Does Hostelworld allow AI agents?

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Bans automated means to 'access, monitor… or otherwise exploit' content for purposes outside its terms.

Our testing

Report-only: we cite public reports and never test agents here

What the site's own pages say

Each line links to the page it comes from. Lines marked as crawler rules come from the site's robots.txt and tell automated crawlers what not to fetch; they are not legal terms.

• User-agent: *
  Disallow: /app/*
  Disallow: /api/*
  Disallow: /microsite/*

  Official source Source as of 2026-10-20 Crawler rule in the site's robots.txt: it tells automated crawlers what not to fetch. It is not a legal ban.

• Property booking path disallowed

  Official source Source as of 2026-10-20 Crawler rule in the site's robots.txt: it tells automated crawlers what not to fetch. It is not a legal ban.

• Hostel detail URLs with date or group params blocked (rate/availability query crawling disallowed)

  Official source Source as of 2026-10-20 Crawler rule in the site's robots.txt: it tells automated crawlers what not to fetch. It is not a legal ban.

• Not stated on hostelworld.com/robots.txt as of 2026-10-20

  Official source Source as of 2026-10-20 Crawler rule in the site's robots.txt: it tells automated crawlers what not to fetch. It is not a legal ban.

Sources

• Hostelworld Terms and Conditions 2021-09-30