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Does skysports.com block AI crawlers?

Blocks AI training, allows AI answers

skysports.com blocks at least one AI training crawler but still lets AI answer engines read its pages.

Checked from skysports.com/robots.txt. Robots rules change; the live file is the source of truth.

AI crawlers blocked
2 of 12
AI bots named in robots.txt
2
llms.txt
Not found
Popularity
Tranco top 2,000 (#1,107)

Can AI assistants cite skysports.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

skysports.com opts out of AI training by OpenAI, Common Crawl. 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

CrawlerUsed forStatus on skysports.com
GPTBotOpenAIAI trainingBlocked
OAI-SearchBotOpenAIAI answersSome paths restricted
ChatGPT-UserOpenAIAI answersSome paths restricted
ClaudeBotAnthropicAI trainingSome paths restricted
Claude-SearchBotAnthropicAI answersSome paths restricted
Claude-UserAnthropicAI answersSome paths restricted
PerplexityBotPerplexityAI answersSome paths restricted
Google-ExtendedGoogleAI trainingSome paths restricted
Applebot-ExtendedAppleAI trainingSome paths restricted
CCBotCommon CrawlAI trainingBlocked
BytespiderByteDanceAI trainingSome paths restricted
Meta-ExternalAgentMetaAI trainingSome paths restricted

How skysports.com compares

  • 19% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block GPTBot; skysports.com is one of them.
  • 18% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block ClaudeBot; skysports.com does not.
  • 14% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block PerplexityBot; skysports.com does not.
  • Among 202 sites of similar popularity, 32% block at least one AI crawler.

The robots.txt rules that apply to AI crawlers

User-agent: *
Disallow: /yourview/comments_json/
Disallow: /live-score-centre
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /globalnav/
Disallow: /hub/
Disallow: /ical-feeds/
Disallow: /infobar/
Disallow: /mobilechoice/
Disallow: /pods/
Disallow: /private/
Disallow: /seo/
Disallow: /sso/
Disallow: /vgnHeaders/
Disallow: /watch/ad-test/
Disallow: /watch/poll/
Disallow: /advent-calendar/
Disallow: /20346936/
Disallow: /akamai/
Disallow: /akamai-assets/
Disallow: /calendars/ajax/
Disallow: /generic-news-listing/ajax/
Disallow: /football/opinion/ajax/
Disallow: /formula1/opinion/ajax/
Disallow: /formulat1/live/json/
Disallow: /tennis/generic-news-listing/ajax/
Disallow: /f1/teams/caterham/twitter/ajax/
Disallow: /f1/teams/ferrari/twitter/ajax/
Disallow: /f1/teams/forceindia/twitter/ajax/
Disallow: /f1/teams/lotus/twitter/ajax/
Disallow: /f1/teams/marussia/twitter/ajax/
Disallow: /f1/teams/mclaren/twitter/ajax/
Disallow: /f1/teams/mercedes/twitter/ajax/
Disallow: /f1/teams/redbull/twitter/ajax/
Disallow: /f1/teams/sauber/twitter/ajax/
Disallow: /f1/teams/tororosso/twitter/ajax/
Disallow: /f1/teams/alphataui/twitter/ajax/
Disallow: /f1/teams/williams/twitter/ajax/
Disallow: /f1/teams/caterham/ajax/
Disallow: /f1/teams/ferrari/ajax/
Disallow: /f1/teams/forceindia/ajax/

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

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

Sites with a similar AI policy

All sites that are “blocks ai training, allows ai answers” →

Does skysports.com block GPTBot?

Yes. As of Oct 2, 2026, skysports.com's robots.txt disallows GPTBot, OpenAI's training crawler.

Can ChatGPT search show results from skysports.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 skysports.com have an llms.txt file?

We didn't find a valid llms.txt at skysports.com/llms.txt when we checked.

Data: skysports.com's public robots.txt and llms.txt, fetched by AskableHQ. Popularity rank from the Tranco list (ID Y83YG). Methodology.