Scrapy: share of top websites blocking it

On 26 October 2026, 8.2% of the readable top 10k websites fully blocked Scrapy in robots.txt (bounds 6.6% to 26.7% over all 8,220 websites, 1,659 of them unreadable); 3.7% blocked it partly and 4.3% named it.

Last verified 2026-10-26 21:13 UTC (daily run of 2026-10-26). Proof for that day.

Operator
Zyte
What it is
Scrapes data for a variety of uses including training AI.
Description
"AI and machine learning applications often need large amounts of quality data, and web data extraction is a fast, efficient way to build structured data sets."
robots.txt token
User-agent: Scrapy
Listed since
2026-10-26 (in this ledger's registry)

Fully blocks

8.2%

539 sites; bounds 6.6% to 26.7%

Partly blocks

3.7%

244 sites

Name it explicitly

4.3%

282 sites; unreadable: 3,439

Over time

Share of panel sites blocking Scrapy4 lines, 2016-09-05 to 2026-10-26; values between 2.83 and 8.22 %; latest 8.22 %.2.403.965.527.088.65Sep 2016Mar 2019Sep 2021Apr 2024Oct 2026blocks, reconstructed (Common Crawl): 2016-09-05 UTC: 3.17 %blocks, reconstructed (Common Crawl): 2017-09-25 UTC: 3.64 %blocks, reconstructed (Common Crawl): 2018-09-24 UTC: 3.82 %blocks, reconstructed (Common Crawl): 2019-09-23 UTC: 3.05 %blocks, reconstructed (Common Crawl): 2020-09-28 UTC: 2.83 %blocks, reconstructed (Common Crawl): 2021-09-27 UTC: 2.95 %blocks, reconstructed (Common Crawl): 2022-10-03 UTC: 2.92 %blocks, reconstructed (Common Crawl): 2024-09-16 UTC: 3.73 %blocks, reconstructed (Common Crawl): 2026-09-21 UTC: 6.25 %partly blocks, reconstructed (Common Crawl): 2016-09-05 UTC: 5.04 %partly blocks, reconstructed (Common Crawl): 2017-09-25 UTC: 4.91 %partly blocks, reconstructed (Common Crawl): 2018-09-24 UTC: 4.82 %partly blocks, reconstructed (Common Crawl): 2019-09-23 UTC: 4.73 %partly blocks, reconstructed (Common Crawl): 2020-09-28 UTC: 4.79 %partly blocks, reconstructed (Common Crawl): 2021-09-27 UTC: 4.94 %partly blocks, reconstructed (Common Crawl): 2022-10-03 UTC: 4.88 %partly blocks, reconstructed (Common Crawl): 2024-09-16 UTC: 4.98 %partly blocks, reconstructed (Common Crawl): 2026-09-21 UTC: 5.38 %blocks, daily observation: 2026-10-26 UTC: 8.22 %partly blocks, daily observation: 2026-10-26 UTC: 3.72 %

"Partly blocks" counts every robots.txt whose rules for Scrapy disallow some paths, including generic rules for all crawlers (for example /search); it is not a measure of targeted AI policy. Shares are of the readable websites (W − U: 8,220 websites, 1,659 unreadable); the bounds assume none / all of the unreadable sites block. Solid: daily first-party observations (top 10k of the Tranco list W3ZV9, one fixed cohort). Dashed: reconstructed from Common Crawl (top 10k, sites readable in every crawl), a separate series.

Reconstructed values per crawl
CrawlDateBlocksSites read
CC-MAIN-2016-362016-09-053.2%3,216
CC-MAIN-2017-392017-09-253.6%3,216
CC-MAIN-2018-392018-09-243.8%3,216
CC-MAIN-2019-392019-09-233.0%3,216
CC-MAIN-2020-402020-09-282.8%3,216
CC-MAIN-2021-392021-09-273.0%3,216
CC-MAIN-2022-402022-10-032.9%3,216
CC-MAIN-2024-382024-09-163.7%3,216
CC-MAIN-2026-392026-09-216.2%3,216

Recent blockers

Sites that started fully blocking Scrapy since 2026-07-28, highest-ranked first.

DateSiteWhat changed
n-tv.denow blocks Scrapy (was allow)
mastodon.socialnow blocks Scrapy (was allow)

Recent unblockers

DateSiteWhat changed
fragrantica.comnow allows Scrapy (was block)
olhardigital.com.brnow partly blocks Scrapy (was block)

Sites blocking Scrapy now

facebook.com · fbcdn.net · instagram.com · twitter.com (*) · googlevideo.com (*) · amazon.com · whatsapp.net · netflix.com (*) · x.com (*) · pinterest.com (*) · whatsapp.com · yahoo.com · baidu.com (*) · amazonvideo.com · msn.com · reddit.com (*) · skybridge.click (*) · registrar-servers.com (*) · snapchat.com · nytimes.com · flickr.com (*) · cnn.com · meraki.com (*) · bbc.com · bbc.co.uk · t.co (*) · weather.com · linktr.ee (*) · imdb.com (*) · who.int · canva.com · launchpad.net · reuters.com (*) · demdex.net (*) · weibo.com (*) · amazon.co.uk · naver.com (*) · trustpilot.com (*) · netflix.net (*) · nflxvideo.net (*) · wsj.com (*) · amazon.de · cookiedatabase.org (*) · indeed.com · aol.com · gcdn.co (*) · businessinsider.com · kwai.net (*) · quora.com · amazon.co.jp · edgecdn.ru (*) · sohu.com (*) · wired.com · threads.com · netcraze.io (*) · usatoday.com · dailymail.com · telegraph.co.uk · amazon.fr · amazon.ca

(*) blocked through the * group, not by name. Full list in current.csv.

Cite this

InfraRabbit AI Crawl Ledger, "Share of top websites blocking Scrapy", https://infrarabbit.com/crawlers/bot/Scrapy, retrieved 2026-10-26. CC BY 4.0.