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Block AI Crawlers

Tell AI (Artificial Intelligence) companies not to scrape your site for their AI products.

By lastsplash (a11n)·AI·Free
4.8(5 reviews)
·1.0K+ active installs·Updated 1 month ago
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As of April 2026, Block AI Crawlers is a WordPress AI plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 4.8/5 rating from 5 reviews. It has been downloaded 13K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.8+ and PHP 8.2+. Available on WordPress.org since 2024. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Download volume is stable this week. Top alternative: SEOPress – On-site SEO & Analytics.

4.8/55 reviews
1.0K+active installs
13K+total downloads
2 yearssince 2024

Overview

Protect Your Content from AI Scraping

This plugin helps you prevent AI crawlers from using your content as training data for their products. By updating your site’s robots.txt, it blocks common AI crawlers and scrapers, aiming to protect your content from being used in the training of Large Language Models (LLMs).

Features

Blocks AI Crawlers

Includes:

  • OpenAI – Blocks crawlers used for ChatGPT
  • Google – Blocks crawlers used by Google’s Gemini AI products
  • Facebook / Meta – Used for Facebook’s AI training
  • Anthropic AI – Blocks crawlers used by Anthropic
  • Perplexity – Block crawlers used by Perplexity
  • Applebot – Blocks crawlers used by Apple
  • … and more!

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Ratings & Reviews

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Recent Reviews

Useful plugin
by kotoedo·8 months ago·1 reply

Great plugin, used it with the opposite intention; i.e., to quickly obtain a list of AI crawlers to later allow on a website 😉

Thank You
by kiyasu·11 months ago·1 reply

Seems to do what it does, and let’s hope as many sites and companies would obey the robots.txt file. I did have to remove or rename my hand-typed robots.txt file for this work, but after that, I am very happy with the results.

My only “issue” with the newly created robots.txt file is that it includes extra lines like the Sitemap line that I want to change, but this may or may not be related to this plugin and I’ll figure out how to change those other parts of the robots.txt.

Anyway, I like using this plugin together with the “Disabled Source, Disabled Right Click and Content Protection” plugin. Very happy with the results these two plugins did for my Woocommerce store!

Excellent, much needed and off to a good start
by scbv·1 year ago

Really appreciate this plugin. Have had it for about 1 month, great to see new updates getting pushed out. The one feature would love to see is how to append or edit to the virtual robots.txt file. Tried using “Block AI Crawlers” plugin in conjunction with the plugin “Virtual Robots.txt” and it’s one or the other, can’t use both. “Virtual Robots.txt” overrides “Block AI Crawlers”.

Very useful plugin; works well
by gfields108·1 year ago

A simple plugin that asks (via the WordPress robot.txt file) multiple AI crawlers to leave your site alone. Just works and saves much trouble manually updating the robots.txt file.

Useful plugin
by sginsbe·1 year ago

Does what it says on the tin. Very much appreciated, thank you!

Download Trends

Today: 25Yesterday: 23This week: 148Period total: 9K

Compatibility

WordPress6.8+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4
PHP8.2+ required

Version Adoption

v1.5
99.3%
v1.3
0.7%

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

1.5.6 – 02/15/2026

  • Fix: Update Claude blocking
  • New: Block MistralAI-user
  • New: Block LinerBot
  • New: Block Google-CloudVertexBot
  • New: Block VelenPublicWebCrawler
View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

lastsplash (a11n)lastsplash (a11n)
Plugin Info
Version
1.5.6
Last Updated
Feb 15, 2026
WP Requires
6.8+
Tested Up To
6.9.4
PHP Requires
8.2+
Active Installs
1.0K+
Downloads
13K+
Added
Mar 13, 2024
Business
Free

Tags

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Developer

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lastsplash (a11n)
8 plugins0.0M+ total installs
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