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CrawlerPulse / Europe / United Kingdom / express.co.uk

Express

express.co.uk · United Kingdom · Reach plc · measured 8 Oct 2026

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

robots.txt

As read on 8 Oct 2026, 1,733 bytes. 9 rule groups name AI crawlers; shown first.

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: YouBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Disallow: /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /myexpress/
Disallow: /printer/		# We'll keep the print version for our newspaper
Disallow: /users/		#
Disallow: /sponsored/		# Advertorials
Disallow: /trackings/		# Adserving
Disallow: /34722903/		# Adserving
Disallow: /search?*
Disallow: /videos/get_video_by_uid/
Disallow: /videos/viewmeta/
Sitemap: https://www.express.co.uk/sitemap.xml

User-agent: grapeshot
Disallow:

User-agent: Googlebot-News
Disallow: /myexpress/
Disallow: /printer/		# We'll keep the print version for our newspaper
Disallow: /users/		#
Disallow: /fun/			#
Disallow: /sponsored/		# Advertorials
Disallow: /trackings/		# Adserving
Disallow: /34722903/		# Adserving
Disallow: /sponsoredfeatures
Disallow: /search?*
Disallow: /videos/get_video_by_uid/
Disallow: /videos/viewmeta/
Sitemap: https://www.express.co.uk/googlenews.xml

User-agent: ia_archiver
Disallow: /

User-agent: Nutch
Disallow: /

User-agent: ias_crawler
Crawl-delay: 10.0

User-agent: ias_wombles
Crawl-delay: 10.0

User-agent: ias-ie
Crawl-delay: 10.0

User-agent: daumoa
Disallow: /

User-agent: Sosospider
Disallow: /

User-agent: rogerbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: semetrical
Disallow: /

User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: AmazonAdBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ozone
Allow: /

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