Blocklist · Zyte (open-source framework)

Sites that block Scrapy

513 of the 21,133 domains we have measured, 2%, disallow scrapy at the site root in robots.txt. Scrapy collects content that may be used to train a model.

Every domain here has withheld its content from Zyte (open-source framework)'s training crawl. That is a separate decision from appearing in the operator's answers, which is governed by a different token.

The measurement

513 of 21,133 measured domains (2%) disallow scrapy at the site root in robots.txt. Every domain named on this page was fetched directly and its robots.txt parsed against RFC 9309; none of it is inferred from a third-party index.

Measured 2026-08-23 by direct request to every domain in the corpus. Method: how this is measured. Reuse under CC BY 4.0 with attribution.

Cite as: Crawl Census, "Sites that block Scrapy", measured 2026-08-23. https://crawlcensus.com/blocked/scrapy

The list 513 domains

RankDomainTLDAI access score
26 amazon.com .com 40
58 yahoo.com .com 69
62 msn.com .com 34
121 amazonvideo.com .com 63
125 snapchat.com .com 63
157 nytimes.com .com 65
190 cnn.com .com 50
207 bbc.com .com 69
226 bbc.co.uk .uk 70
246 who.int .int 85
260 launchpad.net .net 46
282 weather.com .com 79
318 amazon.co.uk .uk 33
377 amazon.de .de 33
426 businessinsider.com .com 85
457 cnbc.com .com 61
494 amazon.co.jp .jp 33
499 aol.com .com 60
552 usatoday.com .com 65
556 alrosa.ru .ru 62
609 amazon.fr .fr 33
623 amazon.co.za .za 33
627 dailymail.co.uk .uk 62
635 amazon.ca .ca 33
659 amazon.in .in 33
662 cnet.com .com 75
681 dailymail.com .com 62
682 primevideo.com .com 50
706 amazon.it .it 33
725 amazon.es .es 33
763 bild.de .de 74
800 welt.de .de 65
812 amazon.com.au .au 33
815 theverge.com .com 68
823 nbcnews.com .com 63
833 amazon.com.br .br 33
834 lefigaro.fr .fr 74
942 repubblica.it .it 77
955 corriere.it .it 79
980 theatlantic.com .com 71
1,019 theconversation.com .com 52
1,032 amazon.com.mx .mx 34
1,042 spiegel.de .de 72
1,083 nypost.com .com 73
1,189 aftonbladet.se .se 71
1,196 vnexpress.net .net 81
1,208 vg.no .no 73
1,223 furaffinity.net .net 41
1,272 vietnam.vn .vn 77
1,300 f95zone.to .to 49
1,305 dw.com .com 36
1,409 iltalehti.fi .fi 50
1,765 newsweek.com .com 68
1,831 zdnet.com .com 61
1,835 wikihow.com .com 72
1,984 themoviedb.org .org 61
1,988 mos.ru .ru 74
1,993 ign.com .com 64
2,006 amazon.eg .eg 34
2,010 mashable.com .com 62
2,189 vox.com .com 68
2,258 mparticle.com .com 57
2,325 nrk.no .no 61
2,346 slate.com .com 78
2,423 pcmag.com .com 65
2,430 sfgate.com .com 49
2,508 yr.no .no 61
2,530 smh.com.au .au 69
2,561 technologyreview.com .com 75
2,656 tmdb.org .org 66
2,659 theglobeandmail.com .com 56
2,691 newscientist.com .com 57
2,951 asahi.com .com 72
2,969 today.com .com 59
2,975 imageshack.us .us 29
3,116 newsbreak.com .com 84
3,198 metro.co.uk .uk 56
3,208 n-able.com .com 81
3,276 myanimelist.net .net 65
3,286 flipboard.com .com 60
3,342 lifehacker.com .com 63
3,368 nzherald.co.nz .nz 47
3,371 nymag.com .com 71
3,457 telstra.com .com 81
3,463 postman.com .com 81
3,499 amazon.se .se 37
3,520 amazon.ae .ae 38
3,524 chron.com .com 51
3,595 politico.eu .eu 58
3,598 amazon.nl .nl 37
3,603 macomnet.ru .ru 59
3,642 yahoo.net .net 77
3,771 yle.fi .fi 80
3,800 ebsco.com .com 69
3,869 pcworld.com .com 77
3,882 radiofrance.fr .fr 80
3,909 aol.de .de 60
3,916 news24.com .com 56
4,014 eurekalert.org .org 45
4,065 seekingalpha.com .com 79
4,083 stern.de .de 78
4,097 amazon.pl .pl 37
4,107 thestar.com .com 60
4,108 howtogeek.com .com 83
4,161 kompas.com .com 80
4,199 mainichi.jp .jp 58
4,240 amazon.sa .sa 38
4,354 computerworld.com .com 77
4,497 gazeta.pl .pl 66
4,512 amazon.com.tr .tr 37
4,551 yna.co.kr .kr 83
4,592 lastampa.it .it 77
4,684 msnbc.com .com 73
4,753 xda-developers.com .com 81
4,766 adweek.com .com 67
4,791 collider.com .com 81
4,961 20min.ch .ch 79
5,037 imageshack.com .com 29
5,096 nine.com.au .au 71
5,146 everydayhealth.com .com 57
5,153 theage.com.au .au 63
5,223 oilprice.com .com 90
5,230 ms.now .now 73
5,251 dallasnews.com .com 50
5,274 csmonitor.com .com 74
5,297 chinatimes.com .com 79
5,310 kotaku.com .com 89
5,395 makeuseof.com .com 82
5,416 gentoo.org .org 57
5,455 gamerant.com .com 79
5,463 rainews.it .it 67
5,495 benzinga.com .com 67
5,547 amazon.ie .ie 40
5,671 codeforces.com .com 45
5,684 theepochtimes.com .com 80
5,752 sankei.com .com 76
5,772 zetaglobal.net .net 87
5,788 ibtimes.com .com 84
5,879 cio.com .com 85
5,893 getpostman.com .com 86
5,895 movieweb.com .com 85
5,904 windstream.net .net 53
5,912 pagesix.com .com 80
5,948 suntimes.com .com 80
5,993 eonline.com .com 74
6,006 insider.com .com 89
6,089 azcentral.com .com 69
6,184 nyt.com .com 65
6,185 trustedshops.com .com 75
6,194 ifixit.com .com 73
6,228 sbnation.com .com 69
6,245 raiplay.it .it 55
6,246 eurogamer.net .net 57
6,288 vulture.com .com 71
6,352 tv2.dk .dk 74
6,356 freep.com .com 73
6,361 ici.fr .fr 87
6,396 parismatch.com .com 74
6,473 sfchronicle.com .com 54
6,504 telstra.com.au .au 86
6,512 telegram.com .com 73
6,522 eater.com .com 67
6,544 rtvslo.si .si 65
6,557 sportingnews.com .com 83
6,702 infoworld.com .com 82
6,737 altavista.com .com 53
6,808 chunichi.co.jp .jp 71
6,816 maxroll.gg .gg 59
6,895 togetter.com .com 73
6,948 nicematin.com .com 78
7,082 aktuality.sk .sk 86
7,106 nrc.nl .nl 85
7,118 nme.com .com 65
7,119 rp-online.de .de 63
7,178 sanspo.com .com 77
7,182 sport.de .de 84
7,239 gala.de .de 78
7,247 nishinippon.co.jp .jp 69
7,268 nzz.ch .ch 76
7,345 rpp.pe .pe 89
7,372 15min.lt .lt 74
7,423 jiji.com .com 81
7,455 amazon.sg .sg 40
7,531 theonion.com .com 84
7,540 freeones.com .com 71
7,562 nettavisen.no .no 63
7,821 gala.fr .fr 89
7,856 popsugar.com .com 75
7,863 refinery29.com .com 78
7,941 sport.pl .pl 74
7,947 cnnamador.com .com 65
7,981 afr.com .com 80
8,094 nefisyemektarifleri.com .com 67
8,102 nrdc.org .org 73
8,263 hochi.news .news 78
8,380 veikkaus.fi .fi 67
8,421 technorati.com .com 53
8,435 thecut.com .com 84
8,502 a1.net .net 77
8,533 blackmagicdesign.com .com 68
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Rank is the domain's position in the popularity list used to seed the corpus; a dash means it was scanned on request rather than seeded. Score is the site's overall AI access score, which blocking depresses but does not by itself determine.

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