Who blocks AI · #926 in the Majestic Million

robots.txt · checked 9 Nov 2026

Does zapier.com block AI crawlers?

No. zapier.com’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: zapier.com/robots.txt · 64 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 2 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Bingbot`	Microsoft	Allowed	line 2 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`DuckDuckBot`	DuckDuckGo	Allowed	line 2 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Applebot`	Apple	Allowed	line 2 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`PetalBot`	Huawei	Allowed	line 2 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`YandexBot`	Yandex	Allowed	line 2 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Baiduspider`	Baidu	Partly blocked	line 48 · `Disallow: /api/` line 49 · `Disallow: /engine/` and 1 more

AI search

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`OAI-SearchBot`	OpenAI	Allowed	line 61 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: OAI-SearchBot`
`PerplexityBot`	Perplexity	Allowed	line 61 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: PerplexityBot`
`Claude-SearchBot`	Anthropic	Allowed	line 61 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: Claude-SearchBot`
`DuckAssistBot`	DuckDuckGo	Allowed	line 61 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: DuckAssistBot`
`Amazonbot`	Amazon	Allowed	line 2 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`YouBot`	You.com	Allowed	line 2 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`

AI training

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`GPTBot`	OpenAI	Allowed	line 61 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: GPTBot`
`ClaudeBot`	Anthropic	Allowed	line 61 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: ClaudeBot`
`Google-Extended`	Google	Allowed	line 61 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: Google-Extended`
`CCBot`	Common Crawl	Allowed	line 2 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Applebot-Extended`	Apple	Allowed	line 2 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`GoogleOther`	Google	Allowed	line 2 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Meta-ExternalAgent`	Meta	Allowed	line 2 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Bytespider`	ByteDance	Allowed	line 2 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`

User-triggered fetchers

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`ChatGPT-User`	OpenAI	Allowed	line 61 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: ChatGPT-User`
`Claude-User`	Anthropic	Allowed	line 61 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: Claude-User`
`Perplexity-User`	Perplexity	Allowed	line 2 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`MistralAI-User`	Mistral	Allowed	line 2 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`Meta-ExternalFetcher`	Meta	Allowed	line 2 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`

SEO tools

Bot	Operator	robots.txt	Deciding line
`AhrefsBot`	Ahrefs	Allowed	line 2 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`SemrushBot`	Semrush	Allowed	line 2 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`MJ12bot`	Majestic	Allowed	line 2 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`
`DotBot`	Moz	Allowed	line 2 · `Allow: /` under `User-agent: *`

View zapier.com/robots.txt · 64 lines

1User-agent: *

2Allow: /

3Allow: /shared/

4Allow: /app/login

5Disallow: /shared/*?wtime

6Disallow: /engine/hydrate/

7Disallow: /hooks/

8Disallow: /goto/

9Disallow: /developer/invite/

10Disallow: /developer/public-invite/

11Disallow: /editor/robots.txt

12Disallow: /app/

13Disallow: /engine/

14Disallow: /google-sso/

15Disallow: /home

16Disallow: /help-v1/

17Disallow: /help/search/

18Disallow: /apps/*/landing/

19Disallow: /apps/*/integrations/*/landing/

20Disallow: /apps/*/roles/*/

21Disallow: /app-directory/

22Disallow: /api/

23Disallow: /new-homepage/

24Disallow: /webintent/

25Disallow: /zapbook/

26Disallow: /sso/

27Disallow: */iframe/*

28Disallow: /*?

30Sitemap: https://zapier.com/uag6x9zaeydnbfy75xsggcsb37h8cgzf-two-service-sitemap.xml

31Sitemap: https://zapier.com/uag6x9zaeydnbfy75xsggcsb37h8cgzf-one-service-sitemap.xml

32Sitemap: https://zapier.com/sitemaps/zap-templates/LZB2XiWzbJFggRYdnRGwcoAgEkTnHHEh

33Sitemap: https://zapier.com/blog/sitemap.xml

34Sitemap: https://zapier.com/uag6x9zaeydnbfy75xsggcsb37h8cgzf-sitemap.xml

35Sitemap: https://zapier.com/uag6x9zaeydnbfy75xsggcsb37h8cgzf-static-sitemap.xml

36Sitemap: https://zapier.com/agents/sitemap.xml

37Sitemap: https://zapier.com/automation/sitemap.xml

38Sitemap: https://zapier.com/marketing/sitemap.xml

39Sitemap: https://zapier.com/sitemaps/templates/Xf3Lk9YbRzQnmgP2eCJtA5Wxv0NdMu6T

40Sitemap: https://zapier.com/automations/sitemap-automations.xml

42Agentmap: https://zapier.com/.well-known/ai-catalog.json

44User-agent: facebookexternalhit

45Allow: /engine/hydrate/

47User-agent: Baiduspider

48Disallow: /api/

49Disallow: /engine/

50Disallow: /app/

52User-agent: GPTBot

53User-agent: OAI-SearchBot

54User-agent: ChatGPT-User

55User-agent: ClaudeBot

56User-agent: Claude-User

57User-agent: Claude-SearchBot

58User-agent: Google-Extended

59User-agent: PerplexityBot

60User-agent: DuckAssistBot

61Allow: /

63Content-Signal: ai-train=yes, search=yes, ai-input=yes

What do the bots actually get?

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

No. zapier.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 zapier.com block ClaudeBot?

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

Does zapier.com block Google-Extended?

No. zapier.com’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 zapier.com block PerplexityBot?

No. zapier.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 zapier.com?

Yes. zapier.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.