Does nymag.com block AI crawlers?
Blocks AI training and AI answers
nymag.com blocks both AI training crawlers and AI answer crawlers in its robots.txt.
Checked from nymag.com/robots.txt. Robots rules change; the live file is the source of truth.
- AI crawlers blocked
- 10 of 12
- AI bots named in robots.txt
- 12
- llms.txt
- Not found
- Popularity
- Tranco top 5,000 (#3,445)
Can AI assistants cite nymag.com?
- ChatGPT search: its search crawler is blocked
- Claude: its search crawler is blocked
- Perplexity: its search crawler is blocked
nymag.com opts out of AI training by Anthropic, Google, Apple, Common Crawl, 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 nymag.com |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBotOpenAI | AI training | Allowed |
| OAI-SearchBotOpenAI | AI answers | Some paths restricted |
| 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 | Blocked |
| BytespiderByteDance | AI training | Blocked |
| Meta-ExternalAgentMeta | AI training | Blocked |
How nymag.com compares
- 19% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block GPTBot; nymag.com does not.
- 18% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block ClaudeBot; nymag.com is one of them.
- 14% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block PerplexityBot; nymag.com is one of them.
- Among 117 sites of similar popularity, 24% block at least one AI crawler.
The robots.txt rules that apply to AI crawlers
User-agent: * Disallow: /coral-talk/ Disallow: /daily/grubstreet/ Disallow: /daily/southflorida/ Disallow: /fashion/lookbook/38917/ Disallow: /fashion/search/models/ Disallow: /jesse/ Disallow: /marketplace/ Disallow: /news/intelligencer/16951/ Disallow: /newsletter/ Disallow: /*/newsletter/ Disallow: /nymag/columns/intelligencer/features/16951/ Disallow: /nymag/letters/14872/ Disallow: /search.html Disallow: /search?* Disallow: /srch Disallow: /srch/ Disallow: /strategist/search Disallow: /tags/newsletters/ Disallow: /temp/ Disallow: /test/ Disallow: /urr/ Disallow: *?origSession=* Disallow: *?q=* Disallow: *?view_token=* User-agent: GPTBot Allow: / User-agent: anthropic-ai Disallow: / Allow: /sp/ Allow: /strategist User-agent: Applebot-Extended Disallow: / Allow: /sp/ Allow: /strategist User-agent: Bytespider Disallow: / Allow: /sp/ Allow: /strategist User-agent: CCBot Disallow: / Allow: /sp/ Allow: /strategist User-agent: ChatGPT-User Disallow: / Allow: /sp/ Allow: /strategist User-agent: Claude-SearchBot Disallow: / Allow: /sp/ Allow: /strategist User-agent: Claude-User Disallow: / Allow: /sp/ Allow: /strategist User-agent: ClaudeBot Disallow: / Allow: /sp/ Allow: /strategist User-agent: Google-Extended Disallow: / Allow: /sp/ Allow: /strategist User-agent: meta-externalagent Disallow: / Allow: /sp/ Allow: /strategist User-agent: PerplexityBot Disallow: / Allow: /sp/ Allow: /strategist
Excerpt: only groups for all user-agents (*) or named AI crawlers, up to 40 rules per group.
Sites with a similar AI policy
Does nymag.com block GPTBot?
No. As of Oct 2, 2026, nymag.com's robots.txt doesn't block GPTBot.
Can ChatGPT search show results from nymag.com?
Its robots.txt blocks a ChatGPT search crawler, so ChatGPT search is unlikely to read or cite those pages.
Does nymag.com have an llms.txt file?
We didn't find a valid llms.txt at nymag.com/llms.txt when we checked.
Data: nymag.com's public robots.txt and llms.txt, fetched by AskableHQ. Popularity rank from the Tranco list (ID Y83YG). Methodology.