Does hawaii.edu block AI crawlers?
Open to AI crawlers
hawaii.edu doesn't block any of the major AI crawlers we track in its robots.txt.
Checked from hawaii.edu/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 (#3,470)
Can AI assistants cite hawaii.edu?
- 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
hawaii.edu 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 hawaii.edu |
|---|---|---|
| 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 hawaii.edu compares
- 19% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block GPTBot; hawaii.edu does not.
- 18% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block ClaudeBot; hawaii.edu does not.
- 14% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block PerplexityBot; hawaii.edu does not.
- Among 108 sites of similar popularity, 26% block at least one AI crawler.
The robots.txt rules that apply to AI crawlers
User-agent: * Disallow: /tip2008 Disallow: /dir/pdf Disallow: /institutionalresearch Disallow: /sls/sls Disallow: /bjs Disallow: /bls Disallow: /bwiki Disallow: /casl2 Disallow: /cip Disallow: /dw Disallow: /ecafe Disallow: /epmt Disallow: /filedrop Disallow: /institutionalresearch Disallow: /irodr Disallow: /its/ws/holiday Disallow: /itsadmin Disallow: /jira Disallow: /leave Disallow: /odsdd Disallow: /payroll/paystub Disallow: /pfstest Disallow: /policy/docs/temp Disallow: /prof Disallow: /profileService Disallow: /taps Disallow: /testaging Disallow: /transferdatabase Disallow: /trvl Disallow: /workflow
Excerpt: only groups for all user-agents (*) or named AI crawlers, up to 40 rules per group.
Sites with a similar AI policy
Does hawaii.edu block GPTBot?
No. As of Oct 2, 2026, hawaii.edu's robots.txt doesn't block GPTBot, though some paths are restricted for all crawlers.
Can ChatGPT search show results from hawaii.edu?
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 hawaii.edu have an llms.txt file?
We didn't find a valid llms.txt at hawaii.edu/llms.txt when we checked.
Data: hawaii.edu's public robots.txt and llms.txt, fetched by AskableHQ. Popularity rank from the Tranco list (ID Y83YG). Methodology.