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Does bild.de block AI crawlers?

Yes, 8 of 17. As of October 19, 2026, bild.de's robots.txt blocks PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User, Applebot-Extended, CCBot, Bytespider, Amazonbot, cohere-ai and Diffbot from the whole site. It keeps the other 9 out of parts of the site. 8 of them are named in a group of their own; the others follow its rules for every crawler.

It has no llms.txt (HTTP 404). Its homepage is 214,081 tokens of raw HTML, 50 as Markdown (0.0%) and 50 pruned for the question “What is bild.de?”.

Each crawler, by its robots.txt rules

From https://www.bild.de/robots.txt (3,053 bytes, 3 user-agent groups), parsed per RFC 9309. Blocked: no path allowed. Partly blocked: some paths disallowed. The rule counts are those of the groups that apply.

CrawlerOperatorVerdictRules that applyDisallow rulesAllow rules
GPTBotOpenAIPartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)140
ChatGPT-UserOpenAIPartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)140
OAI-SearchBotOpenAIPartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)140
ClaudeBotAnthropicPartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)140
Claude-UserAnthropicPartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)140
Claude-SearchBotAnthropicPartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)140
anthropic-aiAnthropicPartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)140
PerplexityBotPerplexityBlockedIts own group10
Perplexity-UserPerplexityBlockedIts own group10
Google-ExtendedGooglePartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)140
Applebot-ExtendedAppleBlockedIts own group10
CCBotCommon CrawlBlockedIts own group10
BytespiderByteDanceBlockedIts own group10
AmazonbotAmazonBlockedIts own group10
meta-externalagentMetaPartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)140
cohere-aiCohereBlockedIts own group10
DiffbotDiffbotBlockedIts own group10
ContextFetchBot (us)ContextFetchPartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)140
Checked October 19, 2026 by ContextFetchBot. Google-Extended and Applebot-Extended are robots.txt tokens that control use of content for AI, not separate crawlers.

Its homepage in tokens

https://www.bild.de/, fetched once and converted locally with the ContextFetch engine. Tokens are characters divided by four, rounded up, the count the API reports in its X-Raw-Tokens and X-Output-Tokens headers.

Tokens of the bild.de homepage as raw HTML, Markdown and pruned context, October 19, 2026
GroupRaw HTMLMarkdownPruned
Tokens214,0815050

Read bild.de through ContextFetch

GET /r/ returns a page as Markdown, with X-Raw-Tokens and X-Output-Tokens headers. Add ?q= and a question to get only the passages that answer it. No key needed for 25 requests a day; a free key has 2,500 credits. bild.de's robots.txt partly blocks ContextFetchBot: our index and crawls skip what it disallows, and a page you ask for is fetched once on your behalf (see the bot page).

curl -si "https://api.contextfetch.dev/r/https://bild.de/"

How ContextFetchBot behaves · All sites and the method · Raw data

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