Does reddit.com block AI crawlers?

Yes. reddit.com’s robots.txt blocks all 19 AI crawlers we track, from GPTBot and ClaudeBot to PerplexityBot. It also blocks Googlebot, Bingbot and 5 more among search engines.

GPTBotBlocked OAI-SearchBotBlocked ClaudeBotBlocked PerplexityBotBlocked Google-ExtendedBlocked CCBotBlocked

robots.txt: www.reddit.com/robots.txt · 9 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	Blocked	line 8 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Bingbot`	Microsoft	Blocked	line 8 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`DuckDuckBot`	DuckDuckGo	Blocked	line 8 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Applebot`	Apple	Blocked	line 8 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`PetalBot`	Huawei	Blocked	line 8 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`YandexBot`	Yandex	Blocked	line 8 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Baiduspider`	Baidu	Blocked	line 8 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: *`

AI search

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`OAI-SearchBot`	OpenAI	Blocked	line 8 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`PerplexityBot`	Perplexity	Blocked	line 8 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Claude-SearchBot`	Anthropic	Blocked	line 8 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`DuckAssistBot`	DuckDuckGo	Blocked	line 8 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Amazonbot`	Amazon	Blocked	line 8 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`YouBot`	You.com	Blocked	line 8 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: *`

AI training

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`GPTBot`	OpenAI	Blocked	line 8 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`ClaudeBot`	Anthropic	Blocked	line 8 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Google-Extended`	Google	Blocked	line 8 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`CCBot`	Common Crawl	Blocked	line 8 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Applebot-Extended`	Apple	Blocked	line 8 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`GoogleOther`	Google	Blocked	line 8 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Meta-ExternalAgent`	Meta	Blocked	line 8 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Bytespider`	ByteDance	Blocked	line 8 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: *`

User-triggered fetchers

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`ChatGPT-User`	OpenAI	Blocked	line 8 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Claude-User`	Anthropic	Blocked	line 8 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Perplexity-User`	Perplexity	Blocked	line 8 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`MistralAI-User`	Mistral	Blocked	line 8 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Meta-ExternalFetcher`	Meta	Blocked	line 8 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: *`

SEO tools

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`AhrefsBot`	Ahrefs	Blocked	line 8 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`SemrushBot`	Semrush	Blocked	line 8 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`MJ12bot`	Majestic	Blocked	line 8 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`DotBot`	Moz	Blocked	line 8 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: *`

View www.reddit.com/robots.txt · 9 lines

1# Welcome to Reddit's robots.txt

2# Reddit believes in an open internet, but not the misuse of public content.

3# See https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/26410290525844-Public-Content-Policy Reddit's Public Content Policy for access and use restrictions to Reddit content.

4# See https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit4researchers/ for details on how Reddit continues to support research and non-commercial use.

5# policy: https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/26410290525844-Public-Content-Policy

7User-agent: *

8Disallow: /

What do the bots actually get?

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

Yes. reddit.com’s robots.txt disallows GPTBot from the whole site (line 8: Disallow: /). GPTBot is OpenAI’s crawler for training data; blocking it doesn’t affect ChatGPT search, which uses OAI-SearchBot. Checked 9 November 2026.

Does reddit.com block ClaudeBot?

Yes. reddit.com’s robots.txt disallows ClaudeBot from the whole site (line 8: Disallow: /). ClaudeBot is Anthropic’s crawler for training data. Checked 9 November 2026.

Does reddit.com block Google-Extended?

Yes. reddit.com’s robots.txt disallows Google-Extended from the whole site (line 8: Disallow: /). 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 reddit.com block PerplexityBot?

Yes. reddit.com’s robots.txt disallows PerplexityBot from the whole site (line 8: Disallow: /). PerplexityBot is the crawler that indexes pages for Perplexity’s answers. Checked 9 November 2026.

Can ChatGPT search find reddit.com?

Not through its own crawler. reddit.com’s robots.txt disallows OAI-SearchBot from the whole site (line 8: Disallow: /). OAI-SearchBot is the crawler behind ChatGPT search; blocking it keeps the site out of ChatGPT’s search answers. Checked 9 November 2026.