Claim 48
Anthropic supports the non-standard robots.txt Crawl-delay extension for ClaudeBot.
- entity
- ClaudeBot
- field
- honours_crawl_delay
- value
yes- statement
- Anthropic supports the non-standard robots.txt Crawl-delay extension for ClaudeBot.
- 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
- "To limit crawling activity, we support the non-standard Crawl-delay extension to robots.txt. An example of this might be: User-agent: ClaudeBot Crawl-delay: 1" source dated 2026-04-07
- method
- vendor_doc
- verified_at
- 2026-09-13
- confidence
- high
- status
- current
- supersedes
- none
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