Does flipboard.com block AI crawlers?

Can AI assistants cite flipboard.com?

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

flipboard.com opts out of AI training by OpenAI, Common Crawl, ByteDance. 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 flipboard.com compares

• 19% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block GPTBot; flipboard.com is one of them.
• 18% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block ClaudeBot; flipboard.com does not.
• 14% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block PerplexityBot; flipboard.com does not.
• Among 166 sites of similar popularity, 25% block at least one AI crawler.

The robots.txt rules that apply to AI crawlers

User-agent: .ai
User-agent: Agentic
User-agent: AI Article Writer
User-agent: AI Content Detector
User-agent: AI Dungeon
User-agent: AI Search Engine
User-agent: AI SEO Crawler
User-agent: AI Writer
User-agent: AI21 Labs
User-agent: AI2Bot
User-agent: AIBot
User-agent: AIMatrix
User-agent: AISearchBot
User-agent: AI Training
User-agent: AITraining
User-agent: Alexa
User-agent: Alpha AI
User-agent: AlphaAI
User-agent: Amazon Bedrock
User-agent: Amazon-Kendra
User-agent: Amazon Lex
User-agent: Amazon Comprehend
User-agent: Amazon Sagemaker
User-agent: Amazon Silk
User-agent: Amazon Textract
User-agent: AmazonBot
User-agent: Amelia
User-agent: AndersPinkBot
User-agent: Anthropic
User-agent: AnyPicker
User-agent: Anyword
User-agent: Aria Browse
User-agent: Articoolo
User-agent: Automated Writer
User-agent: AwarioRssBot
User-agent: AwarioSmartBot
User-agent: Azure
User-agent: BardBot
User-agent: Brave Leo
User-agent: ByteDance
User-agent: Bytespider
User-agent: CatBoost
User-agent: CC-Crawler
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: ChatGLM
User-agent: Chinchilla
User-agent: Claude
User-agent: ClearScope
User-agent: Cohere
User-agent: Common Crawl
User-agent: CommonCrawl
User-agent: Content Harmony
User-agent: Content King
User-agent: Content Optimizer
User-agent: Content Samurai
User-agent: ContentAtScale
User-agent: ContentBot
User-agent: Contentedge
User-agent: Conversion AI
User-agent: Copilot
User-agent: CopyAI
User-agent: Copymatic
User-agent: Copyscape
User-agent: Cotoyogi
User-agent: CrawlQ AI
User-agent: Crawlspace
User-agent: Crew AI
User-agent: CrewAI
User-agent: DALL-E
User-agent: DataForSeoBot
User-agent: DataProvider
User-agent: DeepAI
User-agent: DeepL
User-agent: DeepMind
User-agent: DeepSeek
User-agent: Diffbot
User-agent: Doubao AI
User-agent: DuckAssistBot
User-agent: FacebookBot
User-agent: FacebookExternalHit
User-agent: Falcon
User-agent: Firecrawl
User-agent: Flyriver
User-agent: Frase AI
User-agent: FriendlyCrawler
User-agent: Gemini
User-agent: Gemma
User-agent: GenAI
User-agent: Genspark
User-agent: GLM
User-agent: Goose
User-agent: GPT
User-agent: Grammarly
User-agent: Grendizer
User-agent: Grok
User-agent: GT Bot
User-agent: GTBot
User-agent: Hemingway Editor
User-agent: Hugging Face
User-agent: Hypotenuse AI
User-agent: iaskspider
User-agent: ICC-Crawler
User-agent: ImageGen
User-agent: ImagesiftBot
User-agent: img2dataset
User-agent: INK Editor
User-agent: INKforall
User-agent: IntelliSeek
User-agent: Inferkit
User-agent: ISSCyberRiskCrawler
User-agent: JasperAI
User-agent: Kafkai
User-agent: Kangaroo
User-agent: Keyword Density AI
User-agent: Knowledge
User-agent: KomoBot
User-agent: LLaMA
User-agent: LLMs
User-agent: magpie-crawler
User-agent: MarketMuse
User-agent: Meltwater
User-agent: Meta AI
User-agent: Meta-AI
User-agent: Meta-External
User-agent: MetaAI
User-agent: MetaTagBot
User-agent: Mistral
User-agent: Narrative
User-agent: NeevaBot
User-agent: Neural Text
User-agent: NeuralSEO
User-agent: Nova Act
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-agent: Omgili
User-agent: Open AI
User-agent: OpenAI
User-agent: OpenBot
User-agent: OpenText AI
User-agent: Operator
User-agent: Outwrite
User-agent: Page Analyzer AI
User-agent: PanguBot
User-agent: Paperlibot
User-agent: Paraphraser.io
User-agent: Perplexity
User-agent: PetalBot
User-agent: Phindbot
User-agent: PiplBot
User-agent: ProWritingAid
User-agent: QuillBot
User-agent: RobotSpider
User-agent: Rytr
User-agent: SaplingAI
User-agent: Scalenut
User-agent: Scraper
User-agent: Scrapy
User-agent: ScriptBook
User-agent: SEO Content Machine
User-agent: SEO Robot
User-agent: Sentibot
User-agent: Sidetrade
User-agent: Simplified AI
User-agent: Sitefinity
User-agent: Skydancer
User-agent: SlickWrite
User-agent: Sonic
User-agent: Spin Rewriter
User-agent: Spinbot
User-agent: Stability
User-agent: StableDiffusionBot
User-agent: Sudowrite
User-agent: Super Agent
User-agent: Surfer AI
User-agent: Text Blaze
User-agent: TextCortex
User-agent: The Knowledge AI
User-agent: Timpibot
User-agent: Vidnami AI
User-agent: Webzio
User-agent: Whisper
User-agent: WordAI
User-agent: Wordtune
User-agent: WormsGTP
User-agent: WPBot
User-agent: Writecream
User-agent: WriterZen
User-agent: Writescope
User-agent: Writesonic
User-agent: xAI
User-agent: xBot
User-agent: YouBot
User-agent: Zero GTP
User-agent: Zerochat
User-agent: Zhipu
User-agent: Zimm
User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /analytics/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /bookmarklet/
Disallow: /editor/
Disallow: /getflipit
Disallow: /logout
Disallow: /notifications
Disallow: /post
Disallow: /oauth/
Disallow: /redirect?
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /signout
Disallow: /static/ebsa/
Disallow: /static/gfs/
Disallow: /zite-importer
Disallow: /.well-known/
Disallow: /section
Disallow: /cover/

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

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