Does rainews.it block AI crawlers?
As of 2026-11-03, the robots.txt of rainews.it blocks 8 of 18 AI crawlers, including GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot.
AI crawler status of rainews.it
Based on the live robots.txt of rainews.it, 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 | Blocked |
OAI-SearchBot | OpenAI | ChatGPT search index | Allowed (some paths restricted) |
ChatGPT-User | OpenAI | Live browsing for ChatGPT users | Blocked |
ClaudeBot | Anthropic | Model training | Blocked |
Claude-SearchBot | Anthropic | Claude search index | Allowed (some paths restricted) |
Claude-User | Anthropic | Live browsing for Claude users | Allowed (some paths restricted) |
PerplexityBot | Perplexity | Perplexity search index | Blocked |
Perplexity-User | Perplexity | Live browsing for Perplexity users | Allowed (some paths restricted) |
Google-Extended | Gemini training & grounding | Blocked | |
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 (some paths restricted) |
Meta-ExternalAgent | Meta | Meta AI training | Allowed (some paths restricted) |
Amazonbot | Amazon | Alexa and Amazon AI | Blocked |
DuckAssistBot | DuckDuckGo | DuckAssist answers | Allowed (some paths restricted) |
MistralAI-User | Mistral | Live browsing for Le Chat users | Allowed (some paths restricted) |
CCBot | Common Crawl | Open dataset used by many AI models | Blocked |
Bytespider | ByteDance | Model training | Blocked |
What this means
rainews.it follows a pattern many publishers now use: it keeps AI training crawlers like GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended out, but still lets AI search and live-browsing agents in. That way it can still be cited and linked in ChatGPT or Perplexity answers.
Among the 381 news & media sites in our AI crawler report, 59% block GPTBot completely. rainews.it is one of them.
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FAQ
Does rainews.it block ChatGPT?
Partly. As of 2026-11-03, OAI-SearchBot is allowed with some restricted paths and ChatGPT-User is blocked in the robots.txt of rainews.it. GPTBot (OpenAI's training crawler) is blocked.
Can Perplexity access rainews.it?
PerplexityBot is blocked and Perplexity-User is allowed with some restricted paths on rainews.it according to its robots.txt checked on 2026-11-03.
Does rainews.it have an llms.txt file?
No, we did not find an llms.txt file on rainews.it 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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