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abcnews.go.com

abcnews.go.com · United States · measured 8 Oct 2026

Google Search
Allowed
Google-Extended
Blocked
OpenAI
Blocked
Anthropic
Allowed
Perplexity
Allowed
Meta
Allowed
Common Crawl
Blocked
ByteDance
Blocked
Apple
Allowed
Amazon
Allowed

robots.txt

As read on 8 Oct 2026, 1,754 bytes. 9 rule groups name AI crawlers; shown first.

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: Omgilibot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Omgili
Disallow: /

User-agent: FacebookBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

Sitemap: https://abcnews.go.com/xmap
Sitemap: https://abcnews.go.com/xmlLatestStories
Sitemap: https://abcnews.go.com/xmlLatestVideos

User-agent: claritybot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Googlebot-News
Disallow: /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /search?searchtext=*
Disallow: /disneyid/*
Disallow: /assets/static/ads/*
Disallow: /cgi
Disallow: /xls
Disallow: /imp
Disallow: /kmail
Disallow: /map
Disallow: /log
Disallow: /gif
Disallow: /panel
Disallow: /0/
Disallow: /promo/
Disallow: /abclinks/
Disallow: /houseads/
Allow: /xmldata/mrss
Allow: /xmldata/rss
Allow: /xmldata/xmlPodcast
Allow: /xmldata/config
Allow: /xmldata/feed
Disallow: /sendtofriend/
Allow: /meta/sitemap
Disallow: /meta/
Disallow: /staging/
Disallow: /test/
Disallow: /swen/
Disallow: /intro/
Disallow: /go/
Disallow: /news/go/
Disallow: /widgets/
Disallow: /vp2/
Disallow: /Video/*playerIndex
Disallow: /*carousel/
Disallow: /*videoLogin?
Disallow: /video/browse/
Disallow: /*popup?
Disallow: /alerts-v1/
Disallow: /not-allowed/
Disallow: /beta-story-container/*
Disallow: /video/embed/*
Disallow: /video/amp/embed/*
Disallow: /responder
Disallow: /video/itemfeed*
Disallow: /video/caption*
Disallow: /content/news/liveBlog/*
Disallow: /configuration/*
Disallow: /rsidxfeed/*
Disallow: /xmldata/*
Disallow: /gma/api/*
Disallow: /proxy/*

User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /
Disallow: /private/

History

Changes recorded since June 2026.

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