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Does lemonde.fr block ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity?

Yes. lemonde.fr's robots.txt blocks Claude-SearchBot, so Claude cannot read its home page, and it also blocks AI training.

Crawler by crawler

  • Google Search Googlebotallowed
  • Bing (also feeds ChatGPT search and Copilot) Bingbotallowed
  • ChatGPT search OAI-SearchBotallowed
  • ChatGPT reading a link ChatGPT-Userallowed
  • Perplexity PerplexityBotallowed
  • Claude search Claude-SearchBotblocked
  • Gemini (Google AI) Google-Extendedblocked
  • OpenAI model training GPTBot training onlyallowed
  • Anthropic model training ClaudeBot training onlyblocked

From lemonde.fr/robots.txt, home page path. Re-check it live

History

Same as shown above since 2026-09-28. We re-check it every few days.

We read each site's robots.txt as an ordinary visitor sees it and test the home page path (/) for each crawler, using the same rules Google documents (most specific group, longest matching rule). Some sites serve a different robots.txt to verified crawlers, and a site can allow the home page but block other sections, so treat this as what the public file says, not a guarantee.

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