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robots.txt · checked 9 Nov 2026

Does tradingview.com block AI crawlers?

No. tradingview.com’s robots.txt lets all 19 AI crawlers we track crawl the site, though it keeps OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot and 8 more out of some paths. Search engines such as Googlebot and Bingbot may crawl it.

GPTBotAllowedOAI-SearchBotPartly blockedClaudeBotPartly blockedPerplexityBotPartly blockedGoogle-ExtendedPartly blockedCCBotAllowed
robots.txt
www.tradingview.com/robots.txt · 49 lines
llms.txt
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Checked
9 November 2026, as canaicrawl. We check again every week.

Every bot, and the line that decides

Search engines

BotOperatorrobots.txtDeciding line
GooglebotGoogleAllowedno rule matches the home page
BingbotMicrosoftPartly blockedline 39 · Disallow: /ideas/* line 40 · Disallow: /scripts/* and 7 more
DuckDuckBotDuckDuckGoAllowedno rule matches the home page
ApplebotAppleAllowedno rule matches the home page
PetalBotHuaweiAllowedno rule matches the home page
YandexBotYandexAllowedno rule matches the home page
BaiduspiderBaiduAllowedno rule matches the home page

AI search

BotOperatorrobots.txtDeciding line
OAI-SearchBotOpenAIPartly blockedline 39 · Disallow: /ideas/* line 40 · Disallow: /scripts/* and 7 more
PerplexityBotPerplexityPartly blockedline 39 · Disallow: /ideas/* line 40 · Disallow: /scripts/* and 7 more
Claude-SearchBotAnthropicAllowedno rule matches the home page
DuckAssistBotDuckDuckGoAllowedno rule matches the home page
AmazonbotAmazonPartly blockedline 39 · Disallow: /ideas/* line 40 · Disallow: /scripts/* and 7 more
YouBotYou.comAllowedno rule matches the home page

AI training

BotOperatorrobots.txtDeciding line
GPTBotOpenAIAllowedno rule matches the home page
ClaudeBotAnthropicPartly blockedline 39 · Disallow: /ideas/* line 40 · Disallow: /scripts/* and 7 more
Google-ExtendedGooglePartly blockedline 39 · Disallow: /ideas/* line 40 · Disallow: /scripts/* and 7 more
CCBotCommon CrawlAllowedno rule matches the home page
Applebot-ExtendedApplePartly blockedline 39 · Disallow: /ideas/* line 40 · Disallow: /scripts/* and 7 more
GoogleOtherGooglePartly blockedline 39 · Disallow: /ideas/* line 40 · Disallow: /scripts/* and 7 more
Meta-ExternalAgentMetaPartly blockedline 39 · Disallow: /ideas/* line 40 · Disallow: /scripts/* and 7 more
BytespiderByteDancePartly blockedline 39 · Disallow: /ideas/* line 40 · Disallow: /scripts/* and 7 more

User-triggered fetchers

BotOperatorrobots.txtDeciding line
ChatGPT-UserOpenAIPartly blockedline 39 · Disallow: /ideas/* line 40 · Disallow: /scripts/* and 7 more
Claude-UserAnthropicAllowedno rule matches the home page
Perplexity-UserPerplexityAllowedno rule matches the home page
MistralAI-UserMistralAllowedno rule matches the home page
Meta-ExternalFetcherMetaAllowedno rule matches the home page

SEO tools

BotOperatorrobots.txtDeciding line
AhrefsBotAhrefsAllowedno rule matches the home page
SemrushBotSemrushAllowedno rule matches the home page
MJ12botMajesticAllowedno rule matches the home page
DotBotMozAllowedno rule matches the home page
View www.tradingview.com/robots.txt · 49 lines
1User-agent: *
2Disallow: /chat/m/
3Disallow: /search/
4Disallow: /ideas/search/
5Disallow: /scripts/search/
6Disallow: /idea-popup/
7Disallow: /*mobileapp=true
8Disallow: /*popup=true
9Disallow: /*dark=false&popup=true
10Disallow: /widgetembed/
11Disallow: /embed-widget/
12Disallow: /*?support
13Disallow: /badbrowser/
14Disallow: /accounts/
15Disallow: /options/volatility/
16Disallow: /options/chain/
17
18User-agent: bingbot
19Crawl-delay: 5
20User-agent: Yandex
21Crawl-delay: 10
22
23User-agent: Google-Extended
24User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot
25User-agent: GoogleOther
26User-agent: Applebot-Extended
27User-agent: Amazonbot
28User-agent: meta-externalagent
29User-agent: ClaudeBot
30User-agent: PerplexityBot
31User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler
32User-agent: OmgiliBot
33User-agent: AI2Bot
34User-agent: Bytespider
35User-agent: TikTokspider
36User-agent: DeepSeekBot
37User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
38User-agent: ChatGPT-User
39Disallow: /ideas/*
40Disallow: /scripts/*
41Disallow: /script/*
42Disallow: /v/*
43Disallow: /symbols/*/minds/*
44Disallow: /u/*
45Disallow: /chat/*
46Disallow: /chart/*
47Disallow: /watchlists/*
48
49Sitemap: https://www.tradingview.com/sitemap.xml

What do the bots actually get?

This page reads robots.txt, which states what tradingview.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

Questions

Does tradingview.com block GPTBot?

No. tradingview.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 tradingview.com block ClaudeBot?

Partly. tradingview.com’s robots.txt keeps ClaudeBot out of some paths, such as /ideas/*, and lets it crawl the rest. ClaudeBot is Anthropic’s crawler for training data. Checked 9 November 2026.

Does tradingview.com block Google-Extended?

Partly. tradingview.com’s robots.txt keeps Google-Extended out of some paths, such as /ideas/*, and lets it crawl the rest. 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 tradingview.com block PerplexityBot?

Partly. tradingview.com’s robots.txt keeps PerplexityBot out of some paths, such as /ideas/*, and lets it crawl the rest. PerplexityBot is the crawler that indexes pages for Perplexity’s answers. Checked 9 November 2026.

Can ChatGPT search find tradingview.com?

Partly. tradingview.com’s robots.txt keeps OAI-SearchBot out of some paths, such as /ideas/*, and lets it crawl the rest. OAI-SearchBot is the crawler behind ChatGPT search; blocking it keeps the site out of ChatGPT’s search answers. Checked 9 November 2026.