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AI Crawlers and the New robots.txt Reality: GPTBot, Google-Extended, and ClaudeBot

AI Crawlers and the New robots.txt Reality: GPTBot, Google-Extended, and ClaudeBot

GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, and a growing list of AI training crawlers now require active robots.txt management. Here's every major AI crawler and its user agent, how to block them selectively, the distinction between blocking Google-Extended vs Googlebot, and what "respect robots.txt" actually means in practice.

Jun 10, 2026