Which social and media platforms
block AI crawlers?
Communities, streaming and creative platforms. 115 domains measured; 66 block at least one of the 36 tracked AI crawlers.
66of 115 social and media platforms block at least one AI crawler · median access 92%
The AI crawlers these sites block most
CCBot is blocked most often here, by 56 of 115 sites. What blocking each one means is in the AI crawler directory.
| User-agent | Operator | Purpose | Sites blocking |
|---|---|---|---|
CCBot | Common Crawl | training dataset | 56 of 115 |
Bytespider | ByteDance | model training | 52 of 115 |
ClaudeBot | Anthropic | model training | 46 of 115 |
Google-Extended | Gemini training control | 46 of 115 | |
Applebot-Extended | Apple | Apple Intelligence control | 43 of 115 |
Meta-ExternalAgent | Meta | model training | 43 of 115 |
GPTBot | OpenAI | model training | 41 of 115 |
Amazonbot | Amazon | model training | 39 of 115 |
Every domain in this category
Sorted by the share of tracked AI crawlers permitted, lowest first. Each report shows all 36 verdicts and the robots.txt rule behind them.
Method and caveats are described on the full study page: one robots.txt fetch per domain, resolved against 36 published AI user-agents, reported as the voluntary policy it is.