Rank 89 in the Majestic Million · checked October 19, 2026
Does who.int block AI crawlers?
Yes, 1 of 17. As of October 19, 2026, who.int's robots.txt blocks CCBot from the whole site. It allows the other 16 everywhere. 1 of them is named in a group of its own; the others follow no group.
It has no llms.txt (HTTP 404). Its homepage is 34,705 tokens of raw HTML, 46 as Markdown (0.1%) and 41 pruned for the question “What is who.int?”.
Each crawler, by its robots.txt rules
From https://www.who.int/robots.txt (18,983 bytes, 527 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 | No group applies | 0 | 0 |
| ChatGPT-User | OpenAI | Allowed | No group applies | 0 | 0 |
| OAI-SearchBot | OpenAI | Allowed | No group applies | 0 | 0 |
| ClaudeBot | Anthropic | Allowed | No group applies | 0 | 0 |
| Claude-User | Anthropic | Allowed | No group applies | 0 | 0 |
| Claude-SearchBot | Anthropic | Allowed | No group applies | 0 | 0 |
| anthropic-ai | Anthropic | Allowed | No group applies | 0 | 0 |
| PerplexityBot | Perplexity | Allowed | No group applies | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity-User | Perplexity | Allowed | No group applies | 0 | 0 |
| Google-Extended | Allowed | No group applies | 0 | 0 | |
| Applebot-Extended | Apple | Allowed | No group applies | 0 | 0 |
| CCBot | Common Crawl | Blocked | Its own group | 1 | 0 |
| Bytespider | ByteDance | Allowed | No group applies | 0 | 0 |
| Amazonbot | Amazon | Allowed | No group applies | 0 | 0 |
| meta-externalagent | Meta | Allowed | No group applies | 0 | 0 |
| cohere-ai | Cohere | Allowed | No group applies | 0 | 0 |
| Diffbot | Diffbot | Allowed | No group applies | 0 | 0 |
| ContextFetchBot (us) | ContextFetch | Allowed | No group applies | 0 | 0 |
Its homepage in tokens
https://www.who.int/, 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 | 34,705 | 46 | 41 |
Read who.int 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.
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