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Does dropbox.com block AI crawlers?

Partly. As of October 19, 2026, dropbox.com's robots.txt blocks none of the 17 AI crawlers we check from the whole site, but keeps all 17 out of parts of it. None of them is named in the file: they all follow its rules for every crawler (User-agent: *).

It serves an llms.txt (209,330 bytes, starting with a Markdown title). Its homepage is 158,244 tokens of raw HTML, 221 as Markdown (0.1%) and 221 pruned for the question “What is dropbox.com?”.

Each crawler, by its robots.txt rules

From https://www.dropbox.com/robots.txt (801 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 (*)234
ChatGPT-UserOpenAIPartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)234
OAI-SearchBotOpenAIPartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)234
ClaudeBotAnthropicPartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)234
Claude-UserAnthropicPartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)234
Claude-SearchBotAnthropicPartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)234
anthropic-aiAnthropicPartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)234
PerplexityBotPerplexityPartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)234
Perplexity-UserPerplexityPartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)234
Google-ExtendedGooglePartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)234
Applebot-ExtendedApplePartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)234
CCBotCommon CrawlPartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)234
BytespiderByteDancePartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)234
AmazonbotAmazonPartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)234
meta-externalagentMetaPartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)234
cohere-aiCoherePartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)234
DiffbotDiffbotPartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)234
ContextFetchBot (us)ContextFetchPartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)234
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.dropbox.com/, 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 dropbox.com homepage as raw HTML, Markdown and pruned context, October 19, 2026
GroupRaw HTMLMarkdownPruned
Tokens158,244221221

Read dropbox.com 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. dropbox.com'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://dropbox.com/"

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

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Your free key comes with 2,500 credits, no signup. One credit reads one page.