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Does linktr.ee block AI crawlers?

Yes, 5 of 17. As of October 19, 2026, linktr.ee's robots.txt blocks anthropic-ai, Bytespider, meta-externalagent, cohere-ai and Diffbot from the whole site. It keeps 10 more out of parts of the site and allows 2 everywhere. 12 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://linktr.ee/robots.txt (11,029 bytes, 60 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 blockedIts own group40
ChatGPT-UserOpenAIPartly blockedIts own group80
OAI-SearchBotOpenAIPartly blockedIts own group40
ClaudeBotAnthropicPartly blockedIts own group40
Claude-UserAnthropicPartly blockedIts own group40
Claude-SearchBotAnthropicPartly blockedIts own group40
anthropic-aiAnthropicBlockedRules for all crawlers (*)10
PerplexityBotPerplexityPartly blockedIts own group40
Perplexity-UserPerplexityPartly blockedIts own group40
Google-ExtendedGoogleAllowedIts own group01
Applebot-ExtendedAppleAllowedIts own group01
CCBotCommon CrawlPartly blockedIts own group40
BytespiderByteDanceBlockedRules for all crawlers (*)10
AmazonbotAmazonPartly blockedIts own group40
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 linktr.ee 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. linktr.ee'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://linktr.ee/"

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.