Does producthunt.com block ChatGPT?
producthunt.com permits all 30 tracked AI crawlers. Nothing in its robots.txt restricts training, search indexing or on-demand fetching by the operators tracked here.
That is exactly the median across the 389 sites in this dataset. Resolved from https://producthunt.com/robots.txt on 3 November 2026.
Does producthunt.com block each AI product?
| AI product | Position in robots.txt | Crawlers checked |
|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | Allows | 3 |
| Claude | Allows | 3 |
| Perplexity | Allows | 2 |
| Gemini and Google AI | Allows | 3 |
| Microsoft Copilot | Allows | 1 |
| Apple Intelligence | Allows | 1 |
| Meta AI | Allows | 2 |
Has producthunt.com changed its AI crawler rules?
We read this file every week. Between 17 August 2026 and 3 November 2026 we recorded no lasting change in which AI crawlers it blocks. See which sites did change their rules.
What producthunt.com's robots.txt says about each AI crawler
A crawler named directly in its own group is governed by that group. One not named falls back to the wildcard group. Where neither exists the crawler is reported as not listed — no policy has been expressed, and in practice most crawlers will proceed.
| User-agent | Operator | Purpose | Access | Decided by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
OAI-SearchBot | OpenAI | search indexing | Allowed | wildcard policy |
GPTBot | OpenAI | model training | Allowed | wildcard policy |
ChatGPT-User | OpenAI | on-demand fetch | Allowed | wildcard policy |
Claude-SearchBot | Anthropic | search indexing | Allowed | wildcard policy |
ClaudeBot | Anthropic | model training | Allowed | wildcard policy |
Claude-User | Anthropic | on-demand fetch | Allowed | wildcard policy |
PerplexityBot | Perplexity | search indexing | Allowed | wildcard policy |
Perplexity-User | Perplexity | on-demand fetch | Allowed | wildcard policy |
Google-Extended | Gemini training control | Allowed | wildcard policy | |
Bingbot | Microsoft | Copilot search index | Allowed | wildcard policy |
Applebot-Extended | Apple | Apple Intelligence control | Allowed | wildcard policy |
Meta-ExternalAgent | Meta | model training | Allowed | wildcard policy |
Amazonbot | Amazon | model training | Allowed | wildcard policy |
Bytespider | ByteDance | model training | Allowed | wildcard policy |
CCBot | Common Crawl | training dataset | Allowed | wildcard policy |
GoogleOther | research and development fetch | Allowed | wildcard policy | |
Google-CloudVertexBot | Vertex AI on-demand fetch | Allowed | wildcard policy | |
Meta-ExternalFetcher | Meta | on-demand fetch | Allowed | wildcard policy |
MistralAI-User | Mistral AI | on-demand fetch | Allowed | wildcard policy |
cohere-ai | Cohere | model training | Allowed | wildcard policy |
DuckAssistBot | DuckDuckGo | on-demand fetch | Allowed | wildcard policy |
YouBot | You.com | search indexing | Allowed | wildcard policy |
Timpibot | Timpi | training dataset | Allowed | wildcard policy |
AI2Bot | Allen Institute for AI | model training | Allowed | wildcard policy |
Diffbot | Diffbot | structured-data extraction | Allowed | wildcard policy |
ImagesiftBot | ImageSift | training dataset | Allowed | wildcard policy |
PetalBot | Huawei | search indexing | Allowed | wildcard policy |
Omgilibot | Webz.io | training dataset | Allowed | wildcard policy |
ElevenlabsCrawler | ElevenLabs | model training | Allowed | wildcard policy |
ElevenlabsBot | ElevenLabs | on-demand fetch | Allowed | wildcard policy |
What this does and does not tell you
It tells you what producthunt.com states in its robots.txt, which is the file every well-behaved AI crawler consults before fetching. It is a stated preference and a voluntary protocol — not an access control, and not evidence about what any crawler actually did.
It also says nothing about whether the content is useful to an answer engine once fetched. Access is the precondition; extractable passages, visible dates, named authorship and sourced claims decide whether a reachable page is actually cited. Sign up for a free AI visibility report to see the original answers and which pages they cite.
Finally, robots.txt changes. This page reflects producthunt.com as it was on 3 November 2026. To see the current position, inspect the domain’s live robots.txt file and its matching rules.
Check your own site
Review the intended access policy for each crawler against your own robots.txt file. The ChatGPT citation guide explains the distinction between training and search access.
Browse the full study of 389 measured domains, or the social and media platforms category, to see how this compares.
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