Does indeed.com block AI crawlers?
Open to AI crawlers
indeed.com doesn't block any of the major AI crawlers we track in its robots.txt.
Checked from indeed.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
- 13
- llms.txt
- Not found
- Popularity
- Tranco top 500 (#410)
Can AI assistants cite indeed.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
indeed.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 indeed.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 indeed.com compares
- 19% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block GPTBot; indeed.com does not.
- 18% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block ClaudeBot; indeed.com does not.
- 14% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block PerplexityBot; indeed.com does not.
- Among 195 sites of similar popularity, 30% block at least one AI crawler.
The robots.txt rules that apply to AI crawlers
User-agent: * Allow: / Allow: /*&start=0& Allow: /*&start=10& Allow: /*&start=20& Allow: /*&start=30& Allow: /*&start=40& Allow: /*&start=50& Allow: /*&start=60& Allow: /*&start=70& Allow: /*&start=80& Allow: /*&start=90& Disallow: /*rt=nc Disallow: /*&alid= Disallow: /*&calert= Disallow: /*&iafilter= Disallow: /*&mna= Disallow: /*?rss Disallow: /*&serpstart= Disallow: /*/vaclk Disallow: /addlLoc/ Disallow: /ads/ Disallow: /advanced_search Disallow: /alert Disallow: /api/fetch/mc-anon Disallow: /api/getrecjobs Disallow: /applystart Disallow: /cmp/_/ Disallow: /cmp/_c/claim/* Disallow: /cmp/_rpc/ Disallow: /cmp/addlink Disallow: /cmp/addvideo Disallow: /cmp/Login* Disallow: /cmp/*/analytics Disallow: /cmp/*/company-questions Disallow: /cmp/*/people Disallow: /cmp/*/write-review Disallow: /community/ Disallow: /company/* Disallow: /conversion/ Disallow: /cookiemigrator/ User-agent: Googlebot User-agent: Google-Extended User-agent: ChatGPT-User User-agent: Slurp User-agent: DuckDuckBot User-agent: YahooJP User-agent: PetalBot User-agent: PerplexityBot User-agent: DuckAssistBot User-agent: Perplexity-User User-agent: YouBot User-agent: Claude-User User-agent: Gemini-Deep-Research User-agent: Claude-SearchBot User-agent: OAI-SearchBot User-agent: Google-Agent User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot User-agent: Meta-WebIndexer User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher User-agent: xAI-Grok User-agent: Grok-DeepSearch Allow: / Allow: /*&start=0& Allow: /*&start=10& Allow: /*&start=20& Allow: /*&start=30& Allow: /*&start=40& Allow: /*&start=50& Allow: /*&start=60& Allow: /*&start=70& Allow: /*&start=80& Allow: /*&start=90& Disallow: /*rt=nc Disallow: /*&alid= Disallow: /*&calert= Disallow: /*&iafilter= Disallow: /*&mna= Disallow: /*?rss Disallow: /*&serpstart= Disallow: /*/vaclk Disallow: /addlLoc/ Disallow: /ads/ Disallow: /advanced_search Disallow: /alert Disallow: /api/fetch/mc-anon Disallow: /api/getrecjobs Disallow: /applystart Disallow: /cmp/_/ Disallow: /cmp/_c/claim/* Disallow: /cmp/_rpc/ Disallow: /cmp/addlink Disallow: /cmp/addvideo Disallow: /cmp/Login* Disallow: /cmp/*/analytics Disallow: /cmp/*/company-questions Disallow: /cmp/*/people Disallow: /cmp/*/write-review Disallow: /community/ Disallow: /company/* Disallow: /conversion/ Disallow: /cookiemigrator/ User-agent: GPTBot User-agent: CCBot User-agent: anthropic-ai User-agent: FacebookBot User-agent: AmazonBot User-agent: Applebot-Extended User-agent: Bytespider User-agent: Baiduspider User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler User-agent: FriendlyCrawler User-agent: img2dataset User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent User-agent: ClaudeBot User-agent: DeepSeekBot User-agent: GrokBot User-agent: Diffbot User-agent: AI2Bot User-agent: PanguBot User-agent: Timpibot Allow: /*&start=0& Allow: /*&start=10& Allow: /*&start=20& Allow: /*&start=30& Allow: /*&start=40& Allow: /*&start=50& Allow: /*&start=60& Allow: /*&start=70& Allow: /*&start=80& Allow: /*&start=90& Disallow: /*rt=nc Disallow: /*&alid= Disallow: /*&calert= Disallow: /*&iafilter= Disallow: /*&mna= Disallow: /*?rss Disallow: /*&serpstart= Disallow: /*/vaclk Disallow: /addlLoc/ Disallow: /ads/ Disallow: /advanced_search Disallow: /alert Disallow: /api/fetch/mc-anon Disallow: /api/getrecjobs Disallow: /applystart Disallow: /community/ Disallow: /company/* Disallow: /conversion/ Disallow: /cookiemigrator/ Disallow: /create-resume/lp/ Disallow: /cdn-cgi/ Disallow: /%E4%BB%95%E4%BA%8B? Disallow: /%E6%B1%82%E4%BA%BA/JP/ Disallow: /%E6%B1%82%E4%BA%BA/title/ Disallow: /%E8%81%8C%E4%BD%8D%E6%98%BE%E7%A4%BA? Disallow: /%EC%B7%A8%EC%97%85/KR/ Disallow: /%EC%B7%A8%EC%97%85/title/ Disallow: /empleo/ Disallow: /emploi/ Disallow: /emplois/FR/
Excerpt: only groups for all user-agents (*) or named AI crawlers, up to 40 rules per group.
Sites with a similar AI policy
Does indeed.com block GPTBot?
No. As of Oct 2, 2026, indeed.com's robots.txt doesn't block GPTBot, though some paths are restricted for all crawlers.
Can ChatGPT search show results from indeed.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 indeed.com have an llms.txt file?
We didn't find a valid llms.txt at indeed.com/llms.txt when we checked.
Data: indeed.com's public robots.txt and llms.txt, fetched by AskableHQ. Popularity rank from the Tranco list (ID Y83YG). Methodology.