Does themeforest.net block AI crawlers?

Can AI assistants cite themeforest.net?

• 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

themeforest.net opts out of AI training by 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

How themeforest.net compares

• 19% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block GPTBot; themeforest.net does not.
• 18% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block ClaudeBot; themeforest.net does not.
• 14% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block PerplexityBot; themeforest.net does not.
• Among 206 sites of similar popularity, 34% block at least one AI crawler.

The robots.txt rules that apply to AI crawlers

User-agent: *
Disallow: *?platform*
Disallow: */full_screen_preview/
Disallow: *?sales*
Disallow: */cart/*
Disallow: */sign_in?*
Disallow: */item_support/
Disallow: /affiliate/
Disallow: /referral/
Disallow: /shopfront-api/
Disallow: /shopfront_api/
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: *?sort=*
Disallow: *,*,*
Disallow: *?attribute_key
Disallow: *\+*\+*
Disallow: /cart$
Disallow: /sign_in
Disallow: /consociate/
Disallow: *price_min=*
Disallow: *price_max=*
Disallow: */screenshots/
Disallow: /bookmarks/widget
Disallow: /favorites?
Disallow: *item_id
Disallow: /my/*
Disallow: *discount_type=*
Disallow: /storefront/
Disallow: /cdn-cgi/
Disallow: /checkout/

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

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

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