spoton.com: AI crawler policy in robots.txt

Q: Does spoton.com block GPTBot?

No. robots.txt as fetched on 2026-10-10: spoton.com disallows 5 of 22 AI and search crawlers from the site root: CCBot, Bytespider, Diffbot, omgili, Timpibot. It leaves the search and citation crawlers and the user-action fetchers open.

robots.txt as fetched on 2026-10-10: spoton.com disallows 5 of 22 AI and search crawlers from the site root: CCBot, Bytespider, Diffbot, omgili, Timpibot. It leaves the search and citation crawlers and the user-action fetchers open.

A protective stance that stays visible to AI answers: the file refuses training crawlers and leaves open the crawlers that let answer engines cite and link the site.

This reports what the file asks. It does not show whether a crawler can actually reach the site: many sites also block crawlers at their CDN or firewall, and some crawlers ignore robots.txt.

Training crawlers

Disallowing these keeps a site's content out of future model training. It does not remove what was already collected.

Crawler	Operator	Status	How the file treats it
GPTBot	OpenAI	not disallowed	named in the file
ClaudeBot	Anthropic	not disallowed	named in the file
Google-Extended	Google	not disallowed	named in the file
CCBot	Common Crawl	disallowed	named in the file
meta-externalagent	Meta	not disallowed	named in the file
Bytespider	ByteDance	disallowed	named in the file
Applebot-Extended	Apple	not disallowed	named in the file
Amazonbot	Amazon	not disallowed	named in the file
cohere-ai	Cohere	not disallowed	named in the file
Diffbot	Diffbot	disallowed	named in the file
omgili	Webz.io	disallowed	named in the file
Timpibot	Timpi	disallowed	named in the file

Search and citation crawlers

These feed AI answer engines that cite and link their sources. Disallowing them can take a site out of AI answers and out of the referral traffic that comes with them.

Crawler	Operator	Status	How the file treats it
OAI-SearchBot	OpenAI	not disallowed	named in the file
PerplexityBot	Perplexity	not disallowed	named in the file
Claude-SearchBot	Anthropic	not disallowed	named in the file
DuckAssistBot	DuckDuckGo	not disallowed	covered by the default rule

User-action fetchers

These fetch a page live when a person asks an assistant about it. Disallowing them stops the assistant reading the page for that person.

Crawler	Operator	Status	How the file treats it
ChatGPT-User	OpenAI	not disallowed	named in the file
Perplexity-User	Perplexity	not disallowed	named in the file
Claude-User	Anthropic	not disallowed	named in the file
meta-externalfetcher	Meta	not disallowed	named in the file

Classic search crawlers

Classic search crawlers, shown as the baseline.

Crawler	Operator	Status	How the file treats it
Googlebot	Google	not disallowed	named in the file
Bingbot	Microsoft	not disallowed	named in the file

How spoton.com compares

Among 33,383 readable sites in the Top 50,000, 13.9% disallow GPTBot, 11.8% ClaudeBot, 6.0% OAI-SearchBot and 8.6% PerplexityBot. Among 32,014 readable .com sites: 12.5% disallow GPTBot, 10.6% ClaudeBot.

History

First read 2026-10-10; the file has not changed since. Read the file itself.

The AI-related lines in the file

User-agent: Googlebot
User-agent: Bingbot
# GPTBot = training
OAI-SearchBot = ChatGPT search index
# ChatGPT-User = user-initiated fetch (live retrieval)
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
# ClaudeBot = training
Claude-SearchBot = Claude search index
# Claude-User = user-initiated fetch
# Note: anthropic-ai and claude-web are deprecated but still listed defensively
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
User-agent: Claude-User
User-agent: anthropic-ai
# PerplexityBot = index
Perplexity-User = user-initiated (often ignores robots.txt)
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: Perplexity-User
# Google-Extended =

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