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The Times

thetimes.co.uk · United Kingdom · News UK · measured 8 Oct 2026

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

robots.txt

As read on 8 Oct 2026, 1,700 bytes. 1 rule group name AI crawlers; shown first.

User-agent: Googlebot
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
User-agent: Googlebot-Video
User-agent: Googlebot-News
User-agent: Google-InspectionTool
User-agent: GoogleOther
User-agent: APIs-Google
User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
User-agent: DuckDuckBot
User-agent: Slurp
User-agent: Twitterbot
User-agent: Bingbot
User-agent: adidxbot
User-agent: MicrosoftPreview
User-agent: Applebot
User-agent: AdsBot-Google
User-agent: AmazonAdBot
User-agent: facebookexternalhit
User-agent: Yahoo Ad Monitoring
User-agent: parse.ly scraper
User-agent: Screaming Frog SEO Spider
User-agent: SemrushBot
User-agent: Botify
User-agent: OnCrawl
User-agent: Chrome-Lighthouse
User-agent: Slackbot-LinkExpanding
User-agent: Slack-ImgProxy
User-agent: Slackbot
User-agent: Snap URL Preview Service
User-agent: proximic
User-agent: GumGum-Bot
User-agent: TTD-Content
User-agent: Pubmatic
User-agent: ias_crawler
User-agent: outbrain
User-agent: Leikibot
User-agent: weborama-fetcher
User-agent: AHC/2.1
User-agent: SirdataBot
User-agent: peer39_crawler/1.0
User-agent: EchoboxBot/1.0
User-agent: CriteoBot/0.1
User-agent: AdDefend Site Context Crawler/1.0
User-agent: SmartologyBot
User-agent: Dianomi
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /archive/page/
Disallow: /archive/article/
Disallow: /archive/find/
Disallow: /tto/archive/article/
Disallow: /tto/archive/find/
Disallow: /tto/archive/frame/article/
Disallow: /tto/archive/page/

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

History

Changes recorded since June 2026.

No change recorded.

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United Kingdom
73.8% block at least one AI crawler
Behind Cloudflare
No
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