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Does snopes.com block AI crawlers?
Yes, 12 of 17. As of October 19, 2026, snopes.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.
It has no llms.txt (HTTP 404). Its homepage is 175,186 tokens of raw HTML, 84 as Markdown (0.0%) and 60 pruned for the question “What is snopes.com?”.
Each crawler, by its robots.txt rules
From https://www.snopes.com/robots.txt (2,471 bytes, 10 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 | 2 | 0 |
| ChatGPT-User | OpenAI | Blocked | Its own group | 1 | 0 |
| OAI-SearchBot | OpenAI | Allowed | Rules for all crawlers (*) | 0 | 1 |
| ClaudeBot | Anthropic | Blocked | Its own group | 2 | 0 |
| Claude-User | Anthropic | Allowed | Rules for all crawlers (*) | 0 | 1 |
| Claude-SearchBot | Anthropic | Allowed | Rules for all crawlers (*) | 0 | 1 |
| anthropic-ai | Anthropic | Blocked | Its own group | 1 | 0 |
| PerplexityBot | Perplexity | Blocked | Its own group | 1 | 0 |
| Perplexity-User | Perplexity | Allowed | Rules for all crawlers (*) | 0 | 1 |
| Google-Extended | Allowed | Rules for all crawlers (*) | 0 | 1 | |
| Applebot-Extended | Apple | Blocked | Its own group | 1 | 0 |
| CCBot | Common Crawl | Blocked | Its own group | 2 | 0 |
| Bytespider | ByteDance | Blocked | Its own group | 2 | 0 |
| Amazonbot | Amazon | Blocked | Its own group | 2 | 0 |
| meta-externalagent | Meta | Blocked | Its own group | 1 | 0 |
| cohere-ai | Cohere | Blocked | Its own group | 1 | 0 |
| Diffbot | Diffbot | Blocked | Its own group | 1 | 0 |
| ContextFetchBot (us) | ContextFetch | Allowed | Rules for all crawlers (*) | 0 | 1 |
Its homepage in tokens
https://www.snopes.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 | 175,186 | 84 | 60 |
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