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Does tagesspiegel.de block AI crawlers?

Blocks AI training, allows AI answers

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

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

AI crawlers blocked
6 of 12
AI bots named in robots.txt
7
llms.txt
Not found
Popularity
Tranco top 5,000 (#3,353)

Can AI assistants cite tagesspiegel.de?

  • 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

tagesspiegel.de opts out of AI training by OpenAI, Anthropic, 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

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

How tagesspiegel.de compares

  • 19% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block GPTBot; tagesspiegel.de is one of them.
  • 18% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block ClaudeBot; tagesspiegel.de is one of them.
  • 14% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block PerplexityBot; tagesspiegel.de does not.
  • Among 150 sites of similar popularity, 25% block at least one AI crawler.

The robots.txt rules that apply to AI crawlers

User-agent: *
Disallow: /community-comments
Disallow: /wpsafelink.js

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: meta-externalagent
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /
Disallow: /*/dpa-*.html

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /
Disallow: /dpa-*.html

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

Sites with a similar AI policy

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Does tagesspiegel.de block GPTBot?

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

Can ChatGPT search show results from tagesspiegel.de?

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 tagesspiegel.de have an llms.txt file?

We didn't find a valid llms.txt at tagesspiegel.de/llms.txt when we checked.

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