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Metro

metro.co.uk · United Kingdom · DMGT UK · measured 8 Oct 2026

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

robots.txt

As read on 8 Oct 2026, 4,976 bytes. 1 rule group name AI crawlers; shown first.

User-agent: AhrefsBot
User-agent: AI2Bot
User-agent: Ai2Bot-Dolma
User-agent: Amazonbot
User-agent: amazon-kendra-
User-agent: anthropic-ai
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
User-agent: bedrockbot
User-agent: Bytespider
User-agent: CloudflareBrowserRenderingCrawler
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: ChatGLM-Spider
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
User-agent: Claude-User
User-agent: Claude-Web
User-agent: cohere-ai
User-agent: Cotoyogi
User-agent: DeepSeekBot
User-agent: Diffbot
User-agent: DuckAssistBot
User-agent: EchoboxBot
User-agent: FacebookBot
User-agent: FriendlyCrawler
User-agent: Gemini-Deep-Research
User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot
User-agent: Google-Extended
User-agent: GoogleOther
User-agent: GoogleOther-Image
User-agent: GoogleOther-Video
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: Grok
User-agent: iaskspider/2.0
User-agent: ICC-Crawler
User-agent: ImagesiftBot
User-agent: img2dataset
User-agent: ISSCyberRiskCrawler
User-agent: Kangaroo Bot
User-agent: KunatoCrawler
User-agent: LinerBot
User-agent: Meltwater
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher
User-agent: MistralAI-User
User-agent: OAI-Operator
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-agent: omgili
User-agent: omgilibot
User-agent: PanguBot
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: Perplexity-User
User-agent: PetalBot
User-agent: QualifiedBot
User-agent: Scrapy
User-agent: Seekr
User-agent: Sidetrade indexer bot
User-agent: TaraGroup Intelligent Bot
User-agent: TikTokSpider
User-agent: Timpibot
User-agent: VelenPublicWebCrawler
User-agent: WARDBot
User-agent: Webzio-Extended
User-agent: wpbot
User-agent: WRTNBot
User-agent: YouBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /*.pdf
Disallow: /post-style/*
Disallow: /jobs-scrape/*
Disallow: /*ia_markup=*
Disallow: /dmg_liveblog/*
Disallow: /wp-includes/*
Disallow: /wp-content/*.js
Disallow: /wp-content/*.css
Disallow: /wp-json/*
Disallow: /_static/*

User-agent: archive-it.org
User-agent: archive.org_bot
User-agent: ArchiveBot
User-agent: Arquivo-web-crawler
User-agent: Authory
User-agent: babel
User-agent: bl.uk_ldfc_bot
User-agent: bl.uk_ldfc_renderbot
User-agent: bne.es_bot
User-agent: bnf.fr_bot
User-agent: ecoresearch
User-agent: ecoresearchCrawler
User-agent: Europarchive.org
User-agent: kb.dk_bot
User-agent: Kulturarw3
User-agent: LivelapBot
User-agent: mediacloud
User-agent: mirrorweb
User-agent: MSIECrawler
User-agent: nationalarchives.gov.uk
User-agent: netarkivet.dk
User-agent: netEstate NE Crawler
User-agent: Nicecrawler
User-agent: nl-israel_iaharvester2026
User-agent: nlnbot
User-agent: nlncrawler
User-agent: PageFreezer
User-agent: SafeDNS
User-agent: SmarshBot
User-agent: special_archiver
User-agent: tkl.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp
User-agent: TurnitinBot
User-agent: webarchiv.cz
User-agent: WordPress.com mShots
User-agent: XY-Archive-Compliance-Archiver
User-agent: XY-Archive-Compliance-Crawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: GoogleOther
Allow: /.well-known/privacy-sandbox-attestations.json
Sitemap: https://metro.co.uk/sitemap.xml?yyyy=2026
Sitemap: https://metro.co.uk/sitemap.xml?yyyy=2025
Sitemap: https://metro.co.uk/sitemap.xml?yyyy=2024
Sitemap: https://metro.co.uk/sitemap.xml?yyyy=2023
Sitemap: https://metro.co.uk/sitemap.xml?yyyy=2022
Sitemap: https://metro.co.uk/sitemap.xml?yyyy=2021
Sitemap: https://metro.co.uk/sitemap.xml?yyyy=2020
Sitemap: https://metro.co.uk/news-sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://metro.co.uk/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://metro.co.uk/sitemap-channels.xml
Sitemap: https://metro.co.uk/sitemap-tags.xml
Sitemap: https://metro.co.uk/sitemap-authors.xml
Sitemap: https://metro.co.uk/sitemap-videos.xml
Sitemap: https://metro.co.uk/sitemap-tv-soaps.xml
Sitemap: https://metro.co.uk/sitemap-images.xml
Sitemap: https://metro.co.uk/sitemap.xml

History

Changes recorded since June 2026.

No change recorded.

In context

United Kingdom
73.8% block at least one AI crawler
Behind Cloudflare
No
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