Does made-in-china.com block AI crawlers?
Open to AI crawlers
made-in-china.com doesn't block any of the major AI crawlers we track in its robots.txt.
Checked from made-in-china.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
- 10
- llms.txt
- Published
- Popularity
- Tranco top 5,000 (#2,272)
Can AI assistants cite made-in-china.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
made-in-china.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 made-in-china.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 made-in-china.com compares
- 19% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block GPTBot; made-in-china.com does not.
- 18% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block ClaudeBot; made-in-china.com does not.
- 14% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block PerplexityBot; made-in-china.com does not.
- Among 185 sites of similar popularity, 21% block at least one AI crawler.
The robots.txt rules that apply to AI crawlers
User-agent: * User-agent: AdsBot-Google User-agent: AdsBot-Google-Mobile Disallow: /*.do$ Disallow: /*.do? Disallow: /*.action$ Disallow: /*.action? Disallow: /sendInquiry/ Disallow: /browsing-history/ Disallow: /member/ Disallow: /ad?url= Disallow: /products-search/find-china-products/*-1.html Disallow: /errorDocs/ Disallow: /multi-search/ Disallow: */recommend/alsoLiked/* Disallow: /showroom/*/prod-question-count Disallow: /join/?sourceType Disallow: /start-order.html?from= Disallow: /go/ Disallow: /company-search/ Disallow: /deals/listProdDealsCoupon$ Disallow: /deals/listProdDealsCoupon? Disallow: /img-search/ Disallow: /qa/userInfo Disallow: /faw-store.html Disallow: /mlan/flow/copywriting Disallow: /ai-search/ Disallow: /products-search/ai-mode/ User-agent: * Disallow: /cs/ Disallow: /dt/ Disallow: /price-search/ Disallow: /quality-china-product/productSearch Disallow: /*html?* Disallow: /video-channel/view-* Disallow: /video-channel/category-* Allow: /price/prodetail_*?* User-agent: GPTBot User-agent: OAI-SearchBot User-agent: ChatGPT-User User-agent: Google-Extended User-agent: Gemini-Deep-Research User-agent: ClaudeBot User-agent: Claude-SearchBot User-agent: Claude-User User-agent: GrokBot User-agent: PerplexityBot User-agent: Perplexity-User User-agent: Applebot-Extended User-agent: CCBot Allow: /$ Allow: /robots.txt Allow: /*.xml* Allow: /products-search/ Allow: /manufacturers/ Allow: /factory/ Allow: /video-channel/ Allow: /help/ Allow: /faq/ Allow: /aboutus/ Allow: /audited-suppliers/ Allow: /infocentre/ Disallow: /products-search/ai-mode/
Excerpt: only groups for all user-agents (*) or named AI crawlers, up to 40 rules per group.
Sites with a similar AI policy
Does made-in-china.com block GPTBot?
No. As of Oct 2, 2026, made-in-china.com's robots.txt doesn't block GPTBot, though some paths are restricted for all crawlers.
Can ChatGPT search show results from made-in-china.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 made-in-china.com have an llms.txt file?
Yes — made-in-china.com/llms.txt was found when we checked.
Data: made-in-china.com's public robots.txt and llms.txt, fetched by AskableHQ. Popularity rank from the Tranco list (ID Y83YG). Methodology.