Does ladepeche.fr block AI crawlers?
Blocks AI training and AI answers
ladepeche.fr blocks both AI training crawlers and AI answer crawlers in its robots.txt.
Checked from ladepeche.fr/robots.txt. Robots rules change; the live file is the source of truth.
- AI crawlers blocked
- 6 of 12
- AI bots named in robots.txt
- 9
- llms.txt
- Not found
- Popularity
- Tranco top 2,000 (#1,276)
Can AI assistants cite ladepeche.fr?
- ChatGPT search: its search crawlers may read the site
- Claude: its search crawlers may read the site
- Perplexity: its search crawler is blocked
ladepeche.fr opts out of AI training by OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, 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
| Crawler | Used for | Status on ladepeche.fr |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBotOpenAI | AI training | Blocked |
| OAI-SearchBotOpenAI | AI answers | Allowed |
| ChatGPT-UserOpenAI | AI answers | Allowed |
| ClaudeBotAnthropic | AI training | Blocked |
| Claude-SearchBotAnthropic | AI answers | Some paths restricted |
| Claude-UserAnthropic | AI answers | Some paths restricted |
| PerplexityBotPerplexity | AI answers | Blocked |
| Google-ExtendedGoogle | AI training | Blocked |
| Applebot-ExtendedApple | AI training | Some paths restricted |
| CCBotCommon Crawl | AI training | Blocked |
| BytespiderByteDance | AI training | Blocked |
| Meta-ExternalAgentMeta | AI training | Some paths restricted |
How ladepeche.fr compares
- 19% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block GPTBot; ladepeche.fr is one of them.
- 18% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block ClaudeBot; ladepeche.fr is one of them.
- 14% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block PerplexityBot; ladepeche.fr is one of them.
- Among 192 sites of similar popularity, 28% block at least one AI crawler.
The robots.txt rules that apply to AI crawlers
User-agent: * Disallow: /agenda Disallow: /api/ Disallow: /articles-les-plus/ Disallow: /preview/ Disallow: /recherche User-agent: anthropic-ai Disallow: / User-agent: Bytespider Disallow: / User-agent: CCBot Disallow: / User-agent: ChatGPT-User Disallow: User-agent: OAI-SearchBot Disallow: User-agent: ClaudeBot Disallow: / User-agent: Google-Extended Disallow: / User-agent: GPTBot Disallow: / User-agent: PerplexityBot 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 ladepeche.fr block GPTBot?
Yes. As of Oct 2, 2026, ladepeche.fr's robots.txt disallows GPTBot, OpenAI's training crawler.
Can ChatGPT search show results from ladepeche.fr?
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 ladepeche.fr have an llms.txt file?
We didn't find a valid llms.txt at ladepeche.fr/llms.txt when we checked.
Data: ladepeche.fr's public robots.txt and llms.txt, fetched by AskableHQ. Popularity rank from the Tranco list (ID Y83YG). Methodology.