Does ctvnews.ca block AI crawlers?
Blocks AI training and AI answers
ctvnews.ca blocks both AI training crawlers and AI answer crawlers in its robots.txt.
Checked from ctvnews.ca/robots.txt. Robots rules change; the live file is the source of truth.
- AI crawlers blocked
- 5 of 12
- AI bots named in robots.txt
- 6
- llms.txt
- Not found
- Popularity
- Tranco top 5,000 (#2,979)
Can AI assistants cite ctvnews.ca?
- ChatGPT search: its search crawler is blocked
- Claude: its search crawlers may read the site
- Perplexity: its search crawler is blocked
ctvnews.ca opts out of AI training by OpenAI, Common Crawl. 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 ctvnews.ca |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBotOpenAI | AI training | Blocked |
| OAI-SearchBotOpenAI | AI answers | Blocked |
| ChatGPT-UserOpenAI | AI answers | Blocked |
| ClaudeBotAnthropic | AI training | Some paths restricted |
| Claude-SearchBotAnthropic | AI answers | Some paths restricted |
| Claude-UserAnthropic | AI answers | Some paths restricted |
| PerplexityBotPerplexity | AI answers | Blocked |
| Google-ExtendedGoogle | AI training | Some paths restricted |
| Applebot-ExtendedApple | AI training | Some paths restricted |
| CCBotCommon Crawl | AI training | Blocked |
| BytespiderByteDance | AI training | Some paths restricted |
| Meta-ExternalAgentMeta | AI training | Some paths restricted |
How ctvnews.ca compares
- 19% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block GPTBot; ctvnews.ca is one of them.
- 18% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block ClaudeBot; ctvnews.ca does not.
- 14% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block PerplexityBot; ctvnews.ca is one of them.
- Among 166 sites of similar popularity, 25% block at least one AI crawler.
The robots.txt rules that apply to AI crawlers
User-agent: * Allow: / Disallow: /404/test Disallow: /captcha/ Disallow: /cmlink/ Disallow: /cm/ Disallow: /error/ Disallow: /rss/ Disallow: /redirect/ Disallow: /status/ Disallow: /errors/ Disallow: /*&cache=* Disallow: /*?cache=* Disallow: /mobile/ Disallow: /*-1.* Disallow: /content/ Disallow: /*.app$ Disallow: /polopoly_fs/ Disallow: /hot-topics/ Disallow: /1.* Disallow: /*-7.* Disallow: /CTVNews/T/ Disallow: /TopStories/20091117/ Disallow: /CTVNews/World/20120202/ Disallow: /kitchener/article/reduced-charge-allows-reporter-tieja-maclaughlin-to-return-to-canada/ Disallow: /kitchener/article/tieja-maclaughlin-pleads-not-guilty-to-harassment-in-us-court/ Disallow: /kitchener/article/former-kitchener-woman-accused-of-threatening-to-kill-hockey-player-boyfriend/ Disallow: /kitchener/article/charges-laid-against-reporter-accused-of-threatening-to-kill-boyfriend/ Disallow: /kitchener/article/brantford-councillors-consider-memorial-for-people-lost-to-overdoses/ User-agent: GPTBot Disallow: / User-agent: ChatGPT-User Disallow: / User-agent: OAI-SearchBot Disallow: / User-agent: PerplexityBot Disallow: / User-agent: CCBot Disallow: / User-agent: Anthropic-ai Disallow: /
Excerpt: only groups for all user-agents (*) or named AI crawlers, up to 40 rules per group.
Sites with a similar AI policy
Does ctvnews.ca block GPTBot?
Yes. As of Oct 2, 2026, ctvnews.ca's robots.txt disallows GPTBot, OpenAI's training crawler.
Can ChatGPT search show results from ctvnews.ca?
Its robots.txt blocks a ChatGPT search crawler, so ChatGPT search is unlikely to read or cite those pages.
Does ctvnews.ca have an llms.txt file?
We didn't find a valid llms.txt at ctvnews.ca/llms.txt when we checked.
Data: ctvnews.ca's public robots.txt and llms.txt, fetched by AskableHQ. Popularity rank from the Tranco list (ID Y83YG). Methodology.