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Does france24.com block AI crawlers?
Yes, 12 of 17. As of October 19, 2026, france24.com's robots.txt blocks 12 of the 17 AI crawlers we check from the whole site. It allows the other 5 everywhere. 12 of them are named in a group of their own; the others follow its rules for every crawler.
Its /llms.txt answered HTTP 409. Its homepage is 202,103 tokens of raw HTML, 1,188 as Markdown (0.6%) and 92 pruned for the question “What is france24.com?”.
Each crawler, by its robots.txt rules
From https://www.france24.com/robots.txt (12,929 bytes, 327 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.
| Crawler | Operator | Verdict | Rules that apply | Disallow rules | Allow rules |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | OpenAI | Blocked | Its own group | 1 | 0 |
| ChatGPT-User | OpenAI | Blocked | Its own group | 1 | 0 |
| OAI-SearchBot | OpenAI | Blocked | Its own group | 1 | 0 |
| ClaudeBot | Anthropic | Blocked | Its own group | 1 | 0 |
| Claude-User | Anthropic | Blocked | Its own group | 1 | 0 |
| Claude-SearchBot | Anthropic | Blocked | Its own group | 1 | 0 |
| anthropic-ai | Anthropic | Blocked | Its own group | 1 | 0 |
| PerplexityBot | Perplexity | Blocked | Its own group | 1 | 0 |
| Perplexity-User | Perplexity | Blocked | Its own group | 2 | 0 |
| Google-Extended | Blocked | Its own group | 1 | 0 | |
| Applebot-Extended | Apple | Allowed | Rules for all crawlers (*) | 0 | 0 |
| CCBot | Common Crawl | Blocked | Its own group | 1 | 0 |
| Bytespider | ByteDance | Allowed | Rules for all crawlers (*) | 0 | 0 |
| Amazonbot | Amazon | Allowed | Rules for all crawlers (*) | 0 | 0 |
| meta-externalagent | Meta | Allowed | Rules for all crawlers (*) | 0 | 0 |
| cohere-ai | Cohere | Blocked | Its own group | 1 | 0 |
| Diffbot | Diffbot | Allowed | Rules for all crawlers (*) | 0 | 0 |
| ContextFetchBot (us) | ContextFetch | Allowed | Rules for all crawlers (*) | 0 | 0 |
Its homepage in tokens
https://www.france24.com/en/, 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.
| Group | Raw HTML | Markdown | Pruned |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tokens | 202,103 | 1,188 | 92 |
Read france24.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.
curl -si "https://api.contextfetch.dev/r/https://france24.com/"curl -X POST https://api.contextfetch.dev/v1/keys/freeHow ContextFetchBot behaves · All sites and the method · Raw data
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