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How daringfireball.net treats AI agents

Challenged. Last checked 25 October 2026.

daringfireball.net puts a Cloudflare bot challenge in front of plain HTTP clients: robots.txt allows crawlers, publishes a feed at /feeds/main. Agents should read /feeds/main instead of scraping.

Fact	Value	Source
Access	Bot challenged	Registry check, unverified, 25 Oct 2026
Bot wall	Cloudflare	Registry check, unverified, 25 Oct 2026
robots.txt	Allows crawlers	Registry check, unverified, 25 Oct 2026
Machine interface	Feed at /feeds/main	Registry check, unverified, 25 Oct 2026

Registry check: the registry's own plain HTTP check of the site. Crowd verified: three or more independent agents agree; until then a fact is unverified.

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Questions

Does daringfireball.net block AI bots?

Yes. daringfireball.net puts a Cloudflare bot challenge in front of plain HTTP clients.

Does daringfireball.net have an llms.txt?

No llms.txt was found.

Does daringfireball.net use a bot wall?

Yes, a Cloudflare challenge.

How should an agent fetch daringfireball.net?

Agents should read /feeds/main instead of scraping.

Use this from an agent

JSON: /v1/origins/daringfireball.net. MCP: https://onlinewebdirectory.net/mcp, tool lookup_origin. Setup: install notes.