Does cnbc.com block AI crawlers?
Blocks AI training and AI answers
cnbc.com blocks both AI training crawlers and AI answer crawlers in its robots.txt.
Checked from cnbc.com/robots.txt. Robots rules change; the live file is the source of truth.
- AI crawlers blocked
- 11 of 12
- AI bots named in robots.txt
- 12
- llms.txt
- Not found
- Popularity
- Tranco top 500 (#482)
Can AI assistants cite cnbc.com?
- ChatGPT search: its search crawler is blocked
- Claude: its search crawler is blocked
- Perplexity: its search crawler is blocked
cnbc.com opts out of AI training by OpenAI, 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
| Crawler | Used for | Status on cnbc.com |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBotOpenAI | AI training | Blocked |
| OAI-SearchBotOpenAI | AI answers | Blocked |
| ChatGPT-UserOpenAI | AI answers | Blocked |
| ClaudeBotAnthropic | AI training | Blocked |
| Claude-SearchBotAnthropic | AI answers | Some paths restricted |
| Claude-UserAnthropic | AI answers | Blocked |
| PerplexityBotPerplexity | AI answers | Blocked |
| Google-ExtendedGoogle | AI training | Blocked |
| Applebot-ExtendedApple | AI training | Blocked |
| CCBotCommon Crawl | AI training | Blocked |
| BytespiderByteDance | AI training | Blocked |
| Meta-ExternalAgentMeta | AI training | Blocked |
How cnbc.com compares
- 19% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block GPTBot; cnbc.com is one of them.
- 18% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block ClaudeBot; cnbc.com is one of them.
- 14% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block PerplexityBot; cnbc.com is one of them.
- Among 212 sites of similar popularity, 28% block at least one AI crawler.
The robots.txt rules that apply to AI crawlers
User-agent: GPTBot User-agent: PerplexityBot User-agent: Amazonbot User-agent: anthropic-ai User-agent: AwarioRssBot User-agent: AwarioSmartBot User-agent: Bytespider User-agent: CCBot User-agent: HuggingFaceBot User-agent: ChatGPT-User User-agent: ClaudeBot User-agent: Claude-Web User-agent: DataForSeoBot User-agent: Diffbot User-agent: FacebookBot User-agent: Google-Extended User-agent: Google-NotebookLM User-agent: Google-Agent User-agent: magpie-crawler User-agent: NewsNow User-agent: news-please User-agent: omgili User-agent: omgilibot User-agent: peer39_crawler User-agent: peer39_crawler/1.0 User-agent: Scrapy User-agent: TurnitinBot User-agent: cohere-ai User-agent: Applebot-Extended User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent User-agent: meta-externalagent User-agent: OAI-SearchBot User-agent: Claude-User User-agent: polymarket-news-bot User-agent: polymarket-news-bot User-agent: KalshiBot User-agent: polymarket-bot User-agent: OpenClaw User-agent: gold-ai-event-bridge User-agent: TradingBot User-agent: trading-pipeline User-agent: kalshi-bot User-agent: BivariateKalshiPipeline User-agent: Falcon Trading Platform User-agent: StockMarketAnalyser User-agent: FinanceApp User-agent: polyclaw-ingester User-agent: IsoxyTrader User-agent: Neo Trading Bot User-agent: MerlinChartWizard User-agent: investment-dashboard Allow: /select/ Disallow: / User-agent: * Disallow: /preview/ Disallow: /undefined/ Disallow: /proplayer Disallow: /appchart/* Disallow: /search/* Disallow: /search Disallow: /zephr/* Disallow: /blaize/*
Excerpt: only groups for all user-agents (*) or named AI crawlers, up to 40 rules per group.
Sites with a similar AI policy
Does cnbc.com block GPTBot?
Yes. As of Oct 2, 2026, cnbc.com's robots.txt disallows GPTBot, OpenAI's training crawler.
Can ChatGPT search show results from cnbc.com?
Its robots.txt blocks a ChatGPT search crawler, so ChatGPT search is unlikely to read or cite those pages.
Does cnbc.com have an llms.txt file?
We didn't find a valid llms.txt at cnbc.com/llms.txt when we checked.
Data: cnbc.com's public robots.txt and llms.txt, fetched by AskableHQ. Popularity rank from the Tranco list (ID Y83YG). Methodology.