Does yelp.com block AI crawlers?
Blocks AI training and AI answers
yelp.com blocks both AI training crawlers and AI answer crawlers in its robots.txt.
Checked from yelp.com/robots.txt. Robots rules change; the live file is the source of truth.
- AI crawlers blocked
- 12 of 12
- AI bots named in robots.txt
- 11
- llms.txt
- Not found
- Popularity
- Tranco top 1,000 (#676)
Can AI assistants cite yelp.com?
- ChatGPT search: its search crawler is blocked
- Claude: its search crawler is blocked
- Perplexity: its search crawler is blocked
yelp.com opts out of AI training by OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, 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
| Crawler | Used for | Status on yelp.com |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBotOpenAI | AI training | Blocked |
| OAI-SearchBotOpenAI | AI answers | Blocked |
| ChatGPT-UserOpenAI | AI answers | Blocked |
| ClaudeBotAnthropic | AI training | Blocked |
| Claude-SearchBotAnthropic | AI answers | Blocked |
| Claude-UserAnthropic | AI answers | Blocked |
| PerplexityBotPerplexity | AI answers | Blocked |
| Google-ExtendedGoogle | AI training | Blocked |
| Applebot-ExtendedApple | AI training | Blocked |
| CCBotCommon Crawl | AI training | Blocked |
| BytespiderByteDance | AI training | Blocked |
| Meta-ExternalAgentMeta | AI training | Blocked |
How yelp.com compares
- 19% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block GPTBot; yelp.com is one of them.
- 18% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block ClaudeBot; yelp.com is one of them.
- 14% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block PerplexityBot; yelp.com is one of them.
- Among 196 sites of similar popularity, 27% block at least one AI crawler.
The robots.txt rules that apply to AI crawlers
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot Allow: /spk/ Allow: /article$ Allow: /article/ Disallow: / User-agent: ChatGPT-User User-agent: Claude-User User-agent: PerplexityUser User-agent: Perplexity-User User-agent: Claude-SearchBot User-agent: PerplexityBot Allow: /article$ Allow: /article/ Disallow: / User-agent: GPTBot User-agent: ClaudeBot User-agent: CCBot User-agent: Google-Extended User-agent: anthropic-ai User-agent: Claude-Web User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher User-agent: RuxitSynthetic Disallow: / User-agent: * Disallow: /
Excerpt: only groups for all user-agents (*) or named AI crawlers, up to 40 rules per group.
Sites with a similar AI policy
Does yelp.com block GPTBot?
Yes. As of Oct 2, 2026, yelp.com's robots.txt disallows GPTBot, OpenAI's training crawler.
Can ChatGPT search show results from yelp.com?
Its robots.txt blocks a ChatGPT search crawler, so ChatGPT search is unlikely to read or cite those pages.
Does yelp.com have an llms.txt file?
We didn't find a valid llms.txt at yelp.com/llms.txt when we checked.
Data: yelp.com's public robots.txt and llms.txt, fetched by AskableHQ. Popularity rank from the Tranco list (ID Y83YG). Methodology.