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apnews.com · United States · Associated Press · measured 8 Oct 2026

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

robots.txt

As read on 8 Oct 2026, 1,293 bytes. 10 rule groups name AI crawlers; shown first.

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Disallow: /

User-agent: cohere-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: Timpibot
Disallow: /

User-Agent: *
Disallow:
Disallow: *_ptid=*
Disallow: *?prx_t=*
Disallow: /zephr*
Disallow: /blaize*
Disallow: /search?q=*
Disallow: /*.rss
Disallow: /buyline-shopping/*
Disallow: /buyline-personal-finance/*
Disallow: *?jw_start
Disallow: *&jw_start
Disallow: /gallery/
Disallow: /config/newrelic/prod
Disallow: /parsely-api-endpoint
Disallow: /apdata/
Disallow: /article/border-immigration-election-2182fec11fa008ec96c4202e5656d19e
Disallow: /api/v2/feed/
Disallow: /press-release/*
Sitemap: https://apnews.com/ap-sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://apnews.com/news-sitemap-content.xml
Sitemap: https://apnews.com/hubs-sitemap-content.xml
Sitemap: https://apnews.com/video-sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://apnews.com/author-sitemap-content.xml
Sitemap: https://apnews.com/projects/elections-2026/sitemap-index.xml

User-agent: Bytedance
Disallow: /

User-agent: Claude-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Disallow: /

History

Changes recorded since June 2026.

No change recorded.

In context

United States
63.2% block at least one AI crawler
Behind Cloudflare
Yes