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Chicago Sun-Times

chicago.suntimes.com · United States · Chicago Public Media · measured 8 Oct 2026

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

robots.txt

As read on 8 Oct 2026, 1,985 bytes. 2 rule groups name AI crawlers; shown first.

User-agent: facebookexternalhit
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
User-agent: Bytespider
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: Claude-Web
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: Diffbot
User-agent: FriendlyCrawler
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: Google-Extended
User-agent: GoogleOther
User-agent: ICC-Crawler
User-agent: ImagesiftBot
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: PetalBot
User-agent: Scrapy
User-agent: Timpibot
User-agent: VelenPublicWebCrawler
User-agent: Webzio-Extended
User-agent: YouBot
User-agent: anthropic-ai
User-agent: cohere-ai
User-agent: img2dataset
User-agent: omgili
User-agent: omgilibot
Disallow: /
Sitemap: https://chicago.suntimes.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://chicago.suntimes.com/news-sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://chicago.suntimes.com/news-sitemap-content.xml
Sitemap: https://chicago.suntimes.com/sitemap-latest.xml

User-agent: *
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /pages/sponsored
Disallow: /pages/manage-your-account
Disallow: /*_ptid=
Disallow: /_track

User-agent: Googlebot
User-agent: Googlebot-News
User-agent: GoogleOther-Image
User-agent: GoogleOther-Video
Allow: /

User-agent: Googlebot-News
Disallow: /sponsored
Disallow: /sponsored-content
Disallow: /betmgm-presents

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /

User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Slurp
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /

User-agent: SmartNews-AdsBot
User-agent: SmartNewsBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Twitterbot
Allow: /

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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