page rather than a robots.txt file.
GPTBotUnknownOAI-SearchBotUnknownClaudeBotUnknownPerplexityBotUnknownGoogle-ExtendedUnknownCCBotUnknown- robots.txt
- www.ncsu.edu/robots.txt · its /robots.txt address answers with a web page rather than a robots.txt file
- llms.txt
- not checked
- Checked
- 9 November 2026, as canaicrawl. We check again every week.
What do the bots actually get?
This page reads robots.txt, which states what ncsu.edu 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, robots.txt couldn’t be read.