← all sites
academia.edu
academia.edu currently blocks 9 of the 16 AI crawlers we track. Snapshot: 2026-08-25
- Category
- top1k
- robots.txt
- readable — view live file
- Default (
*) policy - blocked — this site closes its doors to every crawler it doesn't explicitly name
- llms.txt
- none found
- Machine-readable
- JSON for this site
All 16 tracked AI bots
| Bot | Operator | Purpose | Status | How it's set |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | OpenAI | training | blocked | named explicitly |
| ChatGPT-User | OpenAI | fetch | restricted | named explicitly |
| OAI-SearchBot | OpenAI | search | restricted | named explicitly |
| ClaudeBot | Anthropic | training | blocked* | default (*) rules |
| Claude-User | Anthropic | fetch | restricted | named explicitly |
| Claude-SearchBot | Anthropic | search | restricted | named explicitly |
| Google-Extended | training | blocked | named explicitly | |
| Applebot-Extended | Apple | training | blocked | named explicitly |
| PerplexityBot | Perplexity | search | restricted | named explicitly |
| Perplexity-User | Perplexity | fetch | blocked* | default (*) rules |
| CCBot | Common Crawl | training | blocked* | default (*) rules |
| Bytespider | ByteDance | training | blocked* | default (*) rules |
| meta-externalagent | Meta | training | blocked* | default (*) rules |
| Amazonbot | Amazon | training | blocked* | default (*) rules |
| DuckAssistBot | DuckDuckGo | search | restricted | named explicitly |
| MistralAI-User | Mistral | fetch | restricted | named explicitly |
Policy history
Tracking began 2026-08-25 (index founding). Changes to this site's AI policy will appear here as daily crawls accumulate.