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The Globe and Mail

theglobeandmail.com · Canada · measured 8 Oct 2026

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

robots.txt

As read on 8 Oct 2026, 7,529 bytes. 26 rule groups name AI crawlers; shown first.

User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Anthropic-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Disallow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: cohere-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: DeepSeekBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Diffbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ImagesiftBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Disallow: /

User-agent: meta-externalagent
Disallow: /

User-agent: MistralAI-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: MistralAI-User/1.0
Disallow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: omgili
Disallow: /

User-agent: omgilibot
Disallow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
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User-agent: PetalBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Timpibot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Timpibot/0.9
Disallow: /

User-agent: YouBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: AmazonAdBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Googlebot-News
Disallow: /feeds/
Disallow: /incoming/
Disallow: /test/
Disallow: /partners/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /business/adv/appointmentnotices/search/
Disallow: /gift/

User-agent: AdsBot-Google
Disallow: /feeds/
Disallow: /incoming/
Disallow: /test/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /business/adv/appointmentnotices/search/
Disallow: /gift/

User-agent: *
Disallow: /feeds/
Disallow: /incoming/
Disallow: /test/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /business/adv/appointmentnotices/search/
Disallow: /marketing-containers/
Disallow: /coupons/
Disallow: /files/advertising/
Disallow: /gift/

User-agent: AddSearchBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: AI2Bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: AI2Bot-DeepResearchEval
Disallow: /

User-agent: AI2Bot-Dolma
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User-agent: aiHitBot
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User-agent: AliyunSecBot
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User-agent: AmazonBuyForMe
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User-agent: amazon-kendra
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User-agent: Amzn-SearchBot
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User-agent: Amzn-User
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User-agent: Andibot
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User-agent: Anomura
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User-agent: archive.org_bot
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User-agent: Archive-It
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User-agent: atlassian-bot
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User-agent: AudigentAdBot
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User-agent: Awario
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User-agent: AwarioRssBot
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User-agent: AwarioSmartBot
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User-agent: BaiduSpider
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User-agent: bedrockbot
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User-agent: bigsur.ai
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User-agent: BLEXBot
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User-agent: Brandwatch
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User-agent: Bravebot
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User-agent: Brightbot 1.0
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User-agent: carbon-umbrella-bot/1.0
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User-agent: Channel3Bot
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User-agent: ChatGLM-Spider
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User-agent: ChatGPT Agent
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User-agent: Cision
Disallow: /

User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
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User-agent: Claude-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: Cloudflare-AutoRAG
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User-agent: CloudVertexBot
Disallow: /

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Disallow: /

User-agent: Cotoyogi
Disallow: /

User-agent: Crawl4AI
Disallow: /

User-agent: Crawlspace
Disallow: /

User-agent: DataForSeoBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Datenbank Crawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: Deepseek
Disallow: /

User-agent: Devin
Disallow: /

User-agent: DuckAssistBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: EchoboxBot
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User-agent: ErisBot
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User-agent: Factset_spyderbot
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User-agent: fiperbot/0.1
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User-agent: FirecrawlAgent
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User-agent: FriendlyCrawler
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User-agent: Gemini-Deep-Research
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User-agent: Gnowit
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User-agent: GnowitNewsbot
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User-agent: Google-NotebookLM
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User-agent: GoogleAgent-Mariner
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User-agent: GoogleOther
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User-agent: GoogleOther-Image
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User-agent: GoogleOther-Video
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User-agent: Grok
Disallow: /

User-agent: Heritrix
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User-agent: ia_archiver
Disallow: /

User-agent: iAskBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: iaskspider/2.0
Disallow: /

User-agent: IbouBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ICC-Crawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: imageSpider
Disallow: /

User-agent: img2dataset
Disallow: /

User-agent: Imprint (netEstate Imprint Crawler)
Disallow: /

User-agent: Info2424.info
Disallow: /

User-agent: ISSCyberRiskCrawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: Kangaroo Bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: KlaviyoAIBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: KunatoCrawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: LAIONDownloader
Disallow: /

User-agent: laion-huggingface-processor
Disallow: /

User-agent: LCC
Disallow: /

User-agent: LinerBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Linguee Bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: linkfluence
Disallow: /

User-agent: LinkupBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: LinkupBot/1.0
Disallow: /

User-agent: magpie-crawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: Manus-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: mediatoolkit.com
Disallow: /

User-agent: Meltwater
Disallow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher
Disallow: /

User-agent: meta-externalfetcher
Disallow: /

User-agent: meta-webindexer
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User-agent: Muckrack
Disallow: /

User-agent: MyCentralAIScraperBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: netEstate
Disallow: /

User-agent: netEstate Imprint Crawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: news-api.org
Disallow: /

User-agent: NewsNow
Disallow: /

User-agent: news-please
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User-agent: NotebookLM
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User-agent: NovaAct
Disallow: /

User-agent: Observer/1.0 (obsrvr.net)
Disallow: /

User-agent: openai
Disallow: /

User-agent: OpenAI
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User-agent: Operator
Disallow: /

User-agent: Opoint
Disallow: /

User-agent: OTMedia
Disallow: /

User-agent: PanguBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Panscient
Disallow: /

User-agent: panscient.com
Disallow: /

User-agent: peer39_crawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: peer39_crawler/1.0
Disallow: /

User-agent: Perplexity
Disallow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: PhindBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Poggio-Citations
Disallow: /

User-agent: Poseidon Research Crawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: PressEngineBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: QualifiedBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: QuillBot
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User-agent: quillbot.com
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User-agent: Quora-Bot
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User-agent: Qwantbot
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User-agent: SBIntuitionsBot
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User-agent: scoopit
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User-agent: scpitspi-rs
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User-agent: Scrapy
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User-agent: SeekrBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: semantic-visions.com
Disallow: /

User-agent: SemrushBot-SWA
Disallow: /

User-agent: SentiBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SeznamHomepageCrawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: ShapBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Sidetrade indexer bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Sindup
Disallow: /

User-agent: Slurp
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User-agent: Spider
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User-agent: Squidbot
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User-agent: Squidbot/1.0
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User-agent: TaraGroup Intelligent Bot
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User-agent: TavilyBot
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User-agent: TerraCotta
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User-agent: Thinkbot
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User-agent: Tor
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User-agent: trendictionbot
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User-agent: TurnitinBot
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User-agent: TwinAgent
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User-agent: VelenPublicWebCrawler
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User-agent: ViennaTinyBot
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User-agent: WARDBot
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User-agent: webzio
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User-agent: Webzio-Extended
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User-agent: wpbot
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User-agent: WRTNBot
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User-agent: YaK
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User-agent: YandexAdditionalBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ZanistaBot
Disallow: /
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History

Changes recorded since June 2026.

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In context

Canada
45.2% block at least one AI crawler
Behind Cloudflare
No