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variety.com

variety.com · United States · 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
Allowed

robots.txt

As read on 8 Oct 2026, 1,283 bytes. 20 rule groups name AI crawlers; shown first.

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: cohere-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: omgili
Disallow: /

User-agent: omgilibot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: DeepSeekBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Disallow: /

User-agent: Diffbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: FacebookBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Disallow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Timpibot
Disallow: /

User-agent: YouBot
Disallow: /

Sitemap: https://variety.com/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://variety.com/news-sitemap.xml

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Disallow: /?s=
Disallow: /*/?s=
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /search?
Disallow: *?v02
Disallow: *?replytocom
Disallow: /genre/
Disallow: /genre/*
Disallow: /*preview=true
Disallow: /*theme_preview=true

User-agent: ChatGPT
Disallow: /

User-agent: DeepSeek
Disallow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher
Disallow: /

User-agent: Webzio-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: cXensebot
Crawl-delay: 5

History

Changes recorded since June 2026.

No change recorded.

In context

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