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Channel 4 News

channel4.com · United Kingdom · INDEPENDENT TELEVISION NEWS LIMITED · 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
Allowed

robots.txt

As read on 8 Oct 2026, 1,742 bytes. 16 rule groups name AI crawlers; shown first.

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /
Allow: /press/

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

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

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

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

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /
Allow: /press/

User-agent: PetalBot
Disallow: /
Allow: /press/

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

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

User-Agent: omgili
Disallow: /
Allow: /press/

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

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

User-Agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /
Allow: /press/

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

User-agent: meta-externalagent
Disallow: /
Allow: /press/

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

Sitemap: https://www.channel4.com/news/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.channel4.com/sitemap.xml

User-agent: *
Disallow: /news/?*
Disallow: /news/*/?*
Disallow: /press/unregistered-image-search?*
Disallow: /press/content-search?*

User-agent: AdsBot-Google
Allow: /

User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /

User-agent: TurnitinBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: YandexAdditional
Disallow: /
Allow: /press/

User-agent: YandexAdditionalBot
Disallow: /
Allow: /press/

User-agent: DuckAssistBot
Disallow: /
Allow: /press/

User-agent: Amzn-SearchBot
Disallow: /
Allow: /press/

User-agent: Amzn-User
Disallow: /
Allow: /press/

User-agent: ProRataInc
Disallow: /
Allow: /press/

User-agent: CloudflareBrowserRenderingCrawler
Disallow: /
Allow: /press/

User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /
Allow: /press/

History

Changes recorded since June 2026.

No change recorded.

In context

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