AI crawler access · bu.edu
Does bu.edu block GPTBot and other AI crawlers?
GPTBot: partially blockedAs of 2026-10-05, the robots.txt of bu.edu blocks 0 of 29 AI crawlers on the home page and partially blocks 7 more: GPTBot is partially blocked, ClaudeBot is partially blocked and PerplexityBot is allowed.
- 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://bu.edu/robots.txt - llms.txt: no
- Content-Signal: none
- Category: Education · domain: .edu · popularity band: Tranco 1001-3000
- Last checked: (daily)
All 29 AI crawlers on bu.edu
Status for the home page (/) under bu.edu'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 | allowed | |
| Applebot-Extended | Apple | allowed |
| Meta-ExternalAgent | Meta | partial |
| Amazonbot | Amazon | partial |
| MistralAI-Training | Mistral | allowed |
| CCBot | Common Crawl | partial |
| Bytespider | ByteDance | partial |
| cohere-ai | Cohere | allowed |
| AI search crawlers | ||
| OAI-SearchBot | OpenAI | allowed |
| Claude-SearchBot | Anthropic | allowed |
| PerplexityBot | Perplexity | allowed |
| Google-CloudVertexBot | allowed | |
| Applebot | Apple | partial |
| 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 | allowed |
| Amzn-User | Amazon | allowed |
| MistralAI-User | Mistral | allowed |
| Ads review crawlers | ||
| OAI-AdsBot | OpenAI | allowed |
| meta-externalads | Meta | allowed |
Compared with other education sites in the index: 4.3% of them block GPTBot and 3.4% block ClaudeBot (n=232). Across all 8,344 readable sites: 12.1% block GPTBot. All education sites →
On .edu domains: 3.8% of 160 readable sites block GPTBot and 4.4% serve an llms.txt. All .edu sites →
History
No change recorded since daily tracking started on 2026-10-02. We re-check bu.edu every day; a change in its AI crawler rules shows up here and on the index page.
FAQ
- Does bu.edu block GPTBot?
- Partly. As of 2026-10-05, https://bu.edu/robots.txt allows GPTBot (OpenAI's AI training crawler) on the home page but disallows some paths.
- Does bu.edu block ClaudeBot?
- Partly. As of 2026-10-05, https://bu.edu/robots.txt allows ClaudeBot (Anthropic's AI training crawler) on the home page but disallows some paths.
- Does bu.edu block PerplexityBot?
- No. As of 2026-10-05, https://bu.edu/robots.txt allows PerplexityBot, Perplexity's AI search crawler, on the home page.
- Can ChatGPT search (OAI-SearchBot) crawl bu.edu?
- No. As of 2026-10-05, https://bu.edu/robots.txt allows OAI-SearchBot, OpenAI's AI search crawler, on the home page.
- Does bu.edu block Google-Extended (Gemini training)?
- No. As of 2026-10-05, https://bu.edu/robots.txt allows Google-Extended, Google's AI training crawler, on the home page.
- Does bu.edu have an llms.txt file?
- No. As of 2026-10-05, bu.edu does not serve a plain-text /llms.txt file.
- How can I check bu.edu 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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