Does weather.com block AI crawlers?
Blocks AI training, allows AI answers
weather.com blocks at least one AI training crawler but still lets AI answer engines read its pages.
Checked from weather.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
- 3
- llms.txt
- Published
- Popularity
- Tranco top 500 (#323)
Can AI assistants cite weather.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
weather.com opts out of AI training by Common Crawl, ByteDance. 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
| Crawler | Used for | Status on weather.com |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBotOpenAI | AI training | Some paths restricted |
| OAI-SearchBotOpenAI | AI answers | Some paths restricted |
| ChatGPT-UserOpenAI | AI answers | Allowed |
| ClaudeBotAnthropic | AI training | Some paths restricted |
| Claude-SearchBotAnthropic | AI answers | Some paths restricted |
| Claude-UserAnthropic | AI answers | Some paths restricted |
| PerplexityBotPerplexity | AI answers | Some paths restricted |
| Google-ExtendedGoogle | AI training | Some paths restricted |
| Applebot-ExtendedApple | AI training | Some paths restricted |
| CCBotCommon Crawl | AI training | Blocked |
| BytespiderByteDance | AI training | Blocked |
| Meta-ExternalAgentMeta | AI training | Some paths restricted |
How weather.com compares
- 19% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block GPTBot; weather.com does not.
- 18% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block ClaudeBot; weather.com does not.
- 14% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block PerplexityBot; weather.com does not.
- Among 193 sites of similar popularity, 31% block at least one AI crawler.
The robots.txt rules that apply to AI crawlers
User-agent: ChatGPT-User Allow: / User-agent: * Disallow: /includes/ Disallow: /life/ Disallow: /misc/ Disallow: /modules/ Disallow: /profiles/ Disallow: /scripts/ Disallow: /themes/ Disallow: /api/payload Allow: /api/payload/v1/sitemaps Disallow: /taxonomy/ Disallow: /appspromo Disallow: /CHANGELOG.txt Disallow: /cron.php Disallow: /INSTALL.mysql.txt Disallow: /INSTALL.pgsql.txt Disallow: /INSTALL.sqlite.txt Disallow: /install.php Disallow: /INSTALL.txt Disallow: /LICENSE.txt Disallow: /MAINTAINERS.txt Disallow: /update.php Disallow: /UPGRADE.txt Disallow: /xmlrpc.php Disallow: /migration/ Disallow: /admin/ Disallow: /comment/reply/ Disallow: /filter/tips/ Disallow: /node/add/ Disallow: /search/ Disallow: /user/register/ Disallow: /user/password/ Disallow: /user/login/ Disallow: /user/logout/ Disallow: /*?apiKey= Disallow: /*&apiKey= Disallow: /?q=admin/ Disallow: /?q=comment/reply/ Disallow: /?q=filter/tips/ Disallow: /?q=node/add/ Disallow: /?q=search/ User-agent: Bytespider Disallow: / User-agent: CCBot Disallow: /
Excerpt: only groups for all user-agents (*) or named AI crawlers, up to 40 rules per group.
Sites with a similar AI policy
- alibaba.com · 2 blocked
- name.com · 1 blocked
- trustpilot.com · 2 blocked
- ea.com · 2 blocked
- forter.com · 3 blocked
- linktr.ee · 2 blocked
- who.int · 1 blocked
- calendly.com · 1 blocked
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Does weather.com block GPTBot?
No. As of Oct 2, 2026, weather.com's robots.txt doesn't block GPTBot, though some paths are restricted for all crawlers.
Can ChatGPT search show results from weather.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 weather.com have an llms.txt file?
Yes — weather.com/llms.txt was found when we checked.
Data: weather.com's public robots.txt and llms.txt, fetched by AskableHQ. Popularity rank from the Tranco list (ID Y83YG). Methodology.