Publishers / theintercept.com
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7 of 14 AI agents get the full page at https://theintercept.com/. Checked 2026-09-25 09:33 UTC.
theintercept.com scores 67 out of 100 for machine visibility, number 25 of the 100 content publishers checked on 2026-09-25. 7 of 14 AI agents receive the full page: 3 of 8 training crawlers, 2 of 3 AI search indexes and 2 of 3 assistant fetchers. 6 are refused in robots.txt and 1 is refused at the HTTP level. The pattern is "cite me, don't train on me": 5 of 8 training crawlers are refused while 4 of 6 search and assistant fetchers get through. Bytespider received a bot-management challenge instead of the page. There is no llms.txt.
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Human
- Status
- 200
- Title
- The Intercept
- H1
- Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offline
- Words
- 846
- Scripts
- 18 tags · 5 KB
- Meta robots
- index, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1
- Canonical
- https://theintercept.com/
- Server
- nginx
Machine
- robots.txt
- 9 groups · 1 sitemaps
- llms.txt
- missing
- llms-full.txt
- missing
- X-Robots-Tag
- none
- Blocked
- Google-Extended, GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, PerplexityBot, Amazonbot, Bytespider, CCBot
- Degraded
- none
- Challenged
- Bytespider
Gaps
- medium7 of 14 AI agents are blockedGoogle-Extended: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Google-Extended) · GPTBot: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: GPTBot) · ChatGPT-User: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: ChatGPT-User) · PerplexityBot: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: PerplexityBot) · Amazonbot: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Amazonbot) · Bytespider: Bot challenge served (HTTP 429) · CCBot: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: CCBot)
- mediumBot-management challenge served to crawlersBytespider received an interstitial instead of the page. A robots.txt rule is an honest block. A challenge hides the page without saying so.
- lowNo llms.txtOptional, but a short curated index at /llms.txt is the cheapest way to tell assistants what matters on this site.
Every agent
| Agent | Type | robots.txt | Fetch | Words | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Human (Chrome)You | Human | allowedAllow: (empty) | 200140 ms | 846 | visible HTTP 200, 846 words |
| GooglebotGoogle · Classic search index. Also feeds AI Overviews. | Search engine | allowedAllow: (empty) | 200138 ms | 846 | visible HTTP 200, 846 words |
| Google-ExtendedGoogle · Robots-only token controlling Gemini training use. Never fetches on its own. | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | n/a | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Google-Extended) | |
| GPTBotOpenAI · Training crawler for OpenAI models. | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | 200144 ms | 846 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: GPTBot) |
| OAI-SearchBotOpenAI · Indexes for ChatGPT search results and citations. | AI search index | allowedAllow: (empty) | 200128 ms | 846 | visible HTTP 200, 846 words |
| ChatGPT-UserOpenAI · Live fetch when a user asks ChatGPT about a page. | AI assistant (live fetch) | disallowedDisallow: / | 200155 ms | 846 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: ChatGPT-User) |
| ClaudeBotAnthropic · Training crawler for Claude models. | AI training | allowedAllow: (empty) | 200153 ms | 846 | visible HTTP 200, 846 words |
| Claude-SearchBotAnthropic · Indexes for Claude web search. | AI search index | allowedAllow: (empty) | 200157 ms | 846 | visible HTTP 200, 846 words |
| Claude-UserAnthropic · Live fetch when a user asks Claude about a page. | AI assistant (live fetch) | allowedAllow: (empty) | 200159 ms | 846 | visible HTTP 200, 846 words |
| PerplexityBotPerplexity | AI search index | disallowedDisallow: / | 200123 ms | 846 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: PerplexityBot) |
| Perplexity-UserPerplexity | AI assistant (live fetch) | allowedAllow: (empty) | 200130 ms | 846 | visible HTTP 200, 846 words |
| BingbotMicrosoft · Bing index. Also feeds Copilot and ChatGPT search. | Search engine | allowedAllow: (empty) | 200163 ms | 846 | visible HTTP 200, 846 words |
| Applebot-ExtendedApple · Robots-only token for Apple Intelligence training. | AI training | allowedAllow: (empty) | n/a | visible Robots-only token; allowed by robots.txt | |
| Meta-ExternalAgentMeta | AI training | allowedAllow: (empty) | 200167 ms | 846 | visible HTTP 200, 846 words |
| AmazonbotAmazon · Alexa and Amazon AI. | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | 200140 ms | 846 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Amazonbot) |
| BytespiderByteDance · Known for ignoring robots.txt. | AI training | allowedAllow: (empty) | 429 challenge119 ms | 9 | blocked Bot challenge served (HTTP 429) |
| CCBotCommon Crawl · Open dataset used to train most LLMs. | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | 200159 ms | 846 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: CCBot) |
Snapshot
Measured 2026-09-25 09:33 UTC from a residential connection. Sites change their rules often, and sites that verify crawler IPs answer differently to different networks. Run a live comparison to see what theintercept.com does right now, from Cloudflare's network.