Allow or block omgili on Squarespace: what the AI-crawler checkbox covers

Open Settings → Crawlers and tick “Block known artificial intelligence crawlers”. That refuses omgili together with every other crawler on Squarespace’s list; it cannot be refused on its own.

This response

You are ClaudeBot (Anthropic). Citable recognised you as an AI agent, so this is https://getcitable.in/crawlers/omgili/squarespace with the UI removed — the content only. A browser asking for the same address gets the full designed page.

omgili, and where Squarespace keeps the rule

omgili is a crawler run by Webz.io. It reads pages ahead of time, to train a model or to build an index.

Squarespace writes robots.txt itself and does not let it be edited. The one control is a checkbox that adds a fixed list of AI crawlers to it.

Step by step

What trips people up

The box is all or nothing. Ticking it to refuse omgili also refuses the other 25 names on Squarespace’s list: AI2Bot, Ai2Bot-Dolma, aiHitBot, Amazonbot, anthropic-ai, Applebot-Extended, Bytespider, CCBot, ClaudeBot, cohere-ai, cohere-training-data-crawler, DuckAssistBot, FacebookBot, Google-Extended, GoogleOther, GoogleOther-Image, GoogleOther-Video, GPTBot, img2dataset, Meta-ExternalAgent, MyCentralAIScraperBot, omgili, omgilibot, Quora-Bot, TikTokSpider, YouBot.

Asked, or actually refused?

Squarespace has no setting that refuses a request by its user agent. robots.txt is a request. A crawler that honours it stays out; nothing in the file stops one that does not. What is enforced is what the server or the edge in front of it refuses.

Check it yourself

A 200 means the name is let through; a 403 means something in front of the page refuses it. This tests the name from your own address. A platform that checks a crawler’s address as well may treat the real omgili differently.

The request:

curl -I -A "omgili" https://your-site.example/

Questions

How do I block omgili on Squarespace?

Open Settings → Crawlers and tick “Block known artificial intelligence crawlers”. That refuses omgili together with every other crawler on Squarespace’s list; it cannot be refused on its own.

How do I allow omgili on Squarespace?

Leave “Block known artificial intelligence crawlers” unticked in Settings → Crawlers. It is unticked by default.

Can Squarespace actually stop omgili, or only ask it?

Squarespace has no setting that refuses a request by its user agent. robots.txt is a request. A crawler that honours it stays out; nothing in the file stops one that does not. What is enforced is what the server or the edge in front of it refuses.

Does a rule for omgili affect Googlebot or my Google rankings?

No. Googlebot goes by its own name and follows its own rules; a group or a firewall rule for omgili does not apply to it.

Checked against Squarespace's own documentation on 1 October 2026

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About Citable

Citable strips the UI from a website for AI agents and serves them only the content.

When an AI agent — ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity or any of the 81 that Citable recognises — opens a page, Citable removes the theme, scripts, navigation and layout and serves only the content: the same facts, at the same URL, on the site's own domain. People and Google still get the full designed page.

How it works: https://getcitable.in/how-it-works · Summary for AI agents: https://getcitable.in/llms.txt


Source: https://getcitable.in/crawlers/omgili/squarespace · Citable · Run the free audit · llms.txt · getcitable@gmail.com