Who blocks AI · #1178 in the Majestic Million

robots.txt · checked 9 Nov 2026

Does notion.com block AI crawlers?

Yes. notion.com’s robots.txt blocks 2 of the 19 AI crawlers we track, including Meta-ExternalAgent and Amazonbot. Search engines such as Googlebot and Bingbot may crawl it.

GPTBotAllowed OAI-SearchBotAllowed ClaudeBotAllowed PerplexityBotAllowed Google-ExtendedAllowed CCBotAllowed

robots.txt: www.notion.com/robots.txt · 47 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	line 2 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Bingbot`	Microsoft	Allowed	line 2 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`DuckDuckBot`	DuckDuckGo	Allowed	line 2 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Applebot`	Apple	Allowed	line 2 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`PetalBot`	Huawei	Allowed	line 2 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`YandexBot`	Yandex	Allowed	line 2 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Baiduspider`	Baidu	Allowed	line 2 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`

AI search

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`OAI-SearchBot`	OpenAI	Allowed	line 2 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`PerplexityBot`	Perplexity	Allowed	line 2 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Claude-SearchBot`	Anthropic	Allowed	line 2 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`DuckAssistBot`	DuckDuckGo	Allowed	line 2 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Amazonbot`	Amazon	Blocked	line 21 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: Amazonbot`
`YouBot`	You.com	Allowed	line 2 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`

AI training

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`GPTBot`	OpenAI	Allowed	line 2 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`ClaudeBot`	Anthropic	Allowed	line 2 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Google-Extended`	Google	Allowed	line 2 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`CCBot`	Common Crawl	Allowed	line 2 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Applebot-Extended`	Apple	Allowed	line 2 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`GoogleOther`	Google	Allowed	line 2 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Meta-ExternalAgent`	Meta	Blocked	line 27 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: meta-externalagent`
`Bytespider`	ByteDance	Allowed	line 2 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`

User-triggered fetchers

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`ChatGPT-User`	OpenAI	Allowed	line 2 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Claude-User`	Anthropic	Allowed	line 2 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Perplexity-User`	Perplexity	Allowed	line 2 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`MistralAI-User`	Mistral	Allowed	line 2 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Meta-ExternalFetcher`	Meta	Allowed	line 2 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`

SEO tools

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`AhrefsBot`	Ahrefs	Blocked	line 18 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: AhrefsBot`
`SemrushBot`	Semrush	Blocked	line 30 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: SemrushBot`
`MJ12bot`	Majestic	Allowed	line 2 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`DotBot`	Moz	Blocked	line 33 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: dotbot`

View www.notion.com/robots.txt · 47 lines

1User-Agent: *

2Allow: /

3Disallow: /invite/

4Disallow: /*/invite/

5Disallow: /templates/search?query=*

6Disallow: /*/templates/search?query=*

7Disallow: /lp/webinars/

8Disallow: /lp/webinars/*

9Disallow: /_vercel/insights/view

10Disallow: /embed/*

11Disallow: /*/embed/*

12Disallow: /product/agents-homepage

14User-Agent: BLEXBot

15Disallow: /

17User-Agent: AhrefsBot

18Disallow: /

20User-Agent: Amazonbot

21Disallow: /

23User-Agent: Amzn-SearchBot

24Disallow: /

26User-Agent: meta-externalagent

27Disallow: /

29User-Agent: SemrushBot

30Disallow: /

32User-Agent: dotbot

33Disallow: /

35Sitemap: https://www.notion.com/sitemap.xml

36Sitemap: https://sitemaps.notion.com/sitemap-categories.xml

37Sitemap: https://sitemaps.notion.com/sitemap-collections.xml

38Sitemap: https://www.notion.com/sitemap-root.xml

39Sitemap: https://www.notion.com/blog/sitemap.xml

40Sitemap: https://www.notion.com/customers/sitemap.xml

41Sitemap: https://www.notion.com/help/sitemap.xml

42Sitemap: https://www.notion.com/md/sitemap.xml

43Sitemap: https://www.notion.com/releases/sitemap.xml

44Sitemap: https://www.notion.com/use-case/sitemap.xml

45Sitemap: https://www.notion.com/feature/sitemap.xml

46Sitemap: https://www.notion.com/front-static/sitemap.xml

What do the bots actually get?

This page reads robots.txt, which states what notion.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 notion.com block GPTBot?

No. notion.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 notion.com block ClaudeBot?

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

Does notion.com block Google-Extended?

No. notion.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 notion.com block PerplexityBot?

No. notion.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 notion.com?

Yes. notion.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.