The Nightly

thenightly.com.au · Australia · Seven West · measured 8 Oct 2026

Google Search

Allowed

Google-Extended

Allowed

OpenAI

Allowed

Anthropic

Allowed

Perplexity

Allowed

robots.txt

As read on 8 Oct 2026, 291 bytes. No rule names an AI crawler.

User-agent: *
Disallow:
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /coral-comments
Sitemap: https://thenightly.com.au/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://thenightly.com.au/news-sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://thenightly.com.au/editions/sitemap.xml

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow: /assets/profiles/*_thumb.png$

History

Changes recorded since June 2026.

No change recorded.

In context

Australia

34.0% block at least one AI crawler

Behind Cloudflare

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