Rank 898 in the Majestic Million · checked October 19, 2026
Does libsyn.com block AI crawlers?
No. As of October 19, 2026, libsyn.com's robots.txt allows all 17 AI crawlers we check everywhere. None of them is named in the file: they all follow its rules for every crawler (User-agent: *).
It serves an llms.txt (8,679 bytes, starting with a Markdown title). Its homepage is 36,128 tokens of raw HTML, 359 as Markdown (1.0%) and 304 pruned for the question “What is libsyn.com?”.
Each crawler, by its robots.txt rules
From https://libsyn.com/robots.txt (168 bytes, 1 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 | Allowed | Rules for all crawlers (*) | 0 | 0 |
| ChatGPT-User | OpenAI | Allowed | Rules for all crawlers (*) | 0 | 0 |
| OAI-SearchBot | OpenAI | Allowed | Rules for all crawlers (*) | 0 | 0 |
| ClaudeBot | Anthropic | Allowed | Rules for all crawlers (*) | 0 | 0 |
| Claude-User | Anthropic | Allowed | Rules for all crawlers (*) | 0 | 0 |
| Claude-SearchBot | Anthropic | Allowed | Rules for all crawlers (*) | 0 | 0 |
| anthropic-ai | Anthropic | Allowed | Rules for all crawlers (*) | 0 | 0 |
| PerplexityBot | Perplexity | Allowed | Rules for all crawlers (*) | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity-User | Perplexity | Allowed | Rules for all crawlers (*) | 0 | 0 |
| Google-Extended | Allowed | Rules for all crawlers (*) | 0 | 0 | |
| Applebot-Extended | Apple | Allowed | Rules for all crawlers (*) | 0 | 0 |
| CCBot | Common Crawl | Allowed | Rules for all crawlers (*) | 0 | 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 | Allowed | Rules for all crawlers (*) | 0 | 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://libsyn.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.
| Group | Raw HTML | Markdown | Pruned |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tokens | 36,128 | 359 | 304 |
Read libsyn.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://libsyn.com/"curl -X POST https://api.contextfetch.dev/v1/keys/freeHow ContextFetchBot behaves · All sites and the method · Raw data
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