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Buzzfeed

buzzfeed.com · United States · 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, 4,496 bytes. 19 rule groups name AI crawlers; shown first.

User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /rss-feeds/feeds/bf-amazon-ai-grounding.extended.xml
Disallow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Disallow: /

User-agent: cohere-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: Diffbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: FacebookBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: google-extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: meta-externalagent
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: Timpibot
Disallow: /

User-agent: omgilibot
Disallow: /

User-agent: TtoYouBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: WebGPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: msnbot
Crawl-delay: 120
Disallow: /*.xml$
Disallow: /buzz/*.xml$
Disallow: /category/*.xml$
Disallow: /mobile/
Disallow: *?s=mobile
Disallow: *?s=bpage-next
Disallow: *?s=lightbox
Disallow: /fabordrab/
Disallow: /bfmp/
Disallow: /buzzfeed/
Disallow: /contest
Disallow: /contests
Disallow: /plugin/
Disallow: /embed/
Disallow: /_comments/
Disallow: /bookmarks/
Disallow: /drafts/

User-agent: *
Disallow: /buzz/*.xml$
Disallow: /category/*.xml$
Disallow: /mobile/
Disallow: *?s=bpage-next
Disallow: *?s=lightbox
Disallow: *?s=feedpager
Disallow: /fabordrab/
Disallow: /bfmp/
Disallow: /buzzfeed/
Disallow: /contest
Disallow: /contests
Disallow: /_ga/
Disallow: /static/
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /plugin/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /buzzfeed/api/
Disallow: /embed/
Disallow: /_comments/
Disallow: /bookmarks/
Disallow: /drafts/
Disallow: /bpage-preview/
Disallow: /cms_preview_ui/
Disallow: /cms_preview_ui_static/
Disallow: /search/

User-agent: discobot
Disallow: /

User-agent: dotbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /comments-api/
Disallow: /content-reactions-api/

User-agent: TurnitinBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: magpie-crawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher
Disallow: /

User-agent: DuckAssistBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: Ai2Bot-Dolma
Disallow: /

User-agent: Slurp
Crawl-delay: 4

User-agent: Verity/1.1
Crawl-delay: 20
Allow: /$
Allow: /*
Disallow: /*.xml$
Disallow: /buzz/*.xml$
Disallow: /category/*.xml$
Disallow: /mobile/
Disallow: *?s=mobile
Disallow: *?s=bpage-next
Disallow: *?s=lightbox
Disallow: *?s=feedpager
Disallow: /fabordrab/
Disallow: /bfmp/
Disallow: /buzzfeed/
Disallow: /contest
Disallow: /contests
Disallow: /_ga/
Disallow: /static/
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /plugin/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /buzzfeed/api/
Disallow: /embed/
Disallow: /_comments/
Disallow: /bookmarks/
Disallow: /drafts/
Disallow: /bpage-preview/
Disallow: /cms_preview_ui/
Disallow: /cms_preview_ui_static/
Disallow: /search/

User-agent: Scope3/2.0 (scope3.com)
Allow: /$
Allow: /*
Disallow: /*.xml$
Disallow: /buzz/*.xml$
Disallow: /category/*.xml$
Disallow: /mobile/
Disallow: *?s=mobile
Disallow: *?s=bpage-next
Disallow: *?s=lightbox
Disallow: *?s=feedpager
Disallow: /fabordrab/
Disallow: /bfmp/
Disallow: /buzzfeed/
Disallow: /contest
Disallow: /contests
Disallow: /_ga/
Disallow: /static/
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /plugin/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /buzzfeed/api/
Disallow: /embed/
Disallow: /_comments/
Disallow: /bookmarks/
Disallow: /drafts/
Disallow: /bpage-preview/
Disallow: /cms_preview_ui/
Disallow: /cms_preview_ui_static/
Disallow: /search/

User-agent: AmazonAdBot
Allow: /$
Allow: /*
Disallow: /*.xml$
Disallow: /buzz/*.xml$
Disallow: /category/*.xml$
Disallow: /mobile/
Disallow: *?s=bpage-next
Disallow: *?s=lightbox
Disallow: *?s=feedpager
Disallow: /fabordrab/
Disallow: /bfmp/
Disallow: /buzzfeed/
Disallow: /contest
Disallow: /contests
Disallow: /_ga/
Disallow: /static/
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /plugin/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /buzzfeed/api/
Disallow: /embed/
Disallow: /_comments/
Disallow: /bookmarks/
Disallow: /drafts/
Disallow: /bpage-preview/
Disallow: /cms_preview_ui/
Disallow: /cms_preview_ui_static/
Disallow: /search/
Sitemap: https://www.buzzfeed.com/sitemap/buzzfeed.xml
Sitemap: https://www.buzzfeed.com/sitemap/tasty.xml
Sitemap: https://www.buzzfeed.com/sitemap/video.xml
Sitemap: https://www.buzzfeed.com/sitemap/shopping.xml
Sitemap: https://www.buzzfeed.com/sitemap/news.xml
Sitemap: https://www.buzzfeed.com/sitemap/buzzfeed-community.xml
Sitemap: https://www.buzzfeed.com/sitemap/editions.xml
Sitemap: https://www.buzzfeed.com/sitemap/news-archive.xml

User-agent: yacybot
Disallow: /

History

Changes recorded since June 2026.

No change recorded.

In context

United States
63.2% block at least one AI crawler
Behind Cloudflare
No
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