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Does repubblica.it block AI crawlers?

Yes, 9 of 17. As of October 19, 2026, repubblica.it's robots.txt blocks 9 of the 17 AI crawlers we check from the whole site. It keeps 7 more out of parts of the site and allows 1 everywhere. 10 of them are named in a group of their own; the others follow its rules for every crawler.

It serves an llms.txt (2,331 bytes, starting with a Markdown title). Its homepage is 104,003 tokens of raw HTML, 20 as Markdown (0.0%) and 20 pruned for the question “What is repubblica.it?”.

Each crawler, by its robots.txt rules

From https://www.repubblica.it/robots.txt (7,368 bytes, 108 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
GPTBotOpenAIBlockedIts own group10
ChatGPT-UserOpenAIPartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)531
OAI-SearchBotOpenAIPartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)531
ClaudeBotAnthropicPartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)531
Claude-UserAnthropicPartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)531
Claude-SearchBotAnthropicPartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)531
anthropic-aiAnthropicBlockedIts own group10
PerplexityBotPerplexityBlockedIts own group10
Perplexity-UserPerplexityPartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)531
Google-ExtendedGoogleBlockedIts own group10
Applebot-ExtendedAppleBlockedIts own group10
CCBotCommon CrawlBlockedIts own group10
BytespiderByteDanceBlockedIts own group10
AmazonbotAmazonAllowedIts own group01
meta-externalagentMetaPartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)531
cohere-aiCohereBlockedIts own group10
DiffbotDiffbotBlockedIts own group10
ContextFetchBot (us)ContextFetchPartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)531
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.repubblica.it/, 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 repubblica.it homepage as raw HTML, Markdown and pruned context, October 19, 2026
GroupRaw HTMLMarkdownPruned
Tokens104,0032020

Read repubblica.it 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. repubblica.it'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://repubblica.it/"

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

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