Does meraki.com block AI crawlers?
Blocks AI training and AI answers
meraki.com blocks both AI training crawlers and AI answer crawlers in its robots.txt.
Checked from meraki.com/robots.txt. Robots rules change; the live file is the source of truth.
- AI crawlers blocked
- 11 of 12
- AI bots named in robots.txt
- 1
- llms.txt
- Not found
- Popularity
- Tranco top 500 (#251)
Can AI assistants cite meraki.com?
- ChatGPT search: its search crawler is blocked
- Claude: its search crawler is blocked
- Perplexity: its search crawler is blocked
meraki.com opts out of AI training by OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Apple, ByteDance, Meta. 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 meraki.com |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBotOpenAI | AI training | Blocked |
| OAI-SearchBotOpenAI | AI answers | Blocked |
| ChatGPT-UserOpenAI | AI answers | Blocked |
| ClaudeBotAnthropic | AI training | Blocked |
| Claude-SearchBotAnthropic | AI answers | Blocked |
| Claude-UserAnthropic | AI answers | Blocked |
| PerplexityBotPerplexity | AI answers | Blocked |
| Google-ExtendedGoogle | AI training | Blocked |
| Applebot-ExtendedApple | AI training | Blocked |
| CCBotCommon Crawl | AI training | Some paths restricted |
| BytespiderByteDance | AI training | Blocked |
| Meta-ExternalAgentMeta | AI training | Blocked |
How meraki.com compares
- 19% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block GPTBot; meraki.com is one of them.
- 18% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block ClaudeBot; meraki.com is one of them.
- 14% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block PerplexityBot; meraki.com is one of them.
- Among 195 sites of similar popularity, 34% block at least one AI crawler.
The robots.txt rules that apply to AI crawlers
User-agent: 360Spider User-agent: 360Spider-Image User-agent: 360Spider-Video User-agent: AdsBot-Google User-agent: AdsBot-Google-Mobile User-agent: AdsBot-Google-Mobile-Apps User-agent: adidxbot User-agent: Applebot User-agent: AppleNewsBot User-agent: Baiduspider User-agent: Baiduspider-image User-agent: Baiduspider-news User-agent: Baiduspider-video User-agent: bingbot User-agent: BingPreview User-agent: BublupBot User-agent: CCBot User-agent: Cliqzbot User-agent: coccoc User-agent: coccocbot-image User-agent: coccocbot-web User-agent: Daumoa User-agent: Dazoobot User-agent: DeuSu User-agent: DuckDuckBot User-agent: DuckDuckGo-Favicons-Bot User-agent: EuripBot User-agent: Exploratodo User-agent: Facebot User-agent: Feedly User-agent: Findxbot User-agent: Googlebot User-agent: Googlebot-Image User-agent: Googlebot-Mobile User-agent: Googlebot-News User-agent: Googlebot-Video User-agent: HaoSouSpider User-agent: ichiro User-agent: istellabot User-agent: JikeSpider User-agent: Lycos User-agent: Mail.Ru User-agent: Mediapartners-Google User-agent: MojeekBot User-agent: msnbot User-agent: msnbot-media User-agent: OrangeBot User-agent: Pinterest User-agent: Plukkie User-agent: Qwantify User-agent: Rambler User-agent: SeznamBot User-agent: Sosospider User-agent: Slurp User-agent: Sogou blog User-agent: Sogou inst spider User-agent: Sogou News Spider User-agent: Sogou Orion spider User-agent: Sogou spider2 User-agent: Sogou web spider User-agent: SputnikBot User-agent: Teoma User-agent: Twitterbot User-agent: wotbox User-agent: yacybot User-agent: Yandex User-agent: YandexMobileBot User-agent: Yeti User-agent: YioopBot User-agent: yoozBot User-agent: YoudaoBot Disallow: /wp-admin/ User-agent: * 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 meraki.com block GPTBot?
Yes. As of Oct 2, 2026, meraki.com's robots.txt disallows GPTBot, OpenAI's training crawler.
Can ChatGPT search show results from meraki.com?
Its robots.txt blocks a ChatGPT search crawler, so ChatGPT search is unlikely to read or cite those pages.
Does meraki.com have an llms.txt file?
We didn't find a valid llms.txt at meraki.com/llms.txt when we checked.
Data: meraki.com's public robots.txt and llms.txt, fetched by AskableHQ. Popularity rank from the Tranco list (ID Y83YG). Methodology.