Does mercadolibre.com.ar block AI crawlers?
Blocks AI training and AI answers
mercadolibre.com.ar blocks both AI training crawlers and AI answer crawlers in its robots.txt.
Checked from mercadolibre.com.ar/robots.txt. Robots rules change; the live file is the source of truth.
- AI crawlers blocked
- 5 of 12
- AI bots named in robots.txt
- 5
- llms.txt
- Not found
- Popularity
- Tranco top 1,000 (#948)
Can AI assistants cite mercadolibre.com.ar?
- ChatGPT search: its search crawler is blocked
- Claude: its search crawler is blocked
- Perplexity: its search crawler is blocked
mercadolibre.com.ar opts out of AI training by OpenAI, Anthropic. 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 mercadolibre.com.ar |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBotOpenAI | AI training | Blocked |
| OAI-SearchBotOpenAI | AI answers | Some paths restricted |
| ChatGPT-UserOpenAI | AI answers | Blocked |
| ClaudeBotAnthropic | AI training | Blocked |
| Claude-SearchBotAnthropic | AI answers | Some paths restricted |
| Claude-UserAnthropic | AI answers | Blocked |
| PerplexityBotPerplexity | AI answers | Blocked |
| 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 mercadolibre.com.ar compares
- 19% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block GPTBot; mercadolibre.com.ar is one of them.
- 18% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block ClaudeBot; mercadolibre.com.ar is one of them.
- 14% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block PerplexityBot; mercadolibre.com.ar is one of them.
- Among 201 sites of similar popularity, 32% block at least one AI crawler.
The robots.txt rules that apply to AI crawlers
User-agent: Amazonbot User-agent: PerplexityBot User-agent: Perplexity-User User-agent: ClaudeBot User-agent: Claude-User User-agent: GPTBot User-agent: ChatGPT-User Disallow: / User-agent: * Disallow: /HOME/ Disallow: /gz/merch/ Disallow: /gz/menu Disallow: /gz/webdevice/config Disallow: /gz/referidos Disallow: /*www.siteinfo.cf Disallow: /gz/cart/ Disallow: /gz/checkout/ Disallow: /gz/user-logged Disallow: /gz/shipping-selector Disallow: /gz/navigation/searches/last Disallow: /pagina/*_id Disallow: /tienda/*_id Disallow: /p/api/frontend-statsd* Disallow: /perfil/vendedor/ Disallow: /perfil/comprador/ Disallow: /perfil/profile/ Disallow: /perfil/jm/profile Disallow: /perfil/ALEXSETHMS Disallow: /noindex/ Disallow: /navigation/ Disallow: /*itemid Disallow: /*/jm/item Disallow: /recommendations* Disallow: /*attributes= Disallow: /*quantity= Disallow: /org-img/html/ Disallow: /registration?confirmation_url* Disallow: /home/recommendations Disallow: /social/ Disallow: /adn/api* Disallow: /product-fe-recommendations/recommendations* Disallow: /*.js Disallow: /finditem.ml Disallow: /afiliados/item/ Disallow: /clips?short_id= Disallow: /clips?*&short_id= Disallow: /clips/?short_id= Disallow: /clips/?*&short_id= Disallow: /*redirect_to_reviews=
Excerpt: only groups for all user-agents (*) or named AI crawlers, up to 40 rules per group.
Sites with a similar AI policy
Does mercadolibre.com.ar block GPTBot?
Yes. As of Oct 2, 2026, mercadolibre.com.ar's robots.txt disallows GPTBot, OpenAI's training crawler.
Can ChatGPT search show results from mercadolibre.com.ar?
Its robots.txt blocks a ChatGPT search crawler, so ChatGPT search is unlikely to read or cite those pages.
Does mercadolibre.com.ar have an llms.txt file?
We didn't find a valid llms.txt at mercadolibre.com.ar/llms.txt when we checked.
Data: mercadolibre.com.ar's public robots.txt and llms.txt, fetched by AskableHQ. Popularity rank from the Tranco list (ID Y83YG). Methodology.