# Does yahoo.com allow GPTBot? robots.txt as of 2026-09-13

## In short

On 2026-09-13 the robots.txt of yahoo.com resolved 19 AI crawler tokens: 11 allowed for / and 8 disallowed for /.

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Domain | yahoo.com |
| AI crawler tokens resolved | 19 |
| Allowed for / | 11 |
| Disallowed for / | 8 |
| robots.txt | robots.txt present, 1624 bytes |
| Checks that ran | robots |
| robots.txt read (tier A) | 2026-09-13 |
| Full check (tier B) | 2026-09-06 |
| Last verified | 2026-09-13 |

## Every AI crawler token in the registry

| Crawler | Vendor | Observation | Evidence | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | OpenAI | disallowed for / | robots.txt line 67 in the User-agent: GPTBot group: "Disallow: /" (longest match wins) | 2026-09-13 |
| ClaudeBot | Anthropic | disallowed for / | robots.txt line 67 in the User-agent: ClaudeBot group: "Disallow: /" (longest match wins) | 2026-09-13 |
| PerplexityBot | Perplexity | disallowed for / | robots.txt line 67 in the User-agent: PerplexityBot group: "Disallow: /" (longest match wins) | 2026-09-13 |
| OAI-SearchBot | OpenAI | allowed for / | robots.txt has a User-agent: OAI-SearchBot group with no rule matching / , so / is allowed | 2026-09-13 |
| CCBot | Common Crawl Foundation | disallowed for / | robots.txt line 67 in the User-agent: CCBot group: "Disallow: /" (longest match wins) | 2026-09-13 |
| Bytespider | ByteDance | disallowed for / | robots.txt line 67 in the User-agent: Bytespider group: "Disallow: /" (longest match wins) | 2026-09-13 |
| Googlebot | Google | allowed for / | robots.txt has a User-agent: * group with no rule matching / , so / is allowed | 2026-09-13 |
| ChatGPT-User | OpenAI | disallowed for / | robots.txt line 67 in the User-agent: ChatGPT-User group: "Disallow: /" (longest match wins) | 2026-09-13 |
| Claude-User | Anthropic | allowed for / | robots.txt has a User-agent: * group with no rule matching / , so / is allowed | 2026-09-13 |
| Claude-SearchBot | Anthropic | allowed for / | robots.txt has a User-agent: Claude-SearchBot group with no rule matching / , so / is allowed | 2026-09-13 |
| Perplexity-User | Perplexity | allowed for / | robots.txt has a User-agent: * group with no rule matching / , so / is allowed | 2026-09-13 |
| anthropic-ai | Anthropic | disallowed for / | robots.txt line 67 in the User-agent: anthropic-ai group: "Disallow: /" (longest match wins) | 2026-09-13 |
| Bingbot | Microsoft | allowed for / | robots.txt has a User-agent: * group with no rule matching / , so / is allowed | 2026-09-13 |
| Applebot | Apple | allowed for / | robots.txt has a User-agent: * group with no rule matching / , so / is allowed | 2026-09-13 |
| Amazonbot | Amazon | allowed for / | robots.txt has a User-agent: * group with no rule matching / , so / is allowed | 2026-09-13 |
| meta-externalagent | Meta | allowed for / | robots.txt has a User-agent: * group with no rule matching / , so / is allowed | 2026-09-13 |
| DuckAssistBot | DuckDuckGo | allowed for / | robots.txt has a User-agent: * group with no rule matching / , so / is allowed | 2026-09-13 |
| Applebot-Extended | Apple | allowed for / | robots.txt has a User-agent: * group with no rule matching / , so / is allowed | 2026-09-13 |
| Google-Extended | Google | disallowed for / | robots.txt line 67 in the User-agent: Google-Extended group: "Disallow: /" (longest match wins) | 2026-09-13 |

## The robots.txt reading itself

| Observation | Value | Evidence | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|
| agents-summary | AI crawler rules: 11 allowed, 8 disallowed | 19 crawler tokens resolved against https://yahoo.com/robots.txt (HTTP 200, 1624 bytes) at 2026-09-13T23:17:00Z | 2026-09-13 |
| file | robots.txt present, 1624 bytes | GET https://yahoo.com/robots.txt at 2026-09-13T23:17:00Z returned HTTP 200, 1624 bytes, content type text/plain, 3 user agent group(s) | 2026-09-13 |
| sitemap-declared | 3 sitemap(s) declared in robots.txt | line 73: "Sitemap: https://www.yahoo.com/news/weather/sitemap.xml"; line 74: "Sitemap: https://www.yahoo.com/news-sitemap-index.xml"; line 75: "Sitemap: https://www.yahoo.com/sitemap-index.xml" | 2026-09-13 |

Robots.txt history: https://bikoosh.com/aeo/site/yahoo.com/history

Limitation: this test appends a labelled marker to our own honest User Agent, it never impersonates another agent. Rules keyed to an exact User Agent string, or to a vendor's IP ranges, are invisible to this method and are neither confirmed nor ruled out.

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