Does digitaltrends.com block AI crawlers?
As of 2026-11-03, digitaltrends.com does not block any of the 18 AI crawlers we check. ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini can all read its public pages.
AI crawler status of digitaltrends.com
Based on the live robots.txt of digitaltrends.com, checked on 2026-11-03. “Some paths restricted” means the bot may crawl the site but certain sections are excluded.
| User agent | Company | Purpose | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
GPTBot | OpenAI | Model training | Allowed |
OAI-SearchBot | OpenAI | ChatGPT search index | Allowed (some paths restricted) |
ChatGPT-User | OpenAI | Live browsing for ChatGPT users | Allowed |
ClaudeBot | Anthropic | Model training | Allowed |
Claude-SearchBot | Anthropic | Claude search index | Allowed |
Claude-User | Anthropic | Live browsing for Claude users | Allowed |
PerplexityBot | Perplexity | Perplexity search index | Allowed (some paths restricted) |
Perplexity-User | Perplexity | Live browsing for Perplexity users | Allowed (some paths restricted) |
Google-Extended | Gemini training & grounding | Allowed | |
Googlebot | Search and AI Overviews | Allowed (some paths restricted) | |
Bingbot | Microsoft | Bing search and Microsoft Copilot | Allowed (some paths restricted) |
Applebot-Extended | Apple | Apple Intelligence training | Allowed |
Meta-ExternalAgent | Meta | Meta AI training | Allowed (some paths restricted) |
Amazonbot | Amazon | Alexa and Amazon AI | Allowed (some paths restricted) |
DuckAssistBot | DuckDuckGo | DuckAssist answers | Allowed |
MistralAI-User | Mistral | Live browsing for Le Chat users | Allowed |
CCBot | Common Crawl | Open dataset used by many AI models | Allowed |
Bytespider | ByteDance | Model training | Allowed |
What this means
digitaltrends.com is fully open to AI crawlers. Its content can be used for training and can be read, cited and linked by AI assistants in real time.
Among the 381 news & media sites in our AI crawler report, 59% block GPTBot completely. digitaltrends.com is not one of them.
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FAQ
Does digitaltrends.com block ChatGPT?
No. As of 2026-11-03, OAI-SearchBot is allowed with some restricted paths and ChatGPT-User is allowed in the robots.txt of digitaltrends.com. GPTBot (OpenAI's training crawler) is allowed.
Can Perplexity access digitaltrends.com?
PerplexityBot is allowed with some restricted paths and Perplexity-User is allowed with some restricted paths on digitaltrends.com according to its robots.txt checked on 2026-11-03.
Does digitaltrends.com have an llms.txt file?
No, we did not find an llms.txt file on digitaltrends.com when we checked on 2026-11-03.
How is this data collected?
We fetch the public robots.txt file of each site and evaluate the rules for 18 AI user agents for the site root. robots.txt is a request, not a technical barrier, and sites may also block bots at the firewall level, which this check does not see.
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