Does reuters.com block AI crawlers?

Can AI assistants cite reuters.com?

• ChatGPT search: its search crawlers may read the site
• Claude: its search crawler is blocked
• Perplexity: its search crawler is blocked

reuters.com opts out of AI training by OpenAI, 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

How reuters.com compares

• 19% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block GPTBot; reuters.com is one of them.
• 18% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block ClaudeBot; reuters.com is one of them.
• 14% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block PerplexityBot; reuters.com is one of them.
• Among 192 sites of similar popularity, 32% block at least one AI crawler.

The robots.txt rules that apply to AI crawlers

User-agent: AASA-Bot
User-agent: ADmantX
User-agent: AdmiralBot
User-agent: AdsBot-Google
User-agent: AdsBot-Google-Mobile
User-agent: AmazonAdBot
User-agent: Amzn-User
User-agent: Applebot
User-agent: AppleNewsBot
User-agent: Bingbot
User-agent: BingPreview
User-agent: BrightEdge
User-agent: BrightEdgeOnCrawl
User-agent: CensysInspect
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: Cision
User-agent: Clickagy
User-agent: Concert
User-agent: ContextualBot
User-agent: CriteoBot
User-agent: DatadogSynthetics
User-agent: datadome-pageprotect-scanner
User-agent: Discordbot
User-agent: doubleverify
User-agent: ElevenlabsBot
User-agent: Embedly
User-agent: facebookexternalhit
User-agent: Googlebot
User-agent: Googlebot Smartphone
User-agent: Googlebot-News
User-agent: Google-Display-Ads-Bot
User-agent: Google-InspectionTool
User-agent: GoogleOther
User-agent: Google-Read-Aloud
User-agent: Google-Safety
User-agent: Google-Site-Verification
User-agent: GTmetrix
User-agent: GumGumBot
User-agent: ias_crawler
User-agent: Iframely
User-agent: leiki
User-agent: LinkedInBot
User-agent: LinkTiger
User-agent: Mantisbot
User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
User-agent: meta-externalads
User-agent: meta-webindexer
User-agent: MicrosoftPreview
User-agent: MJ12bot
User-agent: Moreover
User-agent: msnbot
User-agent: NFBNewslineRobot
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-agent: Oncrawl
User-agent: Opebot-v
User-agent: Opoint
User-agent: Optimizer
User-agent: outbrain
User-agent: Pinterestbot
User-agent: Prerender
User-agent: Proofpoint
User-agent: proximic
User-agent: PubMatic Crawler Bot
User-agent: Quantcastbot
User-agent: Qwantbot
User-agent: Reuters SEO Screaming Frog Spider 007
User-agent: Reuters-NAUWI
User-agent: Scom-Crawler-For-Reuters
User-agent: SinceraSyntheticUser
User-agent: Slurp
User-agent: SmartologyBot
User-agent: snews
User-agent: SocialFlow
User-agent: StatusCake
User-agent: Storebot-Google
User-agent: Stripebot
User-agent: TTD-Content
User-agent: Twitterbot
User-agent: URLDefense
User-agent: Verity
User-agent: vuln_scan_by_trustedsite_com_halo_security
User-agent: WISEbot
User-agent: Xenu Link Sleuth
User-agent: Yahoo Link Preview
User-agent: Yahoo! JAPAN
User-agent: YahooMailProxy
Disallow: /finance/stocks/option
Disallow: /finance/stocks/financialHighlights
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /site-search/
Disallow: /beta
Disallow: /designtech
Disallow: /featured-optimize
Disallow: /energy-test
Disallow: /article/beta
Disallow: /sponsored/previewcampaign
Disallow: /sponsored/previewarticle
Disallow: /test/
Disallow: /news/archive/commentary
Disallow: /brandfeatures/venture-capital
Disallow: /assets/siteindex
Disallow: /article/api/
Disallow: /practical-law-the-journal/search/
Disallow: /pf/api/
Disallow: /fr/
Disallow: /it/
Disallow: /es/
Disallow: /pt/
Disallow: /de/
Disallow: /latam/
Disallow: /account/subscribe/payment
Disallow: /*/site-search/

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: *
Allow: /plus/
Disallow: /

Excerpt: only groups for all user-agents (*) or named AI crawlers, up to 40 rules per group.

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