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What it says about automated access

robots.txt:

robots.txt https://www.theguardian.com/robots.txt read 2026-10-03

AgentRules it follows (RFC 9309)Over the whole file
*the * group48 Disallow rules; / allowed
ClaudeBotits own groupdisallowed at / (line 102)
Claude-SearchBotits own groupdisallowed at / (line 102)
Claude-Userits own groupdisallowed at / (line 102)
Applebot-Extendedits own groupdisallowed at / (line 102)
PerplexityBotits own groupdisallowed at / (line 102)
CCBotits own groupdisallowed at / (line 102)
Bytespiderits own groupdisallowed at / (line 102)
meta-externalagentits own groupdisallowed at / (line 102)

With no group of their own, these follow the * group: Googlebot, Bingbot, GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, Google-Extended.

Official way in

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Documents

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license.xml licence · not read by us: an XML file named in robots.txt; our crawler does not fetch data files

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