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Asahi Shimbun Digital

asahi.com · Japan · Asahi Shimbun Group(朝日新聞社) · measured 8 Oct 2026

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

robots.txt

As read on 8 Oct 2026, 2,033 bytes. 20 rule groups name AI crawlers; shown first.

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Disallow: /
Allow: /ads/

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Disallow: /
Allow: /ads/

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /
Allow: /ads/

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /
Allow: /ads/

User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot
Disallow: /
Allow: /ads/

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /
Allow: /ads/

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /
Allow: /ads/

User-agent: Claude-Web
Disallow: /
Allow: /ads/

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /
Allow: /ads/

User-agent: cohere-ai
Disallow: /
Allow: /ads/

User-agent: omgili
Disallow: /
Allow: /ads/

User-agent: omgilibot
Disallow: /
Allow: /ads/

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: FacebookBot
Disallow: /
Allow: /ads/

User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Disallow: /
Allow: /ads/

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: AmazonBot
Disallow: /
Allow: /ads/

User-agent: Diffbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Timpibot
Disallow: /

User-Agent: *
Disallow: /travel/event/search/
Disallow: /car/index.html
Disallow: /housing/index.html
Disallow: /english/newsfeatures.html
Disallow: /english/business.html
Disallow: /english/cooljapan.html
Disallow: /english/sports.html
Disallow: /*/search/results*
Allow: /
Allow: /.well-known/assetlinks.json
Allow: /ads/

User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /*klpuid=*
Allow: /ads/

User-agent: ICC-Crawler
Disallow: /
Allow: /ads/

User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Disallow: /
Allow: /ads/

User-agent: Claude-User
Disallow: /
Allow: /ads/

User-agent: Cohere-training-data-crawler
Disallow: /
Allow: /ads/

User-agent: Perplexity-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: Meta-externalfetcher
Disallow: /
Allow: /ads/

User-agent: Gensparkbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Magpie-crawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: Scrapy
Disallow: /

User-agent: Webzio-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: SBIntuitionsBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SBIntuitions-SearchBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: OpenindexSpider
Disallow: /

User-agent: AI2Bot
Disallow: /
sitemap: https://www.asahi.com/sitemap.xml

History

Changes recorded since June 2026.

No change recorded.

In context

Japan
32.2% block at least one AI crawler
Behind Cloudflare
No
Same group