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AI crawler access (latest snapshot, 13h ago)

⛔blocked restricted ✅allowed faded = inherited from the * wildcard group

✅GPTBot

✅ChatGPT-User

✅OAI-SearchBot

✅ClaudeBot

✅Claude-User

✅Claude-SearchBot

✅anthropic-ai

✅Claude-Web

✅CCBot

✅Google-Extended

✅Applebot-Extended

✅PerplexityBot

✅Perplexity-User

✅Bytespider

✅Amazonbot

✅FacebookBot

✅meta-externalagent

✅meta-externalfetcher

✅cohere-ai

✅AI2Bot

✅Diffbot

✅omgili

✅YouBot

✅DuckAssistBot

✅MistralAI-User

✅PanguBot

✅Timpibot

Current robots.txt 1304 bytes · sha256 730ccddf0996 · raw

User-agent: *

# Files
Disallow: /CHANGELOG.txt
Disallow: /cron.php
Disallow: /_fs-ch-
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: /img/placeholder.gif
# Paths (clean URLs)
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: /internal-api/
# Paths (no clean URLs)
Disallow: /?q=admin/
Disallow: /?q=comment/reply/
Disallow: /?q=filter/tips/
Disallow: /?q=node/add/
Disallow: /?q=search/
Disallow: /?q=user/password/
Disallow: /?q=user/register/
Disallow: /?q=user/login/
Disallow: /?q=user/logout/
Disallow: /pugpig/
Disallow: /videorequest
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /api/html/
Disallow: /api/user/
Disallow: /71347885/
Disallow: /cb

# Ignore liveblog pagination and swipe tracking
Disallow: *itm_channel=native
Disallow: *?page=

# Ignore refresh URLs
Disallow: /*ILC-refresh

User-agent: Nutch
Disallow: /

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Sitemap: https://www.independent.co.uk/sitemap.xml

Change history

initial 13h ago snapshot
- First snapshot of robots.txt archived

Editorial profile Content bias, reliability & geopolitical trust

Content biasLean Left CredibilityHigh reliability

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