AI crawler access · 20min.ch
Does 20min.ch block GPTBot and other AI crawlers?
GPTBot: partially blockedAs of 2026-10-02, the robots.txt of 20min.ch blocks 0 of 29 AI crawlers on the home page and partially blocks 13 more: GPTBot is partially blocked, ClaudeBot is partially blocked and PerplexityBot is partially blocked.
- Policy: Open (No listed AI crawler is blocked on the home page)
- AI search access: 100% of the AI search and assistant crawlers we track may fetch the home page (these decide whether AI answers can cite the site).
- robots.txt: found at
https://20min.ch/robots.txt - llms.txt: no
- Content-Signal: none
- Category: Other · domain: .ch (Switzerland) · popularity band: Tranco 3000+
- Last checked: (daily)
All 29 AI crawlers on 20min.ch
Status for the home page (/) under 20min.ch's robots.txt. Partially blocked = home page allowed, some paths disallowed.
| Crawler | Operator | robots.txt |
|---|---|---|
| Training crawlers | ||
| GPTBot | OpenAI | partial |
| ClaudeBot | Anthropic | partial |
| Google-Extended | partial | |
| Applebot-Extended | Apple | partial |
| Meta-ExternalAgent | Meta | partial |
| Amazonbot | Amazon | partial |
| MistralAI-Training | Mistral | allowed |
| CCBot | Common Crawl | partial |
| Bytespider | ByteDance | partial |
| cohere-ai | Cohere | partial |
| AI search crawlers | ||
| OAI-SearchBot | OpenAI | partial |
| Claude-SearchBot | Anthropic | allowed |
| PerplexityBot | Perplexity | partial |
| Google-CloudVertexBot | partial | |
| Applebot | Apple | allowed |
| meta-webindexer | Meta | allowed |
| Amzn-SearchBot | Amazon | allowed |
| DuckAssistBot | DuckDuckGo | allowed |
| MistralAI-Index | Mistral | allowed |
| User-triggered fetch crawlers | ||
| ChatGPT-User | OpenAI | allowed |
| Claude-User | Anthropic | allowed |
| Perplexity-User | Perplexity | allowed |
| Google-GeminiNotebook | allowed | |
| Google-Agent | allowed | |
| meta-externalfetcher | Meta | partial |
| Amzn-User | Amazon | allowed |
| MistralAI-User | Mistral | allowed |
| Ads review crawlers | ||
| OAI-AdsBot | OpenAI | allowed |
| meta-externalads | Meta | allowed |
Compared with other other sites in the index: 11.6% of them block GPTBot and 10.4% block ClaudeBot (n=6693). Across all 8,366 readable sites: 12% block GPTBot. All other sites →
On .ch (Switzerland) domains: 16.7% of 36 readable sites block GPTBot and 2.8% serve an llms.txt. All .ch (Switzerland) sites →
History
No change recorded since daily tracking started on 2026-10-02. We re-check 20min.ch every day; a change in its AI crawler rules shows up here and on the index page.
FAQ
- Does 20min.ch block GPTBot?
- Partly. As of 2026-10-02, https://20min.ch/robots.txt allows GPTBot (OpenAI's AI training crawler) on the home page but disallows some paths.
- Does 20min.ch block ClaudeBot?
- Partly. As of 2026-10-02, https://20min.ch/robots.txt allows ClaudeBot (Anthropic's AI training crawler) on the home page but disallows some paths.
- Does 20min.ch block PerplexityBot?
- Partly. As of 2026-10-02, https://20min.ch/robots.txt allows PerplexityBot (Perplexity's AI search crawler) on the home page but disallows some paths.
- Can ChatGPT search (OAI-SearchBot) crawl 20min.ch?
- Partly. As of 2026-10-02, https://20min.ch/robots.txt allows OAI-SearchBot (OpenAI's AI search crawler) on the home page but disallows some paths.
- Does 20min.ch block Google-Extended (Gemini training)?
- Partly. As of 2026-10-02, https://20min.ch/robots.txt allows Google-Extended (Google's AI training crawler) on the home page but disallows some paths.
- Does 20min.ch have an llms.txt file?
- No. As of 2026-10-02, 20min.ch does not serve a plain-text /llms.txt file.
- How can I check 20min.ch or my own site again?
- Use the free AI crawler checker at tools.yukai.uk/free/ai-crawler-checker (no sign-up). To check many sites and get alerts when rules change, use the AI Crawler Access Checker on Apify.
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