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robots.txt · checked 9 Nov 2026
Does unsw.edu.au block AI crawlers?
No. unsw.edu.au’s robots.txt lets all 19 AI crawlers we track crawl the site. Search engines such as Googlebot and Bingbot may crawl it.
GPTBotAllowedOAI-SearchBotAllowedClaudeBotAllowedPerplexityBotAllowedGoogle-ExtendedAllowedCCBotAllowed- robots.txt
- www.unsw.edu.au/robots.txt · 199 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 | 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 | Allowed | no rule matches the home page |
ClaudeBot | Anthropic | Allowed | no rule matches the home page |
Google-Extended | Allowed | no rule matches the home page | |
CCBot | Common Crawl | Allowed | no rule matches the home page |
Applebot-Extended | Apple | Allowed | no rule matches the home page |
GoogleOther | Allowed | no rule matches the home page | |
Meta-ExternalAgent | Meta | Allowed | no rule matches the home page |
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.unsw.edu.au/robots.txt · 199 lines
1#
2# robots.txt
3#
4# This file is to prevent the crawling and indexing of certain parts
5# of your site by web crawlers and spiders run by sites like Yahoo!
6# and Google. By telling these "robots" where not to go on your site,
7# you save bandwidth and server resources.
8#
9# This file will be ignored unless it is at the root of your host:
10# Used: http://example.com/robots.txt
11# Ignored: http://example.com/site/robots.txt
12#
13# For more information about the robots.txt standard, see:
14# http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html
15
16User-agent: SiteimproveBot
17User-agent: SiteimproveBot-Crawler
18Crawl-delay: 1
19# CSS, JS, Images
20Allow: /misc/*.css$
21Allow: /misc/*.css?
22Allow: /misc/*.js$
23Allow: /misc/*.js?
24Allow: /misc/*.gif
25Allow: /misc/*.jpg
26Allow: /misc/*.jpeg
27Allow: /misc/*.png
28Allow: /modules/*.css$
29Allow: /modules/*.css?
30Allow: /modules/*.js$
31Allow: /modules/*.js?
32Allow: /modules/*.gif
33Allow: /modules/*.jpg
34Allow: /modules/*.jpeg
35Allow: /modules/*.png
36Allow: /profiles/*.css$
37Allow: /profiles/*.css?
38Allow: /profiles/*.js$
39Allow: /profiles/*.js?
40Allow: /profiles/*.gif
41Allow: /profiles/*.jpg
42Allow: /profiles/*.jpeg
43Allow: /profiles/*.png
44Allow: /themes/*.css$
45Allow: /themes/*.css?
46Allow: /themes/*.js$
47Allow: /themes/*.js?
48Allow: /themes/*.gif
49Allow: /themes/*.jpg
50Allow: /themes/*.jpeg
51Allow: /themes/*.png
52# Directories
53Disallow: /includes/
54Disallow: /misc/
55Disallow: /modules/
56Disallow: /profiles/
57Disallow: /scripts/
58Disallow: /themes/
59Disallow: /sites/default/files/
60# Files
61Disallow: /CHANGELOG.txt
62Disallow: /cron.php
63Disallow: /INSTALL.mysql.txt
64Disallow: /INSTALL.pgsql.txt
65Disallow: /INSTALL.sqlite.txt
66Disallow: /install.php
67Disallow: /INSTALL.txt
68Disallow: /LICENSE.txt
69Disallow: /MAINTAINERS.txt
70Disallow: /update.php
71Disallow: /UPGRADE.txt
72Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
73# Paths (clean URLs)
74Disallow: /admin/
75Disallow: /comment/reply/
76Disallow: /filter/tips/
77Disallow: /node/add/
78Disallow: /search/
79Disallow: /user/register/
80Disallow: /user/password/
81Disallow: /user/login/
82Disallow: /user/logout/
83# Paths (no clean URLs)
84Disallow: /?q=admin/
85Disallow: /?q=comment/reply/
86Disallow: /?q=filter/tips/
87Disallow: /?q=node/add/
88Disallow: /?q=search/
89Disallow: /?q=user/password/
90Disallow: /?q=user/register/
91Disallow: /?q=user/login/
92Disallow: /?q=user/logout/
93# Paths on AEM
94Disallow: /gelato*
95Disallow: /content/dam/images/fsdd/no-follow/
96# Sitemaps
97Sitemap: https://www.unsw.edu.au/news.sitemap.xml
98Sitemap: https://www.unsw.edu.au/staff.sitemap.xml
99Sitemap: https://www.unsw.edu.au/study/undergraduate.sitemap.xml
100Sitemap: https://www.unsw.edu.au/study/postgraduate.sitemap.xml
101Sitemap: https://www.unsw.edu.au/sitemap.xml
102Sitemap: https://www.unsw.edu.au/business.sitemap.xml
103Sitemap: https://www.unsw.edu.au/engineering.sitemap.xml
104Sitemap: https://www.unsw.edu.au/law-justice.sitemap.xml
105Sitemap: https://www.unsw.edu.au/arts-design-architecture.sitemap.xml
106Sitemap: https://www.unsw.edu.au/science.sitemap.xml
107Sitemap: https://www.unsw.edu.au/medicine-health.sitemap.xml
108
109User-agent: *
110Crawl-delay: 10
111# CSS, JS, Images
112Allow: /misc/*.css$
113Allow: /misc/*.css?
114Allow: /misc/*.js$
115Allow: /misc/*.js?
116Allow: /misc/*.gif
117Allow: /misc/*.jpg
118Allow: /misc/*.jpeg
119Allow: /misc/*.png
120Allow: /modules/*.css$
121Allow: /modules/*.css?
122Allow: /modules/*.js$
123Allow: /modules/*.js?
124Allow: /modules/*.gif
125Allow: /modules/*.jpg
126Allow: /modules/*.jpeg
127Allow: /modules/*.png
128Allow: /profiles/*.css$
129Allow: /profiles/*.css?
130Allow: /profiles/*.js$
131Allow: /profiles/*.js?
132Allow: /profiles/*.gif
133Allow: /profiles/*.jpg
134Allow: /profiles/*.jpeg
135Allow: /profiles/*.png
136Allow: /themes/*.css$
137Allow: /themes/*.css?
138Allow: /themes/*.js$
139Allow: /themes/*.js?
140Allow: /themes/*.gif
141Allow: /themes/*.jpg
142Allow: /themes/*.jpeg
143Allow: /themes/*.png
144# Directories
145Disallow: /includes/
146Disallow: /misc/
147Disallow: /modules/
148Disallow: /profiles/
149Disallow: /scripts/
150Disallow: /themes/
151Disallow: /sites/default/files/
152# Files
153Disallow: /CHANGELOG.txt
154Disallow: /cron.php
155Disallow: /INSTALL.mysql.txt
156Disallow: /INSTALL.pgsql.txt
157Disallow: /INSTALL.sqlite.txt
158Disallow: /install.php
159Disallow: /INSTALL.txt
160Disallow: /LICENSE.txt
161Disallow: /MAINTAINERS.txt
162Disallow: /update.php
163Disallow: /UPGRADE.txt
164Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
165# Paths (clean URLs)
166Disallow: /admin/
167Disallow: /comment/reply/
168Disallow: /filter/tips/
169Disallow: /node/add/
170Disallow: /search/
171Disallow: /user/register/
172Disallow: /user/password/
173Disallow: /user/login/
174Disallow: /user/logout/
175# Paths (no clean URLs)
176Disallow: /?q=admin/
177Disallow: /?q=comment/reply/
178Disallow: /?q=filter/tips/
179Disallow: /?q=node/add/
180Disallow: /?q=search/
181Disallow: /?q=user/password/
182Disallow: /?q=user/register/
183Disallow: /?q=user/login/
184Disallow: /?q=user/logout/
185# Paths on AEM
186Disallow: /gelato*
187Disallow: /content/dam/images/fsdd/no-follow/
188# Sitemaps
189Sitemap: https://www.unsw.edu.au/news.sitemap.xml
190Sitemap: https://www.unsw.edu.au/staff.sitemap.xml
191Sitemap: https://www.unsw.edu.au/study/undergraduate.sitemap.xml
192Sitemap: https://www.unsw.edu.au/study/postgraduate.sitemap.xml
193Sitemap: https://www.unsw.edu.au/sitemap.xml
194Sitemap: https://www.unsw.edu.au/business.sitemap.xml
195Sitemap: https://www.unsw.edu.au/engineering.sitemap.xml
196Sitemap: https://www.unsw.edu.au/law-justice.sitemap.xml
197Sitemap: https://www.unsw.edu.au/arts-design-architecture.sitemap.xml
198Sitemap: https://www.unsw.edu.au/science.sitemap.xml
199Sitemap: https://www.unsw.edu.au/medicine-health.sitemap.xml
What do the bots actually get?
This page reads robots.txt, which states what unsw.edu.au 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.
Run a live check on unsw.edu.au Test a path in the robots.txt tester
History
- 19 October 2026: first checked.
Questions
Does unsw.edu.au block GPTBot?
No. unsw.edu.au’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 unsw.edu.au block ClaudeBot?
No. unsw.edu.au’s robots.txt lets ClaudeBot crawl the site. ClaudeBot is Anthropic’s crawler for training data. Checked 9 November 2026.
Does unsw.edu.au block Google-Extended?
No. unsw.edu.au’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 unsw.edu.au block PerplexityBot?
No. unsw.edu.au’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 unsw.edu.au?
Yes. unsw.edu.au’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.