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news24.com · South Africa · Media24 · 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, 2,701 bytes. 19 rule groups name AI crawlers; shown first.

User-agent: chatgpt-user
Disallow: /

User-agent: bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: ccbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: diffbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: facebookbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: google-extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: gptbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: omgili
Disallow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Disallow: /

User-agent: amazonbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: perplexitybot
Disallow: /

User-agent: youbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: claude-web
Disallow: /

User-agent: claudebot
Disallow: /

User-agent: cohere-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /
Sitemap: https://www.news24.com/sitemap

user-agent: *
Allow: /
Allow: */cricket/test/
Allow: */cricketworldcup2019/Test/
Disallow: /toets/
Disallow: */toets/*
Disallow: /test/
Disallow: */_test/*
Disallow: */testpolar/*
Disallow: */test/*
Disallow: /xArchive/Archive/Illegal-liquor-export-20010319
Disallow: /.well-known/
Disallow: /assetlinks.json

User-agent: Twitterbot
Allow: /

User-agent: ia_archiver
Disallow: /BreakingNewsSms

User-Agent: MauiBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Claude-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher
Disallow: /

User-agent: DuckAssistBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Meta-WebIndexer
Disallow: /

User-agent: news-please
Disallow: /

User-agent: quillbot.com
Disallow: /

User-agent: Quora-Bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SeekrBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: TurnitinBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: 008
Disallow: /

User-agent: dataprovider-com
Disallow: /

User-agent: dcrawl
Disallow: /

User-agent: httrack
Disallow: /

User-agent: httrack-3-0
Disallow: /

User-agent: metainspector
Disallow: /

User-agent: newspaper
Disallow: /

User-agent: nutch
Disallow: /

User-agent: offline-explorer
Disallow: /

User-agent: scrapy
Disallow: /

User-agent: NewsNow
Disallow: /

User-agent: archive.org_bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ahrefsbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: barkrowler
Disallow: /

User-agent: blexbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: dataforseobot
Disallow: /

User-agent: domainstatsbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: dotbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: hypestat
Disallow: /

User-agent: linkdexbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: mj12bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: screaming-frog-seo-spider
Disallow: /

User-agent: semrushbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: semrushbot-ba
Disallow: /

User-agent: semrushbot-ct
Disallow: /

User-agent: semrushbot-si
Disallow: /

User-agent: semrushbot-swa
Disallow: /

User-agent: serpstatbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: zoombot
Disallow: /

History

Changes recorded since June 2026.

No change recorded.

In context

South Africa
22.1% block at least one AI crawler
Behind Cloudflare
Yes
Same group