Does tripadvisor.com block AI crawlers?

Can AI assistants cite tripadvisor.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

tripadvisor.com 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

How tripadvisor.com compares

• 19% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block GPTBot; tripadvisor.com is one of them.
• 18% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block ClaudeBot; tripadvisor.com is one of them.
• 14% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block PerplexityBot; tripadvisor.com does not.
• Among 202 sites of similar popularity, 28% block at least one AI crawler.

The robots.txt rules that apply to AI crawlers

User-agent: Amazonbot
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
User-agent: Bytespider
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: Cohere-ai
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot
User-agent: Img2dataset
User-agent: PanguBot
User-agent: PetalBot
User-agent: SentiBot
User-agent: YouBot
User-agent: magpie-crawler
User-agent: meta-externalagent
Disallow: /

User-agent: *
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: ChatGPT-User/2.0
User-agent: Gemini-Deep-Research
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-agent: Google-Extended
User-agent: applebot
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: bingbot
User-agent: Baiduspider
Disallow: /5349
Disallow: /AccommodationTips
Disallow: /AccountMerge
Disallow: /Achievements
Disallow: /ActionRecord
Disallow: /AddForumUser
Disallow: /AddListing
Disallow: /AdRequestEventLogApi
Disallow: /AdsManager
Disallow: /adsoverview
Disallow: /AffiliateWidgets
Disallow: /AirlineRegistration
Disallow: /AirlineTips
Disallow: /AITripBuilder
Disallow: /AllReviews
Disallow: /analytics
Disallow: /AnalyticsSuite
Disallow: /AnswersAjax
Disallow: /api
Disallow: /APIAccessSupport
Disallow: /AppDetail
Disallow: /AppleMapsAction
Disallow: /apps
Disallow: /AppSwipeRecommendations
Disallow: /AppTravelModeExplore
Disallow: /AppUploadAPhoto
Disallow: /AppUserReview
Disallow: /ArticlesV2
Disallow: /Attraction_Products
Disallow: /AttractionAmendTravelDate
Disallow: /AttractionBookingApi
Disallow: /AttractionBookingDetails
Disallow: /AttractionCancelBooking
Disallow: /AttractionCommerce
Disallow: /AttractionPartnerRedirect
Disallow: /AttractionProductDetail
Disallow: /AttractionProductHighlight
Disallow: /AuthCheck
Disallow: /AuthorTool
Disallow: /avis

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /ForumHome
Disallow: /ListForums
Disallow: /ShowForum
Disallow: /ShowTopic

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: ChatGPT-User/2.0
User-agent: Gemini-Deep-Research
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Disallow: /*-g1875*
Disallow: /*-g188*

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /
Allow: /Restaurants-g55711-Dallas_Texas.html

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

Sites with a similar AI policy

• tandfonline.com · 1 blocked
• sagepub.com · 3 blocked
• slideshare.net · 3 blocked
• behance.net · 7 blocked
• scribd.com · 3 blocked
• cbsnews.com · 1 blocked
• goodreads.com · 2 blocked
• bandcamp.com · 6 blocked

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