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Financial Times

ft.com · United Kingdom · Financial Times Group · measured 8 Oct 2026

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

robots.txt

As read on 8 Oct 2026, 1,556 bytes. 14 rule groups name AI crawlers; shown first.

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /
Allow: /*?syn-25a6b1a6=1

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: omgili
Disallow: /

User-agent: omgilibot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: cohere-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Disallow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Diffbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: FacebookBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: meta-externalagent
Disallow: /

Sitemap: https://www.ft.com/sitemaps/index.xml

User-agent: *
Disallow: /__
Disallow: /_fs-ch
Disallow: /article/e63d8640-eeb3-4473-b0ad-aa6aec16d9fe
Disallow: /buy/
Disallow: /cancel/
Disallow: /join/
Disallow: /login
Disallow: /myft
Disallow: /offline/
Disallow: /page-resources
Disallow: /preferences/manage-cookies
Disallow: /register/
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /signup
Allow: /__origami/
Allow: /__assets/
Crawl-Delay: 1

User-agent: GoogleOther
Disallow: /

User-agent: magpie-crawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: NewsNow
Disallow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher
Disallow: /

History

Changes recorded since June 2026.

No change recorded.

In context

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