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San Francisco Chronicle

sfchronicle.com · United States · Hearst Corporation · measured 8 Oct 2026

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

robots.txt

As read on 8 Oct 2026, 1,144 bytes. 1 rule group name AI crawlers; shown first.

User-agent: ai2bot-dolma
User-agent: anthropic-ai
User-agent: applebot-extended
User-agent: bytespider
User-agent: ccbot
User-agent: claude-user
User-agent: claude-web
User-agent: claudebot
User-agent: cohere-ai
User-agent: diffbot
User-agent: duckassistbot
User-agent: friendlycrawler
User-agent: omgili
User-agent: omgilibot
User-agent: perplexity-user
User-agent: perplexitybot
User-agent: scrapy
User-agent: timpibot
User-agent: youbot
User-agent: webzio-extended
User-agent: kangaroo-bot
User-agent: google-extended
Disallow: /

Sitemap: https://www.sfchronicle.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.sfchronicle.com/sitemap_news.xml
Sitemap: https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/sitemap_projects.xml
Sitemap: https://www.sfchronicle.com/video-sitemap-index.xml

User-agent: AmazonAdBot
Allow: /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /api
Disallow: /adtest
Disallow: /business/press-releases/
Disallow: /style/beauty/hearstmagazines/
Disallow: /style/fashion/hearstmagazines/
Disallow: /living/relationships/hearstmagazines/
Disallow: /homeandgarden/home/hearstmagazines/
Disallow: /living/wellness/hearstmagazines/
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /413gkwMT/

History

Changes recorded since June 2026.

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