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Rank 531 in the Majestic Million · checked October 19, 2026

Does yahoo.co.jp block AI crawlers?

Yes, 2 of 17. As of October 19, 2026, yahoo.co.jp's robots.txt blocks GPTBot and Google-Extended from the whole site. It allows the other 15 everywhere. 2 of them are named in a group of their own; the others follow its rules for every crawler.

Its /llms.txt returns an HTML page, not an llms.txt file. Its homepage is 7,975 tokens of raw HTML, 53 as Markdown (0.7%) and 34 pruned for the question “What is yahoo.co.jp?”.

Each crawler, by its robots.txt rules

From https://www.yahoo.co.jp/robots.txt (87 bytes, 3 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-UserOpenAIAllowedRules for all crawlers (*)00
OAI-SearchBotOpenAIAllowedRules for all crawlers (*)00
ClaudeBotAnthropicAllowedRules for all crawlers (*)00
Claude-UserAnthropicAllowedRules for all crawlers (*)00
Claude-SearchBotAnthropicAllowedRules for all crawlers (*)00
anthropic-aiAnthropicAllowedRules for all crawlers (*)00
PerplexityBotPerplexityAllowedRules for all crawlers (*)00
Perplexity-UserPerplexityAllowedRules for all crawlers (*)00
Google-ExtendedGoogleBlockedIts own group10
Applebot-ExtendedAppleAllowedRules for all crawlers (*)00
CCBotCommon CrawlAllowedRules for all crawlers (*)00
BytespiderByteDanceAllowedRules for all crawlers (*)00
AmazonbotAmazonAllowedRules for all crawlers (*)00
meta-externalagentMetaAllowedRules for all crawlers (*)00
cohere-aiCohereAllowedRules for all crawlers (*)00
DiffbotDiffbotAllowedRules for all crawlers (*)00
ContextFetchBot (us)ContextFetchAllowedRules for all crawlers (*)00
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.yahoo.co.jp/, 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 yahoo.co.jp homepage as raw HTML, Markdown and pruned context, October 19, 2026
GroupRaw HTMLMarkdownPruned
Tokens7,9755334

Read yahoo.co.jp 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.

curl -si "https://api.contextfetch.dev/r/https://yahoo.co.jp/"

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

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