Does flaticon.com block AI crawlers?
Open to AI crawlers
flaticon.com doesn't block any of the major AI crawlers we track in its robots.txt.
Checked from flaticon.com/robots.txt. Robots rules change; the live file is the source of truth.
- AI crawlers blocked
- 0 of 12
- AI bots named in robots.txt
- 0
- llms.txt
- Not found
- Popularity
- Tranco top 5,000 (#2,603)
Can AI assistants cite flaticon.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
flaticon.com doesn't opt out of AI model training through robots.txt. 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 flaticon.com |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBotOpenAI | AI training | Some paths restricted |
| OAI-SearchBotOpenAI | AI answers | Some paths restricted |
| ChatGPT-UserOpenAI | AI answers | Some paths restricted |
| ClaudeBotAnthropic | AI training | Some paths restricted |
| Claude-SearchBotAnthropic | AI answers | Some paths restricted |
| Claude-UserAnthropic | AI answers | Some paths restricted |
| PerplexityBotPerplexity | AI answers | Some paths restricted |
| Google-ExtendedGoogle | AI training | Some paths restricted |
| Applebot-ExtendedApple | AI training | Some paths restricted |
| CCBotCommon Crawl | AI training | Some paths restricted |
| BytespiderByteDance | AI training | Some paths restricted |
| Meta-ExternalAgentMeta | AI training | Some paths restricted |
How flaticon.com compares
- 19% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block GPTBot; flaticon.com does not.
- 18% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block ClaudeBot; flaticon.com does not.
- 14% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block PerplexityBot; flaticon.com does not.
- Among 191 sites of similar popularity, 23% block at least one AI crawler.
The robots.txt rules that apply to AI crawlers
User-agent: * Allow: / Disallow: /ajax/ Disallow: /kr/ajax/ Disallow: /de/ajax/ Disallow: /fr/ajax/ Disallow: /br/ajax/ Disallow: /ru/ajax/ Disallow: /test/ Disallow: /edge/ Disallow: /search Disallow: /kr/search Disallow: /de/suche Disallow: /fr/chercher Disallow: /br/buscar Disallow: /ru/search Disallow: /pack/search Disallow: /br/pack/buscar Disallow: /de/pack/suche Disallow: /fr/pack/chercher Disallow: /kr/pack/search Disallow: /ur/pack/search Disallow: /p/_ Disallow: /i/_ Disallow: /packs/search?word Disallow: /br/pacotes/buscar?word Disallow: /de/packs/suche?word Disallow: /fr/packs/chercher?word Disallow: /kr/packs/search?word Disallow: /svg/vstatic/svg/ Disallow: /authors/*/* Disallow: /ru/authors/*/* Disallow: /kr/authors/*/* Disallow: /fr/auteurs/*/* Disallow: /de/autoren/*/* Disallow: /br/autores/*/* Disallow: /svg/static/icons/svg/ Disallow: /style Disallow: /de/style Disallow: /br/style Disallow: /fr/style
Excerpt: only groups for all user-agents (*) or named AI crawlers, up to 40 rules per group.
Sites with a similar AI policy
Does flaticon.com block GPTBot?
No. As of Oct 2, 2026, flaticon.com's robots.txt doesn't block GPTBot, though some paths are restricted for all crawlers.
Can ChatGPT search show results from flaticon.com?
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 flaticon.com have an llms.txt file?
We didn't find a valid llms.txt at flaticon.com/llms.txt when we checked.
Data: flaticon.com's public robots.txt and llms.txt, fetched by AskableHQ. Popularity rank from the Tranco list (ID Y83YG). Methodology.