Does goodreads.com block AI crawlers?

Can AI assistants cite goodreads.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

goodreads.com opts out of AI training by OpenAI, 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 goodreads.com compares

• 19% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block GPTBot; goodreads.com is one of them.
• 18% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block ClaudeBot; goodreads.com does not.
• 14% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block PerplexityBot; goodreads.com does not.
• Among 208 sites of similar popularity, 28% block at least one AI crawler.

The robots.txt rules that apply to AI crawlers

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: *
Allow: /work/editions
Allow: /work/quotes
Disallow: /about/team_member/
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /api
Disallow: /blog/list_rss
Disallow: /book/reviews/
Disallow: /book_link/follow/
Disallow: /buy_buttons/
Disallow: /ebooks
Disallow: /friend/add_as_friend
Disallow: /home/index_rss
Disallow: /oggiPlayerLoader.htm
Disallow: /photo/group/
Disallow: /quotes/list_rss
Disallow: /review/list
Disallow: /review/list_rss
Disallow: /review/rate
Disallow: /review/show
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /shelf/user_shelves
Disallow: /tooltips
Disallow: /track
Disallow: /trivia/answer
Disallow: /user/updates_rss
Disallow: /user/year_in_books
Disallow: /videos/
Disallow: /work
Disallow: /*reviewFilters

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

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• pixabay.com · 6 blocked
• aol.com · 5 blocked
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• go.com · 2 blocked
• scribd.com · 3 blocked
• behance.net · 7 blocked
• globo.com · 3 blocked
• slideshare.net · 3 blocked

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