Who blocks AI · #340 in the Majestic Million

robots.txt · checked 9 Nov 2026

Does patreon.com block AI crawlers?

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

GPTBotAllowed OAI-SearchBotAllowed ClaudeBotAllowed PerplexityBotBlocked Google-ExtendedAllowed CCBotAllowed

robots.txt: patreon.com/robots.txt · 34 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	line 29 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: PetalBot`
`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	Blocked	line 26 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: PerplexityBot`
`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 patreon.com/robots.txt · 34 lines

1User-agent: *

2Disallow: /settings

3Disallow: /logout

4Disallow: /bePatronDone

5Disallow: /productPurchaseDone

6Disallow: /mwebWindowDone

7Disallow: /file

8Disallow: /patronNext

9Disallow: /userNext

10Disallow: /bePatron

11Disallow: /REST/auth/CSRFTicket

12Disallow: /user.php

13Disallow: /_generated

14Disallow: /api/

15Disallow: /rss/

16Disallow: /_private/admin-tools/

17Disallow: /corgi$

18Disallow: /checkout/

19User-agent: FacebookBot

20Disallow: /

21User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot

22Disallow: /

23User-agent: Timpibot

24Disallow: /

25User-agent: PerplexityBot

26Disallow: /

27User-agent: PetalBot

28Content-Signal: search=yes, ai-input=yes, ai-train=no

29Allow: /

30User-agent: TikTokSpider

31Content-Signal: search=yes, ai-input=yes, ai-train=no

32Allow: /

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

What do the bots actually get?

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

History

19 October 2026: first checked.

Questions

Does patreon.com block GPTBot?

No. patreon.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 patreon.com block ClaudeBot?

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

Does patreon.com block Google-Extended?

No. patreon.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 patreon.com block PerplexityBot?

Yes. patreon.com’s robots.txt disallows PerplexityBot from the whole site (line 26: Disallow: /). PerplexityBot is the crawler that indexes pages for Perplexity’s answers. Checked 9 November 2026.

Can ChatGPT search find patreon.com?

Yes. patreon.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.