Does genius.com block AI crawlers?
Blocks AI training and AI answers
genius.com blocks both AI training crawlers and AI answer crawlers in its robots.txt.
Checked from genius.com/robots.txt. Robots rules change; the live file is the source of truth.
- AI crawlers blocked
- 8 of 12
- AI bots named in robots.txt
- 9
- llms.txt
- Not found
- Popularity
- Tranco top 1,000 (#938)
Can AI assistants cite genius.com?
- ChatGPT search: its search crawler is blocked
- Claude: its search crawlers may read the site
- Perplexity: its search crawlers may read the site
genius.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
| Crawler | Used for | Status on genius.com |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBotOpenAI | AI training | Blocked |
| OAI-SearchBotOpenAI | AI answers | Some paths restricted |
| ChatGPT-UserOpenAI | AI answers | Blocked |
| ClaudeBotAnthropic | AI training | Blocked |
| Claude-SearchBotAnthropic | AI answers | Some paths restricted |
| Claude-UserAnthropic | AI answers | Some paths restricted |
| PerplexityBotPerplexity | AI answers | Some paths restricted |
| Google-ExtendedGoogle | AI training | Blocked |
| Applebot-ExtendedApple | AI training | Blocked |
| CCBotCommon Crawl | AI training | Blocked |
| BytespiderByteDance | AI training | Blocked |
| Meta-ExternalAgentMeta | AI training | Blocked |
How genius.com compares
- 19% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block GPTBot; genius.com is one of them.
- 18% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block ClaudeBot; genius.com is one of them.
- 14% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block PerplexityBot; genius.com does not.
- Among 200 sites of similar popularity, 30% block at least one AI crawler.
The robots.txt rules that apply to AI crawlers
User-agent: * Disallow: /songs/*/metadata Disallow: /songs/*/comments Disallow: /users/*/top_artist_iq_rank Disallow: /artists/*/top_iq_earners Disallow: /comments/for_profile_page Disallow: /bagon/* Disallow: /mecha/* Disallow: /account/unsubscribe/* Disallow: /email_notifications/*/unsubscribe Disallow: /annotations/*/report_as_abusive Disallow: /songs/for_profile_page Disallow: /api$ Disallow: /api/* Disallow: /search?* Disallow: /*/*/leaderboard Disallow: /songs/*/apple_music_player* Disallow: /songs/*/show_amp_header_play_toggle* Disallow: /guiver User-agent: Uniscan User-agent: Searchie User-agent: CCBot User-agent: ChatGPT-User User-agent: GPTBot User-agent: Google-Extended User-agent: Applebot-Extended User-agent: anthropic-ai User-agent: ClaudeBot User-agent: Omgilibot User-agent: Omgili User-agent: FacebookBot User-agent: Diffbot User-agent: Bytespider User-agent: ImagesiftBot User-agent: cohere-ai User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher User-agent: Timpibot User-agent: Webzio-Extended User-agent: YouBot 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 genius.com block GPTBot?
Yes. As of Oct 2, 2026, genius.com's robots.txt disallows GPTBot, OpenAI's training crawler.
Can ChatGPT search show results from genius.com?
Its robots.txt blocks a ChatGPT search crawler, so ChatGPT search is unlikely to read or cite those pages.
Does genius.com have an llms.txt file?
We didn't find a valid llms.txt at genius.com/llms.txt when we checked.
Data: genius.com's public robots.txt and llms.txt, fetched by AskableHQ. Popularity rank from the Tranco list (ID Y83YG). Methodology.