Glossary

AI crawler

The fetcher an AI company uses to read the web: GPTBot and OAI-SearchBot (OpenAI), PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot (Anthropic), Google-Extended (Google's AI training opt-out control), CCBot (Common Crawl). Named in robots.txt to allow or block.

Updated September 2026 · by Monish

Definition

The fetcher an AI company uses to read the web: GPTBot and OAI-SearchBot (OpenAI), PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot (Anthropic), Google-Extended (Google's AI training opt-out control), CCBot (Common Crawl). Named in robots.txt to allow or block.

In the report

The heaviest of the thirteen checks: a site-wide Disallow for GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, ClaudeBot or CCBot fails it, and it carries six times the weight of a canonical tag, because a block undoes every other item.

How to move it

Allow the search crawlers (OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot) and the fetchers (ChatGPT-User, Perplexity-User). Decide about the training ones (GPTBot, CCBot) separately. The crawler checker shows what your robots.txt says today.

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Your website, region and work email. The score appears in about three minutes, and the report is a link you keep.

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