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Independent Digital News

independent.co.uk · United Kingdom · Independent UK · measured 8 Oct 2026

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

robots.txt

As read on 8 Oct 2026, 1,305 bytes. No rule names an AI crawler.

User-agent: *
Disallow: /CHANGELOG.txt
Disallow: /cron.php
Disallow: /_fs-ch-
Disallow: /INSTALL.mysql.txt
Disallow: /INSTALL.pgsql.txt
Disallow: /INSTALL.sqlite.txt
Disallow: /install.php
Disallow: /INSTALL.txt
Disallow: /LICENSE.txt
Disallow: /MAINTAINERS.txt
Disallow: /update.php
Disallow: /UPGRADE.txt
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
Disallow: /img/placeholder.gif
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /comment/reply/
Disallow: /filter/tips/
Disallow: /node/add/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /user/register/
Disallow: /user/password/
Disallow: /user/login/
Disallow: /user/logout/
Disallow: /internal-api/
Disallow: /?q=admin/
Disallow: /?q=comment/reply/
Disallow: /?q=filter/tips/
Disallow: /?q=node/add/
Disallow: /?q=search/
Disallow: /?q=user/password/
Disallow: /?q=user/register/
Disallow: /?q=user/login/
Disallow: /?q=user/logout/
Disallow: /pugpig/
Disallow: /videorequest
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /api/html/
Disallow: /api/user/
Disallow: /71347885/
Disallow: /cb
Disallow: *itm_channel=native
Disallow: *?page=
Disallow: /*ILC-refresh

User-agent: Nutch
Disallow: /
Sitemap: https://www.independent.co.uk/sitemaps/googlenews
Sitemap: https://www.independent.co.uk/sitemap.xml

History

Changes recorded since June 2026.

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United Kingdom
73.8% block at least one AI crawler
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