Claim 29
Claude-SearchBot respects the Crawl-delay directive in robots.txt when crawling domains.
- entity
- Claude-SearchBot
- field
- honours_crawl_delay
- value
yes- statement
- Claude-SearchBot respects the Crawl-delay directive in robots.txt when crawling domains.
- evidence_url
- https://support.claude.com/en/articles/8896518-does-anthropic-crawl-content-from-the-web-and-how-can-site-owners-block-the-crawler
- evidence_quote
- "We aim for minimal disruption by being thoughtful about how quickly we crawl the same domains and respecting Crawl-delay where appropriate." source dated 2026-04-07
- method
- vendor_doc
- verified_at
- 2026-09-13
- confidence
- medium
- status
- current
- supersedes
- none
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