Who blocks AI · #23 in the Majestic Million

robots.txt · checked 9 Nov 2026

Does tiktok.com block AI crawlers?

Yes. tiktok.com’s robots.txt blocks 15 of the 19 AI crawlers we track, including GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended and 12 more. It also blocks PetalBot and Baiduspider among search engines.

GPTBotBlocked OAI-SearchBotBlocked ClaudeBotBlocked PerplexityBotBlocked Google-ExtendedBlocked CCBotBlocked

robots.txt: www.tiktok.com/robots.txt · 72 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	Partly blocked	line 59 · `Disallow: /discover` line 60 · `Disallow: /inapp` and 11 more
`DuckDuckBot`	DuckDuckGo	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Applebot`	Apple	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`PetalBot`	Huawei	Blocked	line 26 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: PetalBot`
`YandexBot`	Yandex	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Baiduspider`	Baidu	Blocked	line 26 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: Baiduspider`

AI search

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`OAI-SearchBot`	OpenAI	Blocked	line 26 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: OAI-SearchBot`
`PerplexityBot`	Perplexity	Blocked	line 26 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: PerplexityBot`
`Claude-SearchBot`	Anthropic	Blocked	line 26 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: Claude-SearchBot`
`DuckAssistBot`	DuckDuckGo	Blocked	line 26 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: DuckAssistBot`
`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 26 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: GPTBot`
`ClaudeBot`	Anthropic	Blocked	line 26 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: ClaudeBot`
`Google-Extended`	Google	Blocked	line 26 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: Google-Extended`
`CCBot`	Common Crawl	Blocked	line 26 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: CCBot`
`Applebot-Extended`	Apple	Blocked	line 26 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: Applebot-Extended`
`GoogleOther`	Google	Allowed	no rule matches the home page
`Meta-ExternalAgent`	Meta	Blocked	line 26 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: meta-externalagent`
`Bytespider`	ByteDance	Blocked	line 26 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: Bytespider`

User-triggered fetchers

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`ChatGPT-User`	OpenAI	Blocked	line 26 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: ChatGPT-User`
`Claude-User`	Anthropic	Blocked	line 26 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: Claude-User`
`Perplexity-User`	Perplexity	Blocked	line 26 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: Perplexity-User`
`MistralAI-User`	Mistral	Blocked	line 26 · `Disallow: /` under `User-agent: MistralAI-User`
`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.tiktok.com/robots.txt · 72 lines

1User-agent: Baiduspider

2User-agent: 360Spider

3User-agent: Sogouspider

4User-agent: Yisouspider

5User-agent: PetalBot

6User-agent: GPTBot

7User-agent: OAI-SearchBot

8User-agent: anthropic-ai

9User-agent: ClaudeBot

10User-agent: PerplexityBot

11User-agent: Google-Extended

12User-agent: Applebot-Extended

13User-agent: meta-externalagent

14User-agent: DuckAssistBot

15User-agent: ChatGPT-User

16User-agent: Gemini-Deep-Research

17User-agent: GoogleAgent-Mariner

18User-agent: Google-NotebookLM

19User-agent: CCBot

20User-agent: Claude-User

21User-agent: Claude-SearchBot

22User-agent: Perplexity-User

23User-agent: AI2Bot

24User-agent: MistralAI-User

25User-agent: Bytespider

26Disallow: /

28User-agent: *

29Allow: /foryou

30Allow: /discover

31Allow: /about

32Allow: /legal

33Allow: /safety

34Allow: /forgood

35Allow: /community-guidelines

36Allow: /tag

37Allow: /amp

38Allow: /transparency

39Allow: /share

40Allow: /music

41Disallow: /inapp

42Disallow: /auth

43Disallow: /embed/@

44Disallow: /embed/v2

45Disallow: /embed/curated

46Disallow: /link

47Disallow: */directory/

48Disallow: /search/video?

49Disallow: /search/user?q=

50Disallow: /shop/view/product/

51Disallow: /sgtm/g/collect

52Disallow: /api/share/settings

53Disallow: /api/recommend/embed_videos

54Disallow: /discover/trending/detail/

55Disallow: /search?

56Disallow: /search/live?

58User-agent: Bingbot

59Disallow: /discover

60Disallow: /inapp

61Disallow: /auth

62Disallow: /embed/@

63Disallow: /embed/v2

64Disallow: /embed/curated

65Disallow: /link

66Disallow: */directory/

67Disallow: /shop/view/product/

68Disallow: /sgtm/g/collect

69Disallow: /api/share/settings

70Disallow: /api/recommend/embed_videos

71Disallow: /search?

What do the bots actually get?

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

Yes. tiktok.com’s robots.txt disallows GPTBot from the whole site (line 26: 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 tiktok.com block ClaudeBot?

Yes. tiktok.com’s robots.txt disallows ClaudeBot from the whole site (line 26: Disallow: /). ClaudeBot is Anthropic’s crawler for training data. Checked 9 November 2026.

Does tiktok.com block Google-Extended?

Yes. tiktok.com’s robots.txt disallows Google-Extended from the whole site (line 26: 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 tiktok.com block PerplexityBot?

Yes. tiktok.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 tiktok.com?

Not through its own crawler. tiktok.com’s robots.txt disallows OAI-SearchBot from the whole site (line 26: Disallow: /). OAI-SearchBot is the crawler behind ChatGPT search; blocking it keeps the site out of ChatGPT’s search answers. Checked 9 November 2026.