Disallow AI scraping
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Although there’s never a guarantee, you can attempt to disallow “AI” from scraping the posts in your blog, in the same spirit of “DNT — Do Not Track” in modern web browsers.
If you have control over your
robots.txt1,
add something like the following to it:
User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Disallow: /
User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /
User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /
User-agent: Claude-Web
Disallow: /
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: cohere-ai
Disallow: /
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: FacebookBot
Disallow: /
# Default rule
User-agent: *
Disallow:The list above is non-exhaustive and will not be kept up-to-date, it’s just meant as a reference and/or starting point.
You could always use Gen AI itself to help you populate it, credits go to https://grubz.blog/ai-scrapers-post/.
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You really should. ↩︎
Backlinks
- Blocking Claude (Mar 02, 2026)