Who blocks AI · #826 in the Majestic Million

robots.txt · checked 9 Nov 2026

Does redis.io block AI crawlers?

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

GPTBotAllowed OAI-SearchBotAllowed ClaudeBotAllowed PerplexityBotAllowed Google-ExtendedAllowed CCBotAllowed

robots.txt: redis.io/robots.txt · 38 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 3 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Bingbot`	Microsoft	Allowed	line 3 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`DuckDuckBot`	DuckDuckGo	Allowed	line 3 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Applebot`	Apple	Allowed	line 3 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`PetalBot`	Huawei	Allowed	line 3 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`YandexBot`	Yandex	Allowed	line 3 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Baiduspider`	Baidu	Allowed	line 3 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`

AI search

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`OAI-SearchBot`	OpenAI	Allowed	line 3 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`PerplexityBot`	Perplexity	Allowed	line 29 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: PerplexityBot`
`Claude-SearchBot`	Anthropic	Allowed	line 3 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`DuckAssistBot`	DuckDuckGo	Allowed	line 3 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Amazonbot`	Amazon	Allowed	line 26 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: Amazonbot`
`YouBot`	You.com	Allowed	line 3 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`

AI training

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`GPTBot`	OpenAI	Allowed	line 17 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: GPTBot`
`ClaudeBot`	Anthropic	Allowed	line 3 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Google-Extended`	Google	Allowed	line 32 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: Google-Extended`
`CCBot`	Common Crawl	Allowed	line 35 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: CCBot`
`Applebot-Extended`	Apple	Allowed	line 3 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`GoogleOther`	Google	Allowed	line 3 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Meta-ExternalAgent`	Meta	Allowed	line 3 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Bytespider`	ByteDance	Allowed	line 3 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`

User-triggered fetchers

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`ChatGPT-User`	OpenAI	Allowed	line 20 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: ChatGPT-User`
`Claude-User`	Anthropic	Allowed	line 3 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Perplexity-User`	Perplexity	Allowed	line 3 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`MistralAI-User`	Mistral	Allowed	line 3 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Meta-ExternalFetcher`	Meta	Allowed	line 3 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`

SEO tools

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`AhrefsBot`	Ahrefs	Allowed	line 3 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`SemrushBot`	Semrush	Allowed	line 3 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`MJ12bot`	Majestic	Allowed	line 3 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`DotBot`	Moz	Allowed	line 3 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`

View redis.io/robots.txt · 38 lines

1User-agent: *

2Content-Signal: search=yes, ai-input=yes, ai-train=yes

3Allow: /

4Disallow: /docs/staging/

5Disallow: */?s=

6Disallow: /search/

7Disallow: /studio/

8Disallow: /maintenance/

9Disallow: /thank-you/

10Disallow: /preview/

11Disallow: /404/

12Disallow: /404.html

13Disallow: /template/*

14Disallow: /resources/*.pdf

16User-agent: GPTBot

17Allow: /

19User-agent: ChatGPT-User

20Allow: /

22User-agent: Claude-Web

23Allow: /

25User-agent: Amazonbot

26Allow: /

28User-agent: PerplexityBot

29Allow: /

31User-agent: Google-Extended

32Allow: /

34User-agent: CCBot

35Allow: /

37Sitemap: https://redis.io/sitemap.xml

What do the bots actually get?

This page reads robots.txt, which states what redis.io 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 redis.io block GPTBot?

No. redis.io’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 redis.io block ClaudeBot?

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

Does redis.io block Google-Extended?

No. redis.io’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 redis.io block PerplexityBot?

No. redis.io’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 redis.io?

Yes. redis.io’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.