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Does aftonbladet.se block AI crawlers?

Blocks AI training and AI answers

aftonbladet.se blocks both AI training crawlers and AI answer crawlers in its robots.txt.

Checked from aftonbladet.se/robots.txt. Robots rules change; the live file is the source of truth.

AI crawlers blocked
8 of 12
AI bots named in robots.txt
10
llms.txt
Not found
Popularity
Tranco top 2,000 (#1,115)

Can AI assistants cite aftonbladet.se?

  • ChatGPT search: its search crawlers may read the site
  • Claude: its search crawler is blocked
  • Perplexity: its search crawler is blocked

aftonbladet.se opts out of AI training by Anthropic, Google, Apple, Common Crawl, ByteDance, Meta. Training crawlers and answer crawlers are separate: blocking training doesn't by itself remove a site from AI answers.

AI crawler access, bot by bot

CrawlerUsed forStatus on aftonbladet.se
GPTBotOpenAIAI trainingSome paths restricted
OAI-SearchBotOpenAIAI answersSome paths restricted
ChatGPT-UserOpenAIAI answersSome paths restricted
ClaudeBotAnthropicAI trainingBlocked
Claude-SearchBotAnthropicAI answersBlocked
Claude-UserAnthropicAI answersSome paths restricted
PerplexityBotPerplexityAI answersBlocked
Google-ExtendedGoogleAI trainingBlocked
Applebot-ExtendedAppleAI trainingBlocked
CCBotCommon CrawlAI trainingBlocked
BytespiderByteDanceAI trainingBlocked
Meta-ExternalAgentMetaAI trainingBlocked

How aftonbladet.se compares

  • 19% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block GPTBot; aftonbladet.se does not.
  • 18% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block ClaudeBot; aftonbladet.se is one of them.
  • 14% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block PerplexityBot; aftonbladet.se is one of them.
  • Among 201 sites of similar popularity, 31% block at least one AI crawler.

The robots.txt rules that apply to AI crawlers

User-agent: *
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Disallow: /sok*?*
Disallow: /contentstudio/
Disallow: /static/embed/
Disallow: /stories
Disallow: /arkiv*?*
Allow: /

User-agent: AI2Bot
User-agent: Ai2Bot-Dolma
User-agent: Amazonbot
User-agent: anthropic-ai
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
User-agent: Bytespider
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: Claude-Web
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
User-agent: cohere-ai
User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler
User-agent: Crawlspace
User-agent: Diffbot
User-agent: FacebookBot
User-agent: FriendlyCrawler
User-agent: Google-Extended
User-agent: iaskspider/2.0
User-agent: ICC-Crawler
User-agent: ImagesiftBot
User-agent: img2dataset
User-agent: Kangaroo Bot
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
User-agent: omgili
User-agent: omgilibot
User-agent: PanguBot
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: PetalBot
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: YouBot
Disallow: /

Excerpt: only groups for all user-agents (*) or named AI crawlers, up to 40 rules per group.

Sites with a similar AI policy

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Does aftonbladet.se block GPTBot?

No. As of Oct 2, 2026, aftonbladet.se's robots.txt doesn't block GPTBot, though some paths are restricted for all crawlers.

Can ChatGPT search show results from aftonbladet.se?

Its robots.txt doesn't block OAI-SearchBot or ChatGPT-User, so ChatGPT's search crawlers may read it. Whether pages are actually shown depends on ChatGPT.

Does aftonbladet.se have an llms.txt file?

We didn't find a valid llms.txt at aftonbladet.se/llms.txt when we checked.

Data: aftonbladet.se's public robots.txt and llms.txt, fetched by AskableHQ. Popularity rank from the Tranco list (ID Y83YG). Methodology.