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robots.txt · checked 9 Nov 2026

Does notion.so block AI crawlers?

Yes. notion.so’s robots.txt blocks 1 of the 19 AI crawlers we track, including Amazonbot. Search engines such as Googlebot and Bingbot may crawl it.

GPTBotAllowed OAI-SearchBotAllowed ClaudeBotAllowed PerplexityBotAllowed Google-ExtendedAllowed CCBotAllowed

robots.txt: www.notion.so/robots.txt · 43 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 5 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Bingbot`	Microsoft	Allowed	line 5 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`DuckDuckBot`	DuckDuckGo	Allowed	line 5 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Applebot`	Apple	Allowed	line 5 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`PetalBot`	Huawei	Allowed	line 5 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`YandexBot`	Yandex	Allowed	line 5 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Baiduspider`	Baidu	Allowed	line 5 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`

AI search

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`OAI-SearchBot`	OpenAI	Allowed	line 5 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`PerplexityBot`	Perplexity	Allowed	line 5 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Claude-SearchBot`	Anthropic	Allowed	line 5 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`DuckAssistBot`	DuckDuckGo	Allowed	line 5 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Amazonbot`	Amazon	Blocked	line 25 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: Amazonbot`
`YouBot`	You.com	Allowed	line 5 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`

AI training

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`GPTBot`	OpenAI	Allowed	line 5 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`ClaudeBot`	Anthropic	Allowed	line 5 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Google-Extended`	Google	Allowed	line 5 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`CCBot`	Common Crawl	Allowed	line 5 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Applebot-Extended`	Apple	Allowed	line 5 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`GoogleOther`	Google	Allowed	line 5 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Meta-ExternalAgent`	Meta	Allowed	line 5 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Bytespider`	ByteDance	Allowed	line 5 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`

User-triggered fetchers

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`ChatGPT-User`	OpenAI	Allowed	line 5 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Claude-User`	Anthropic	Allowed	line 5 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Perplexity-User`	Perplexity	Allowed	line 5 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`MistralAI-User`	Mistral	Allowed	line 5 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Meta-ExternalFetcher`	Meta	Allowed	line 5 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`

SEO tools

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`AhrefsBot`	Ahrefs	Blocked	line 22 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: AhrefsBot`
`SemrushBot`	Semrush	Blocked	line 28 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: SemrushBot`
`MJ12bot`	Majestic	Allowed	line 5 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`DotBot`	Moz	Blocked	line 31 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: dotbot`

View www.notion.so/robots.txt · 43 lines

1# Notion is hiring!

2# Check out our open roles at https://www.notion.so/careers

4User-agent: *

5Allow: /

6Disallow: /invite/

7Disallow: /*/invite/

8Disallow: /templates/search?query=*

9Disallow: /*/templates/search?query=*

10Disallow: /experiment/*

11Disallow: /*/experiment/*

12Disallow: /lp/webinars/

13Disallow: /lp/webinars/*

14Disallow: /_vercel/insights/view

15Disallow: /embed/*

16Disallow: /*/embed/*

18User-agent: BLEXBot

19Disallow: /

21User-agent: AhrefsBot

22Disallow: /

24User-agent: Amazonbot

25Disallow: /

27User-agent: SemrushBot

28Disallow: /

30User-agent: dotbot

31Disallow: /

33Sitemap: https://www.notion.com/sitemap.xml

34Sitemap: https://www.notion.com/blog/sitemap.xml

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

36Sitemap: https://www.notion.com/help/sitemap.xml

37Sitemap: https://www.notion.com/md/sitemap.xml

38Sitemap: https://www.notion.com/pages/sitemap.xml

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

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

41Sitemap: https://www.notion.com/use-case/sitemap.xml

42Sitemap: https://sitemaps.notion.com/sitemap-categories.xml

43Sitemap: https://sitemaps.notion.com/sitemap-collections.xml

What do the bots actually get?

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

No. notion.so’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.so block ClaudeBot?

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

Does notion.so block Google-Extended?

No. notion.so’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.so block PerplexityBot?

No. notion.so’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.so?

Yes. notion.so’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.