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Yomiuri Shimbun Online

yomiuri.co.jp · Japan · The Yomiuri Shimbun · 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, 3,619 bytes. 5 rule groups name AI crawlers; shown first.

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User-agent: Ai2Bot-Dolma
User-agent: AmazonBot
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
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User-agent: Bytespider
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: cohere-ai
User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler
User-agent: Crawlspace
User-agent: curl
User-agent: Diffbot
User-agent: Fess
User-agent: FriendlyCrawler
User-agent: Gensparkbot
User-agent: GoogleOther
User-agent: ia_archiver
User-agent: iaskspider/2.0
User-agent: ICC-Crawler
User-agent: ImagesiftBot
User-agent: img2dataset
User-agent: indexpert
User-agent: ISSCyberRiskCrawler
User-agent: Java
User-agent: Kangaroo Bot
User-agent: libwww
User-agent: libwww-perl
User-agent: magpie-crawler
User-agent: Mechanize
User-agent: Megalodon
User-agent: meta-webindexer
User-agent: NovaAct
User-agent: Nutch
User-agent: omgili
User-agent: omgilibot
User-agent: OpenindexSpider
User-agent: Operator
User-agent: PanguBot
User-agent: Perplexity-ai
User-agent: Perplexity-User
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: SBIntuitionsBot
User-agent: SBIntuitions-SearchBot
User-agent: Scrapy
User-agent: SemrushBot-OCOB
User-agent: SemrushBot-SWA
User-agent: Sidetrade indexer bot
User-agent: Timpibot
User-agent: VelenPublicWebCrawler
User-agent: Webzio-Extended
User-agent: wget
User-agent: YouBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
User-agent: Claude-User
User-agent: Claude-Web
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: FacebookBot
Disallow: /
Allow: /adv/
Allow: /sponsored/

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Disallow: /
Allow: /teen/
Allow: /kyoiku/support
Allow: /adv/
Allow: /sponsored/

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /
Allow: /adv/
Allow: /news
Allow: /sponsored/
Allow: /*2026
Disallow: /*result*2
Disallow: /*2*result
Disallow: /assets/*2
Disallow: /bosai-nippon
Disallow: /comic/*2
Disallow: /coupon/*2
Disallow: /crossword
Disallow: /culture/book/reviews
Disallow: /culture/book/columns
Disallow: /culture/hochi
Disallow: /culture/hulu
Disallow: /culture/nagaieye
Disallow: /fukayomi/toyokeizai
Disallow: /giants/archive
Disallow: /hakone-ekiden/history
Disallow: /hobby/atcars/impression
Disallow: /hobby/atcars/info
Disallow: /hobby/travel/ryokou-select
Disallow: /igoshougi/kisei/kansenki
Disallow: /igoshougi/ryuoh/kansenki
Disallow: /images/*2
Disallow: /kodomo/sheet/
Disallow: /kyoiku/support/ranger
Disallow: /life/food-column
Disallow: /life/horoscope
Disallow: /life/online
Disallow: /life/recipe
Disallow: /market/*202
Disallow: /media/*202
Disallow: /medical/brain
Disallow: /medical/men
Disallow: /neko-pitcher
Disallow: /novel/*2
Disallow: /nyushi/*2
Disallow: /otekomachi
Disallow: /photograph/kyoshitsu
Disallow: /photograph/photogp
Disallow: /photograph/ypc
Disallow: /photograph/ypcex
Disallow: /pluralphoto
Disallow: /r/ims/*20
Disallow: /s/ims/*20
Disallow: /serial/earth
Disallow: /serial/webkiryu
Disallow: /shimen/*20
Disallow: /slides/*20
Disallow: /slitherlink
Disallow: /stream/*20
Disallow: /sudoku/*20
Disallow: /weather/*20
Disallow: /world/nieman
Disallow: /ybooks
Disallow: /yomidr/*2
Disallow: /yomiuri333

User-agent: meta-externalagent
User-agent: meta-externalfetcher
Disallow: /
Allow: /teen/
Allow: /kyoiku/support
Allow: /adv/
Allow: /sponsored/

User-agent: AmazonAdBot
Allow: /

User-agent: facebookexternalhit
Disallow: /
Allow: /teen/
Allow: /kyoiku/support

User-agent: facebookcatalog
Disallow: /
Allow: /teen/
Allow: /kyoiku/support

User-agent: bingbot
Disallow: /web-search
Disallow: /bosai-nippon/search

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /adv/*.swf$
Disallow: /member/
Sitemap: https://www.yomiuri.co.jp/sitemap.xml

History

Changes recorded since June 2026.

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In context

Japan
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Behind Cloudflare
No
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