# Usage License Report for apnews.com

**Verdict: Mixed** · confidence 85% · checked 6/24/2026
License ID `01KVVZD71P3Z2PNPMQJF4HPK3J` · https://aiscrapesafe.opencontrols.ai/l/01KVVZD71P3Z2PNPMQJF4HPK3J

What this site’s own signals say you may and may not do with its content. Plain language, not legal advice.

> This verdict is marked **needs review**: the signals didn’t agree strongly enough to be certain. Confirm before you rely on it.

## What you can do

- Scrape or crawl these pages.

## What you can’t do without permission

- Run text and data mining over the content.
- Use the content to train AI models.
- Use the content with AI at run time (summarizing, search, RAG).
- Create derivative works from the content.
- Redistribute the content.
- Transform or reformat the content.

## Ask first

- Tag or annotate the content.

_No signal spoke to these. Ask, don’t assume._

## Evidence by signal

### robots.txt — Restricted
Source: https://apnews.com/robots.txt · Parser: robots-parser@1.0.0 · Checked: 6/24/2026

- “GPTBot, CCBot, anthropic-ai, ClaudeBot, Claude-Web, PerplexityBot, Applebot-Extended, Amazonbot, cohere-ai, Timpibot” — 10 AI agent(s) disallowed for /

### Terms of Service — Restricted
Source: https://apnews.com/termsofservice · Parser: tos-parser@1.0.0 · Checked: 6/24/2026

- “All Rights Reserved” — copyright reservation (all-rights-reserved / no-reproduction)

### Copyright / license — Unknown
Source: https://apnews.com/termsofservice · Parser: copyright_license-parser@0.1.0 · Checked: 6/24/2026

- No evidence — this signal returned unknown. Unknown is never read as allowed.

### Technical barriers — Allowed
Source: https://apnews.com/ · Parser: technical-parser@1.0.0 · Checked: 6/24/2026

- No evidence — this signal returned unknown. Unknown is never read as allowed.

### API / access points — Allowed
Source: https://apnews.com/ · Parser: api-access-parser@1.0.0 · Checked: 6/24/2026

- “official API / developer endpoint detected” — API present (informational)

## The fine print

- Read for **US, commercial use**. Change the frame and the verdict can change.
- “Needs review” means a human should confirm before relying on the call.
- This usage license reflects machine-readable and expressed restrictions detected on the source at check time. It is not legal advice; actual rights depend on your jurisdiction and intended use.

Generated 2026-06-26 by AIScrapeSafe · aiscrapesafe.opencontrols.ai

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