Does euronews.com block AI crawlers?

Can AI assistants cite euronews.com?

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

euronews.com opts out of AI training by OpenAI, Google, 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

How euronews.com compares

• 19% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block GPTBot; euronews.com is one of them.
• 18% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block ClaudeBot; euronews.com does not.
• 14% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block PerplexityBot; euronews.com does not.
• Among 163 sites of similar popularity, 25% block at least one AI crawler.

The robots.txt rules that apply to AI crawlers

User-agent: *
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /media/Player6_0.swf*
Disallow: /js/main-*.js
Disallow: /js/streamsense-*.min.js
Disallow: /modules
Disallow: /plugin
Disallow: /src
Disallow: /handler
Disallow: /utils
Disallow: /lib
Disallow: /helper
Disallow: /update_
Disallow: /instances
Disallow: /dom
Disallow: /class
Disallow: /client
Disallow: /_partners/
Disallow: /login
Disallow: /register
Disallow: /internal/articles/previous/
Disallow: /internal/articles/next/
Disallow: /meteo/*p=
Disallow: /weather/*p=
Disallow: /wetter/*p=
Disallow: /tempo/*p=
Disallow: /tiempo/*p=
Disallow: /meteorologia/*p=
Disallow: /hava-durumu/*p=
Disallow: /idojaras/*p=

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: FirecrawlAgent
User-agent: AndiBot
User-agent: ExaBot
User-agent: PhindBot
User-agent: YouBot
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /media/Player6_0.swf*
Disallow: /js/main-*.js
Disallow: /js/streamsense-*.min.js
Disallow: /modules
Disallow: /plugin
Disallow: /src
Disallow: /handler
Disallow: /utils
Disallow: /lib
Disallow: /helper
Disallow: /update_
Disallow: /instances
Disallow: /dom
Disallow: /class
Disallow: /client
Disallow: /_partners/
Disallow: /login
Disallow: /register
Disallow: /meteo/*p=
Disallow: /weather/*p=
Disallow: /wetter/*p=
Disallow: /tempo/*p=
Disallow: /tiempo/*p=
Disallow: /meteorologia/*p=
Disallow: /hava-durumu/*p=
Disallow: /idojaras/*p=
Allow: /

User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /

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

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