{
  "id": 1739024,
  "title": "Cloudflare's AI block names eight crawlers. None is ChatGPT's search bot",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/18/cloudflares-ai-block-names-eight-crawlers-none-is-chatgpts-search-bot",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-18T15:35:36.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/th3nate/cloudflares-ai-block-names-eight-crawlers-none-is-chatgpts-search-bot-4ikm"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The recent changes to Cloudflare's managed robots.txt settings have inadvertently blocked certain AI crawlers while allowing others. This includes barring ChatGPT's training crawler (GPTBot) but permitting its search crawler (Google-Extended). The block also impacts Perplexity's crawler and Google's Gemini model training crawler (Google-Extended). The block's selective nature appears deliberate, affecting crawlers based on whether they are designated as \"AI crawlers\" or \"AI search\" crawlers in Cloudflare's documentation.",
  "summary": "Eight user agents, and the one that decides whether ChatGPT cites you is not among them. An r/SEO post from April, 53 points and 40 comments, says Cloudflare quietly cut the author's site off from ChatGPT, from Perplexity and from Google's AI Overviews. I went and read the block. It names ChatGPT's training crawler and not its search crawler, and it never mentions Perplexity at all. The Google…",
  "key_points": [
    "Cloudflare blocks eight AI crawlers, excluding Google-Extended",
    "GPTBot crawler from ChatGPT is blocked by Cloudflare",
    "Perplexity's crawler and Google's Gemini model training crawler are allowed"
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}