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GhostExplore

An aggregator service for websites powered by ghost.org.
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What is GhostExplore?

GhostExplore is Ghost's content aggregator. An aggregator service for websites powered by ghost.org.

GhostExplore collects and redistributes content from across the web, so pages it can reach may be surfaced to audiences well beyond your own site. Aggregated copies also become part of the corpus AI systems draw on, which makes it worth knowing what GhostExplore takes and how often.

Like any automated client, GhostExplore consumes crawl budget and appears in your server and CDN logs. Reviewing those logs alongside your robots.txt rules helps you keep automated traffic deliberate and easy to reason about.

Want to see every AI bot hitting your site? Promptwatch turns your server and CDN logs into a live view of AI crawler and agent traffic, so you can watch ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and others crawl your pages and connect those visits to real citations and revenue. Learn more in AI crawler logs.

See every AI bot hitting your site

Promptwatch turns your server and CDN logs into a live view of AI crawler and agent traffic. Watch ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and more crawl your pages in real time, see exactly what they take, and connect every crawl to the citations and revenue it drives.

How to handle GhostExplore

Allow GhostExplore if you want your content distributed through the feeds and apps it supplies. Disallow it if you would rather people reach that content only on your own site.

To control GhostExplore, add a rule for its user agent to your robots.txt:

User-agent: GhostExplore
Disallow: /

Ghost does not publish a robots.txt commitment for GhostExplore, so confirm how it behaves by watching your access logs.

GhostExplore is a Cloudflare signed agent: it signs requests with Web Bot Auth and publishes its keys at https://explore.ghost.org/.well-known/http-message-signatures-directory, so you can tell genuine traffic from anything spoofing its user agent.

Examples

  • A publisher checks how often GhostExplore pulls new articles and whether the aggregated version links back to the original.
  • An editor keeps GhostExplore allowed so new posts reach the readers of the apps it supplies.

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