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BBC News

bbc.co.uk · United Kingdom · measured 9 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 9 Oct 2026, 4,907 bytes. 21 rule groups name AI crawlers; shown first.

User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-Agent: omgili
Disallow: /

User-Agent: omgilibot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Disallow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: cohere-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: PetalBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /

User-Agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: meta-externalagent
Disallow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Diffbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Diffbot-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: YouBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: *
Sitemap: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sitemaps/https-index-uk-archive.xml
Sitemap: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sitemaps/https-index-uk-news.xml
Sitemap: https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/sitemap/sitemapindex.xml
Sitemap: https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/sitemap/sitemapindex.xml
Sitemap: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sitemaps/https-index-uk-archive_video.xml
Sitemap: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sitemaps/https-index-uk-video.xml
Sitemap: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sitemaps/sitemap-uk-ws-topics.xml
Sitemap: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sitemaps/sitemap-uk-topics.xml
Sitemap: https://www.bbc.co.uk/ideas/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.bbc.co.uk/tiny-happy-people/sitemap/sitemapindex.xml
Disallow: /asset/
Disallow: /backstage/bbc-login-help/
Disallow: /backstage/bbc-login-help$
Disallow: /bitesize/search$
Disallow: /bitesize/search/
Disallow: /bitesize/search?
Disallow: /cbbc/search$
Disallow: /cbbc/search/
Disallow: /cbbc/search?
Disallow: /cbeebies/search$
Disallow: /cbeebies/search/
Disallow: /cbeebies/search?
Disallow: /chwilio/
Disallow: /chwilio$
Disallow: /chwilio?
Disallow: /iplayer/bigscreen/
Disallow: /iplayer/cbbc/episodes/
Disallow: /iplayer/cbbc/search
Disallow: /iplayer/cbeebies/episodes/
Disallow: /iplayer/cbeebies/search
Disallow: /iplayer/search
Disallow: /indepthtoolkit/smallprox$
Disallow: /indepthtoolkit/smallprox/
Disallow: /moderation/reports/
Disallow: /modules/musicnav/language/
Disallow: /news/0
Disallow: /radio/aod/
Disallow: /radio/aod$
Disallow: /radio/imda
Disallow: /radio/player/
Disallow: /radio/player$
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /search$
Disallow: /search?
Disallow: /sport/alpha/
Disallow: /sounds/player/
Disallow: /sounds/player$
Disallow: /ugc$
Disallow: /ugc/
Disallow: /ugcsupport$
Disallow: /ugcsupport/
Disallow: /userinfo/
Disallow: /userinfo
Disallow: /food/favourites
Disallow: /food/menus/*/shopping-list
Disallow: /food/recipes/*/shopping-list
Disallow: /food/search*?*
Disallow: /sounds/search$
Disallow: /sounds/search/
Disallow: /sounds/search?
Disallow: /ws/includes
Disallow: /rd/search$
Disallow: /rd/search/
Disallow: /rd/search?
Disallow: /things/search$
Disallow: /things/search/
Disallow: /things/search?

User-agent: magpie-crawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: Scrapy
Disallow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: YandexAdditional
Disallow: /

User-agent: YandexAdditionalBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: TurnitinBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Brightbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ApifyBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ApifyWebsiteContentCrawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: ExaBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: TavilyBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ShapBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: FirecrawlAgent
Disallow:/

User-agent: Amzn-SearchBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Amzn-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: ProRataInc
Disallow: /

User-agent: CloudflareBrowserRenderingCrawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /

History

Changes recorded since June 2026.

No change recorded.

In context

United Kingdom
73.8% block at least one AI crawler
Behind Cloudflare
No