Zocdoc

zocdoc.com

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We could not read this site's robots.txt, its public rules file for bots (a DataDome challenge page). A refusal like this usually comes from anti-bot software, not from the site's written rules, so on its own it does not count as a block. The homepage also showed our bot, which says who it is, a DataDome challenge page instead of the site.

Last checked 19 Oct 2026. Rules file could not be read. Everything we checked · History

Bots that train AI Unknown

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Blocking these keeps the site out of future AI training. It does not stop AI from reading the site to answer questions.

Bots for AI search Unknown

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Blocking these usually means the site stops showing up as a source in AI answers.

AI assistants Unknown

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5 of these 7 companies say their assistants may ignore robots.txt.

Bot by bot

We could not read the rules file, so we can't say which bots are allowed.

The rules file (robots.txt)

We could not read robots.txt (HTTP 403). The response was a DataDome challenge page.

Everything else we checked

Front door	Human check The homepage showed our bot, which says who it is, a DataDome challenge page instead of the site (HTTP 403).GET https://zocdoc.com/ as WalledWebBot, from a residential connection in the United States
llms.txt	Skipped: robots.txt request was refused
ai.txt	Skipped: robots.txt request was refused
TDMRep	Skipped: robots.txt request was refused/.well-known/tdmrep.json (W3C Community Group report)
Page tags	Homepage not read.
Anti-bot software	Served through DataDome. The homepage set a DataDome cookie (datadome), which anti-bot software uses.From response headers and cookie names only. A cookie shows the product is there, not how it is set up.
Readable by AI	Homepage not read.Homepage only. Useful for site owners; not part of the result.
Terms of Service	No Terms of Service page found.
Not found	No Content-Signal or Content-Usage lines or licensing signals (RSL License, HTTP 402).

History

35 versions on record since 2 Jan 2023

One square per month, from Internet Archive copies and our own daily checks. Dark: blocked. Gray: some blocked. Light: allowed. Striped: no copy that month.

Feb 2026
Signals Named ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, Claude-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, Claude-User and Perplexity-User explicitly, without changing what they may reach.
Found in the Internet Archive's copies: changed between 27 Jan 2026 and 25 Feb 2026. Evidence: before · after

Show exactly what changed

+ User-agent: ClaudeBot
+ Allow: /
+
+ User-agent: Claude-User
+ Allow: /
+
+ User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
+ Allow: /
+
+ User-agent: Google-Extended
+ Allow: /
+
+ User-agent: PerplexityBot
+ Allow: /
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+ User-agent: Perplexity-User
+ Allow: /
+
User-agent: *
Aug to Nov 2025
Signals Named GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot and ChatGPT-User explicitly, without changing what they may reach.
Found in the Internet Archive's copies: changed between 2 Aug 2025 and 18 Nov 2025. Evidence: before · after

Show exactly what changed
- Sitemap: https://www.zocdoc.com/sitemaps/search-listing-sitemap.xml
- Sitemap: https://www.zocdoc.com/sitemaps/profiles-sitemap.xml
- Sitemap: https://www.zocdoc.com/sitemaps/updated-triple-threats-sitemap.xml
- Sitemap: https://www.zocdoc.com/sitemaps/directory-sitemap.xml
- Sitemap: https://www.zocdoc.com/sitemaps/keyword-listings-sitemap.xml
- Sitemap: https://www.zocdoc.com/sitemaps/practices-sitemap.xml
+ User-agent: GPTBot
+ Allow: /
+
+ User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
+ Allow: /
+
+ User-agent: ChatGPT-User
+ Allow: /
+
User-agent: *
Disallow: /syndication/v1/initialization
+ Disallow: /eventslogging/v1/event
+ Disallow: /eventslogger/v2/logevents
Disallow: /humanrecording
…
Disallow: /about/understanding-your-bill
+ Disallow: /patient/check-in/*
Allow: /
Allow: /about/newpricing
- Allow: /*referrerType=
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