CrawlerPulse
CrawlerPulse / Oceania / New Zealand / thepress.co.nz

The Press

thepress.co.nz · New Zealand · Stuff Ltd · measured 8 Oct 2026

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

robots.txt

As read on 8 Oct 2026, 1,236 bytes. 16 rule groups name AI crawlers; shown first.

User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Diffbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: FacebookBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Disallow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: omgili
Disallow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Timpibot
Disallow: /

User-agent: YouBot
Disallow: /

Sitemap: https://www.thepress.co.nz/sitemap/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.thepress.co.nz/sitemap/news/sitemap.xml

User-agent: *
Disallow: /*?*rm=a
Disallow: /*?*videoId=
Disallow: /*?*utm_source=

User-agent: grapeshot
Disallow:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /essentialmums/
Disallow: /email_a_friend/
Disallow: /entertainment/bravo

User-agent: Applebot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher
Disallow: /

User-agent: Webzio-Extended
Disallow: /

History

Changes recorded since June 2026.

No change recorded.

In context

New Zealand
21.8% block at least one AI crawler
Behind Cloudflare
No
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