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Does flickr.com block AI crawlers?

Yes, 12 of 17. As of October 19, 2026, flickr.com's robots.txt blocks 12 of the 17 AI crawlers we check from the whole site. It keeps the other 5 out of parts of the site. 5 of them are named in a group of their own; the others follow its rules for every crawler.

We did not request /llms.txt: robots.txt does not allow ContextFetchBot to fetch it. robots.txt does not allow ContextFetchBot to fetch the homepage, so we did not measure it.

Each crawler, by its robots.txt rules

From https://flickr.com/robots.txt (2,210 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
GPTBotOpenAIBlockedRules for all crawlers (*)10
ChatGPT-UserOpenAIPartly blockedIts own group190
OAI-SearchBotOpenAIPartly blockedIts own group190
ClaudeBotAnthropicBlockedRules for all crawlers (*)10
Claude-UserAnthropicPartly blockedIts own group190
Claude-SearchBotAnthropicPartly blockedIts own group190
anthropic-aiAnthropicBlockedRules for all crawlers (*)10
PerplexityBotPerplexityPartly blockedIts own group190
Perplexity-UserPerplexityBlockedRules for all crawlers (*)10
Google-ExtendedGoogleBlockedRules for all crawlers (*)10
Applebot-ExtendedAppleBlockedRules for all crawlers (*)10
CCBotCommon CrawlBlockedRules for all crawlers (*)10
BytespiderByteDanceBlockedRules for all crawlers (*)10
AmazonbotAmazonBlockedRules for all crawlers (*)10
meta-externalagentMetaBlockedRules for all crawlers (*)10
cohere-aiCohereBlockedRules for all crawlers (*)10
DiffbotDiffbotBlockedRules for all crawlers (*)10
ContextFetchBot (us)ContextFetchBlockedRules for all crawlers (*)10
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.

Read flickr.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. flickr.com's robots.txt 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://flickr.com/"

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