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npr.org · United States · measured 8 Oct 2026

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

robots.txt

As read on 8 Oct 2026, 4,736 bytes. 16 rule groups name AI crawlers; shown first.

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Sitemap: https://googlecrawl.npr.org/standard/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://googlecrawl.npr.org/news/sitemap_news.xml
Sitemap: https://googlecrawl.npr.org/video/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.npr.org/live-updates/sitemap.xml

History

Changes recorded since June 2026.

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In context

United States
63.2% block at least one AI crawler
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