Claude-Web

Legacy Anthropic crawler (deprecated); many sites still block it explicitly

Should you block it?

Your call — blocking is a legitimate choice

Claude-Web is Anthropic's training/data crawler. Blocking it opts your content out of Anthropic's model training and datasets. It does not remove you from AI answers — citations are governed by separate retrieval crawlers.

Common reasons to block: copyright or licensing policy, competitive sensitivity, paywalled content.
Common reasons to allow: maximum AI reach, research visibility, and being part of the datasets future models learn from.

How to allow it in robots.txt

User-agent: Claude-Web
Allow: /

How to block it

User-agent: Claude-Web
Disallow: /

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