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Can AI Crawlers Read Your Website? robots.txt Is Only Half the Answer

Probably not all of them, and your robots.txt will not tell you which. A robots.txt file only says what crawlers may read. Your host, CDN and firewall decide what they can read, and they answer first. We learned this on our own site in November 2026: robots.txt welcomed every AI crawler, yet OpenAI…

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  1. 2026-11-13 09:35 · DEV Community — AI
    Can AI Crawlers Read Your Website? robots.txt Is Only Half the Answer

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