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The Spokesman Review

spokesman.com · United States · Cowles Company · measured 8 Oct 2026

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

robots.txt

As read on 8 Oct 2026, 6,498 bytes. 12 rule groups name AI crawlers; shown first.

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Disallow: /accounts/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /blockemail/
Disallow: /circ/
Disallow: /comments/
Disallow: /contact/
Disallow: /credit/
Disallow: /customer-comment-form/
Disallow: /digitalcredit/
Disallow: /email/
Disallow: /fragment/
Disallow: /mcp/
Allow: /newsletters/$
Disallow: /newsletters/
Disallow: /newstart/
Disallow: /profiles/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /share/
Disallow: /sradmin/
Disallow: /tags/
Disallow: /xml/

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Disallow: /accounts/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /blockemail/
Disallow: /circ/
Disallow: /comments/
Disallow: /contact/
Disallow: /credit/
Disallow: /customer-comment-form/
Disallow: /digitalcredit/
Disallow: /email/
Disallow: /fragment/
Disallow: /mcp/
Allow: /newsletters/$
Disallow: /newsletters/
Disallow: /newstart/
Disallow: /profiles/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /share/
Disallow: /sradmin/
Disallow: /tags/
Disallow: /xml/

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /accounts/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /blockemail/
Disallow: /circ/
Disallow: /comments/
Disallow: /contact/
Disallow: /credit/
Disallow: /customer-comment-form/
Disallow: /digitalcredit/
Disallow: /email/
Disallow: /fragment/
Disallow: /mcp/
Allow: /newsletters/$
Disallow: /newsletters/
Disallow: /newstart/
Disallow: /profiles/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /share/
Disallow: /sradmin/
Disallow: /tags/
Disallow: /xml/

User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /accounts/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /blockemail/
Disallow: /circ/
Disallow: /comments/
Disallow: /contact/
Disallow: /credit/
Disallow: /customer-comment-form/
Disallow: /digitalcredit/
Disallow: /email/
Disallow: /fragment/
Disallow: /mcp/
Allow: /newsletters/$
Disallow: /newsletters/
Disallow: /newstart/
Disallow: /profiles/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /share/
Disallow: /sradmin/
Disallow: /tags/
Disallow: /xml/

User-agent: MistralAI-User
Disallow: /accounts/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /blockemail/
Disallow: /circ/
Disallow: /comments/
Disallow: /contact/
Disallow: /credit/
Disallow: /customer-comment-form/
Disallow: /digitalcredit/
Disallow: /email/
Disallow: /fragment/
Disallow: /mcp/
Allow: /newsletters/$
Disallow: /newsletters/
Disallow: /newstart/
Disallow: /profiles/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /share/
Disallow: /sradmin/
Disallow: /tags/
Disallow: /xml/

Sitemap: https://www.spokesman.com/sitemap.xml

User-agent: *
Disallow: /accounts/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /blockemail/
Disallow: /circ/
Disallow: /comments/
Disallow: /contact/
Disallow: /credit/
Disallow: /customer-comment-form/
Disallow: /digitalcredit/
Disallow: /email/
Disallow: /fragment/
Disallow: /mcp/
Allow: /newsletters/$
Disallow: /newsletters/
Disallow: /newstart/
Disallow: /profiles/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /share/
Disallow: /sradmin/
Disallow: /tags/
Disallow: /xml/

User-agent: bingbot
Disallow: /accounts/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /circ/
Disallow: /comments/
Disallow: /contact/
Disallow: /credit/
Disallow: /customer-comment-form/
Disallow: /digitalcredit/
Disallow: /email/
Disallow: /fragment/
Disallow: /mcp/
Allow: /newsletters/$
Disallow: /newsletters/
Disallow: /newstart/
Disallow: /profiles/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /share/
Disallow: /sradmin/
Disallow: /tags/
Disallow: /xml/

User-agent: Twitterbot
Disallow: /accounts/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /circ/
Disallow: /comments/
Disallow: /contact/
Disallow: /credit/
Disallow: /customer-comment-form/
Disallow: /digitalcredit/
Disallow: /email/
Disallow: /fragment/
Disallow: /mcp/
Allow: /newsletters/$
Disallow: /newsletters/
Disallow: /newstart/
Disallow: /profiles/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /share/
Disallow: /sradmin/
Disallow: /tags/
Disallow: /xml/

User-agent: TurnitinBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Baiduspider
Disallow: /

User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Disallow: /accounts/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /blockemail/
Disallow: /circ/
Disallow: /comments/
Disallow: /contact/
Disallow: /credit/
Disallow: /customer-comment-form/
Disallow: /digitalcredit/
Disallow: /email/
Disallow: /fragment/
Disallow: /mcp/
Allow: /newsletters/$
Disallow: /newsletters/
Disallow: /newstart/
Disallow: /profiles/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /share/
Disallow: /sradmin/
Disallow: /tags/
Disallow: /xml/

User-agent: Claude-User
Disallow: /accounts/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /blockemail/
Disallow: /circ/
Disallow: /comments/
Disallow: /contact/
Disallow: /credit/
Disallow: /customer-comment-form/
Disallow: /digitalcredit/
Disallow: /email/
Disallow: /fragment/
Disallow: /mcp/
Allow: /newsletters/$
Disallow: /newsletters/
Disallow: /newstart/
Disallow: /profiles/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /share/
Disallow: /sradmin/
Disallow: /tags/
Disallow: /xml/

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Disallow: /accounts/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /blockemail/
Disallow: /circ/
Disallow: /comments/
Disallow: /contact/
Disallow: /credit/
Disallow: /customer-comment-form/
Disallow: /digitalcredit/
Disallow: /email/
Disallow: /fragment/
Disallow: /mcp/
Allow: /newsletters/$
Disallow: /newsletters/
Disallow: /newstart/
Disallow: /profiles/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /share/
Disallow: /sradmin/
Disallow: /tags/
Disallow: /xml/

User-agent: DuckAssistBot
Disallow: /accounts/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /blockemail/
Disallow: /circ/
Disallow: /comments/
Disallow: /contact/
Disallow: /credit/
Disallow: /customer-comment-form/
Disallow: /digitalcredit/
Disallow: /email/
Disallow: /fragment/
Disallow: /mcp/
Allow: /newsletters/$
Disallow: /newsletters/
Disallow: /newstart/
Disallow: /profiles/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /share/
Disallow: /sradmin/
Disallow: /tags/
Disallow: /xml/
Sitemap: https://www.spokesman.com/sitemap-gnews.xml

History

Changes recorded since June 2026.

No change recorded.

In context

United States
63.2% block at least one AI crawler
Behind Cloudflare
No
Same group