Who blocks AI · #1115 in the Majestic Million

robots.txt · checked 9 Nov 2026

Does strava.com block AI crawlers?

Yes. strava.com’s robots.txt blocks 4 of the 19 AI crawlers we track, including GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended and Meta-ExternalAgent. Search engines such as Googlebot and Bingbot may crawl it.

GPTBotBlocked OAI-SearchBotAllowed ClaudeBotBlocked PerplexityBotAllowed Google-ExtendedBlocked CCBotAllowed

robots.txt: www.strava.com/robots.txt · 53 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	no rule matches the home page
`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	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`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	Blocked	line 6 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: GPTBot`
`ClaudeBot`	Anthropic	Blocked	line 6 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: ClaudeBot`
`Google-Extended`	Google	Blocked	line 6 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: Google-Extended`
`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	Blocked	line 6 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent`
`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 www.strava.com/robots.txt · 53 lines

1Sitemap: https://sitemap.strava.com/sitemap.xml

2User-agent: ClaudeBot

3User-agent: Google-Extended

4User-agent: GPTBot

5User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent

6Disallow: /

7User-agent: *

8Disallow: /admin/

9Disallow: /api/

10Disallow: /stream/

11Disallow: /activities/*/analysis

12Disallow: /activities/*/embed/

13Disallow: /activities/*/est-power-*

14Disallow: /activities/*/flags/new

15Disallow: /activities/*/heartrate

16Disallow: /activities/*/laps

17Disallow: /activities/*/matched*

18Disallow: /activities/*/overview

19Disallow: /activities/*/pace-*

20Disallow: /activities/*/potential-segment*

21Disallow: /activities/*/power-*

22Disallow: /activities/*/route

23Disallow: /activities/*/segments

24Disallow: /activities/*/shareable_images/

25Disallow: /activities/*/split

26Disallow: /activities/*/truncate

27Disallow: /activities/*/zone-distribution

28Disallow: /athletes/*/follows

29Disallow: /athletes/*/heatmaps

30Disallow: /athletes/*/segments/*

31Disallow: /athletes/*/training/log

32Disallow: /athletes/*/trophy-case

33Disallow: /athletes/*/invite/

34Disallow: /athletes/search

35Disallow: /clubs/*/discussion

36Disallow: /clubs/*/leaderboard

37Disallow: /clubs/*/members

38Disallow: /clubs/*/recent_activity

39Disallow: /routes/new

40Disallow: /routes/*cue_sheet

41Disallow: /routes/*/export

42Disallow: /segments/*/compare

43Disallow: /athlete/*

44Disallow: /beacon/*

45Disallow: /dashboard*

46Disallow: /onboarding*

47Disallow: /upload/*

48Disallow: /running_races/*/results

49Disallow: /get-started

50Disallow: /register-now

51Allow: /training-plans/*

52Allow: /activities/*/segments/*/sharing

What do the bots actually get?

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

Yes. strava.com’s robots.txt disallows GPTBot from the whole site (line 6: 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 strava.com block ClaudeBot?

Yes. strava.com’s robots.txt disallows ClaudeBot from the whole site (line 6: Disallow: /). ClaudeBot is Anthropic’s crawler for training data. Checked 9 November 2026.

Does strava.com block Google-Extended?

Yes. strava.com’s robots.txt disallows Google-Extended from the whole site (line 6: 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 strava.com block PerplexityBot?

No. strava.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 strava.com?

Yes. strava.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.