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Does unicode.org block AI crawlers?

Yes, 1 of 17. As of October 19, 2026, unicode.org's robots.txt blocks CCBot from the whole site. It keeps the other 16 out of parts of the site. 1 of them is named in a group of its own; the others follow its rules for every crawler.

It has no llms.txt (HTTP 404). Its homepage is 55 tokens of raw HTML, 11 as Markdown (20.0%) and 11 pruned for the question “What is unicode.org?”.

Each crawler, by its robots.txt rules

From https://unicode.org/robots.txt (17,938 bytes, 4 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 blockedRules for all crawlers (*)4113
ChatGPT-UserOpenAIPartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)4113
OAI-SearchBotOpenAIPartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)4113
ClaudeBotAnthropicPartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)4113
Claude-UserAnthropicPartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)4113
Claude-SearchBotAnthropicPartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)4113
anthropic-aiAnthropicPartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)4113
PerplexityBotPerplexityPartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)4113
Perplexity-UserPerplexityPartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)4113
Google-ExtendedGooglePartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)4113
Applebot-ExtendedApplePartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)4113
CCBotCommon CrawlBlockedIts own group20
BytespiderByteDancePartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)4113
AmazonbotAmazonPartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)4113
meta-externalagentMetaPartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)4113
cohere-aiCoherePartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)4113
DiffbotDiffbotPartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)4113
ContextFetchBot (us)ContextFetchPartly blockedRules for all crawlers (*)4113
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://unicode.org/, 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 unicode.org homepage as raw HTML, Markdown and pruned context, October 19, 2026
GroupRaw HTMLMarkdownPruned
Tokens551111

Read unicode.org 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. unicode.org'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://unicode.org/"

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