Does dailymail.com block AI crawlers?

Can AI assistants cite dailymail.com?

• ChatGPT search: its search crawler is blocked
• Claude: its search crawler is blocked
• Perplexity: its search crawler is blocked

dailymail.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

How dailymail.com compares

• 19% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block GPTBot; dailymail.com is one of them.
• 18% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block ClaudeBot; dailymail.com is one of them.
• 14% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block PerplexityBot; dailymail.com is one of them.
• Among 196 sites of similar popularity, 28% block at least one AI crawler.

The robots.txt rules that apply to AI crawlers

User-agent: *
Disallow: /*readcommentshtml*
Disallow: /*login?redirectPath=
Disallow: /*logout?redirectPath=
Disallow: /*nextThread.html
Disallow: /*previousThread.html
Disallow: /*questionId*
Disallow: /*selectedImage*
Disallow: /*threadIndex=*
Disallow: /*topGallery*
Disallow: /ce/item.cms*
Disallow: /guide/*
Disallow: /registration/*
Disallow: /best-buys/clickout/*
Disallow: /best-buys/m/clickout/*
Disallow: /weather.html?latitude=*
Disallow: /weather.html?old=*
Disallow: /home/search.html*
Disallow: /best-buys/mercury/out*
Disallow: /api/infinite-list.html
Disallow: /api/infinite-list.html
Disallow: /mobileapps/*

User-agent: AhrefsBot
User-agent: AI2Bot
User-agent: Ai2Bot-Dolma
User-agent: Amazonbot
User-agent: amazon-kendra-
User-agent: anthropic-ai
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
User-agent: bedrockbot
User-agent: Bytespider
User-agent: CloudflareBrowserRenderingCrawler
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: ChatGLM-Spider
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
User-agent: Claude-User
User-agent: Claude-Web
User-agent: cohere-ai
User-agent: Cotoyogi
User-agent: DeepSeekBot
User-agent: Diffbot
User-agent: DuckAssistBot
User-agent: EchoboxBot
User-agent: FacebookBot
User-agent: FriendlyCrawler
User-agent: Gemini-Deep-Research
User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot
User-agent: Google-Extended
User-agent: GoogleOther-Image
User-agent: GoogleOther-Video
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: Grok
User-agent: iaskspider/2.0
User-agent: ICC-Crawler
User-agent: ImagesiftBot
User-agent: img2dataset
User-agent: ISSCyberRiskCrawler
User-agent: Kangaroo Bot
User-agent: KunatoCrawler
User-agent: LinerBot
User-agent: Meltwater
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher
User-agent: MistralAI-User
User-agent: OAI-Operator
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-agent: omgili
User-agent: omgilibot
User-agent: PanguBot
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: Perplexity-User
User-agent: PetalBot
User-agent: QualifiedBot
User-agent: Scrapy
User-agent: Seekr
User-agent: Sidetrade indexer bot
User-agent: TaraGroup Intelligent Bot
User-agent: TikTokSpider
User-agent: Timpibot
User-agent: VelenPublicWebCrawler
User-agent: WARDBot
User-agent: Webzio-Extended
User-agent: wpbot
User-agent: WRTNBot
User-agent: YouBot
Allow: /*_.html
Disallow: /

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

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