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The Economist

economist.com · United Kingdom · 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, 2,664 bytes. 12 rule groups name AI crawlers; shown first.

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /pro$
Allow: /pro/
Allow: /syndication$
Allow: /syndication/
Disallow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Allow: /pro$
Allow: /pro/
Allow: /syndication$
Allow: /syndication/
Disallow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /pro$
Allow: /pro/
Allow: /syndication$
Allow: /syndication/
Disallow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /pro$
Allow: /pro/
Allow: /syndication$
Allow: /syndication/
Disallow: /

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /pro$
Allow: /pro/
Allow: /syndication$
Allow: /syndication/
Disallow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /

User-Agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: PetalBot
Disallow: /

Sitemap: https://www.economist.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.economist.com/googlenews.xml

User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Allow: /pro$
Allow: /pro/
Allow: /syndication$
Allow: /syndication/
Disallow: /

User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /pro$
Allow: /pro/
Allow: /syndication$
Allow: /syndication/
Disallow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /pro$
Allow: /pro/
Allow: /syndication$
Allow: /syndication/
Disallow: /

User-agent: PiplBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: TurnitinBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: MoodleBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: magpie-crawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: ia_archiver
Disallow: /

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; parse.ly scraper/0.16; +http://parsely.com)
Disallow: /checkout

User-agent: *
Disallow: /5605/
Disallow: /pubads.g.doubleclick.net/
Disallow: /assets/infographic/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /search?q=
Disallow: /graphql
Disallow: /api
Disallow: /subscribe/getstarted/
Disallow: /checkout
Disallow: /switch*
Disallow: /audio-edition-podcast/*/index.xml

History

Changes recorded since June 2026.

No change recorded.

In context

United Kingdom
73.8% block at least one AI crawler
Behind Cloudflare
Yes