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robots.txt · checked 9 Nov 2026

Does nvidia.com block AI crawlers?

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

GPTBotAllowedOAI-SearchBotAllowedClaudeBotAllowedPerplexityBotAllowedGoogle-ExtendedAllowedCCBotAllowed
robots.txt
www.nvidia.com/robots.txt · 113 lines
llms.txt
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Checked
9 November 2026, as canaicrawl. We check again every week.

Every bot, and the line that decides

Search engines

BotOperatorrobots.txtDeciding line
GooglebotGoogleAllowedline 40 · Allow: / under User-agent: *
BingbotMicrosoftAllowedline 40 · Allow: / under User-agent: *
DuckDuckBotDuckDuckGoAllowedline 40 · Allow: / under User-agent: *
ApplebotAppleAllowedline 40 · Allow: / under User-agent: *
PetalBotHuaweiAllowedline 40 · Allow: / under User-agent: *
YandexBotYandexAllowedline 40 · Allow: / under User-agent: *
BaiduspiderBaiduAllowedline 40 · Allow: / under User-agent: *

AI search

BotOperatorrobots.txtDeciding line
OAI-SearchBotOpenAIAllowedline 40 · Allow: / under User-agent: *
PerplexityBotPerplexityAllowedline 40 · Allow: / under User-agent: *
Claude-SearchBotAnthropicAllowedline 40 · Allow: / under User-agent: *
DuckAssistBotDuckDuckGoAllowedline 40 · Allow: / under User-agent: *
AmazonbotAmazonAllowedline 40 · Allow: / under User-agent: *
YouBotYou.comAllowedline 40 · Allow: / under User-agent: *

AI training

BotOperatorrobots.txtDeciding line
GPTBotOpenAIAllowedline 40 · Allow: / under User-agent: *
ClaudeBotAnthropicAllowedline 40 · Allow: / under User-agent: *
Google-ExtendedGoogleAllowedline 40 · Allow: / under User-agent: *
CCBotCommon CrawlAllowedline 40 · Allow: / under User-agent: *
Applebot-ExtendedAppleAllowedline 40 · Allow: / under User-agent: *
GoogleOtherGoogleAllowedline 40 · Allow: / under User-agent: *
Meta-ExternalAgentMetaAllowedline 40 · Allow: / under User-agent: *
BytespiderByteDanceAllowedline 40 · Allow: / under User-agent: *

User-triggered fetchers

BotOperatorrobots.txtDeciding line
ChatGPT-UserOpenAIAllowedline 40 · Allow: / under User-agent: *
Claude-UserAnthropicAllowedline 40 · Allow: / under User-agent: *
Perplexity-UserPerplexityAllowedline 40 · Allow: / under User-agent: *
MistralAI-UserMistralAllowedline 40 · Allow: / under User-agent: *
Meta-ExternalFetcherMetaAllowedline 40 · Allow: / under User-agent: *

SEO tools

BotOperatorrobots.txtDeciding line
AhrefsBotAhrefsAllowedline 40 · Allow: / under User-agent: *
SemrushBotSemrushAllowedline 40 · Allow: / under User-agent: *
MJ12botMajesticAllowedline 40 · Allow: / under User-agent: *
DotBotMozAllowedline 40 · Allow: / under User-agent: *
View www.nvidia.com/robots.txt · 113 lines
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2# Welcome to NVIDIA
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22#
23# We dig it when people read our code! Check out the jobs while you're here.
24# https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/about-nvidia/careers/
25#
26# Or check out our YouTube channel for our latest
27# https://www.youtube.com/user/nvidia
28#
29# Last updated 11 Aug 2026 by RR
30#
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32Sitemap: https://www.nvidia.com/sitemap_index.xml
33LLMs.txt: https://www.nvidia.com/llms.txt
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35
36# AI / LLM crawlers & fetchers
37
38User-agent: *
39Content-Signal: ai-train=yes, search=yes, ai-input=yes
40Allow: /
41
42
43# Disallow Rules
44
45User-agent: *
46
47# Gated Content
48Disallow: /content/g/*
49Disallow: /content/gated-pdfs/*
50Disallow: /content/*/gated-resources/*
51Disallow: /content/*/gated-pdfs/*
52Disallow: /gated-resources/*
53
54# GF Forums
55Disallow: /*?topicPage=
56Disallow: /*&topicPage=
57Disallow: /*?commentPage=
58Disallow: /*&commentPage=
59
60# Account & Authentication
61Disallow: /*/training/academy/auth/
62Disallow: /*/training/academy/login/
63
64Disallow: /admin/
65Disallow: /attach/
66Disallow: /content/experience-fragments/*
67Disallow: /content/forms/
68Disallow: /content/license/driver_license.aspx
69Disallow: /content/nvidiaGDC.*\.(?!png|jpg|svg).+$
70Disallow: /content/temp/*
71Disallow: /ddl2*
72Disallow: /email-verify/*
73Disallow: /forms/*
74Disallow: /*/geforce/release-notes/GFE/Rich/*
75Disallow: /*/geforce/release-notes/GFN/Rich/*
76Disallow: /*/geforce/release-notes/GFNB/Rich/*
77Disallow: /*/geforce/comparisons/*
78Disallow: /*/geforce/billboards/*
79Disallow: /*/geforce/news/gfecnt/*
80Disallow: /processFind*
81Disallow: /props/
82Disallow: /*.swf$
83
84# Parameters
85Disallow: /*accessToken=*
86Disallow: /*cid=*
87Disallow: /*eid=*
88Disallow: /*hstc=*
89Disallow: /*jso=*
90Disallow: /*link=*
91Disallow: /*lx=*
92Disallow: /*ncid=*
93Disallow: /*nv_excludes=*
94Disallow: /*nvid=*
95Disallow: /*page=*
96Disallow: /*ref=*
97Disallow: /*srsltid=*
98Disallow: /*section=*
99Disallow: /*target=*
100Disallow: /*topicpage=*
101Disallow: /*utm*
102Disallow: /*search.industrysegment=*
103Disallow: /*search.keytheme=*
104Disallow: /*search.sessiontype=*
105Disallow: /*search.technicallevel=*
106Disallow: /*search.productstechnology=*
107
108# GTC Fixes
109
110Disallow: /*[?&]regcode=*
111Disallow: /*[?&]wcmmode=*
112Disallow: /*/gtc/gtc-chatbot/*
113

What do the bots actually get?

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

Questions

Does nvidia.com block GPTBot?

No. nvidia.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 nvidia.com block ClaudeBot?

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

Does nvidia.com block Google-Extended?

No. nvidia.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 nvidia.com block PerplexityBot?

No. nvidia.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 nvidia.com?

Yes. nvidia.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.