1mg.com: what it tells AI crawlers

On 27 October 2026, 1mg.com's robots.txt allowed all of GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Google-Extended, PerplexityBot and CCBot.

Last verified 2026-10-28 03:59 UTC (daily run of 2026-10-27). Proof for that day.

Panel
top 10k (Tranco)
robots.txt
ok (HTTP 200) · https://www.1mg.com/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-26 · sha256 2341cc5060befd6e… · view as recorded
The * group
allows applies to every agent without its own group

Per AI bot, 2026-10-27

User agentVerdictHow
GPTBotallowsthrough the * group
OAI-SearchBotallowsthrough the * group
ChatGPT-Userallowsthrough the * group
ClaudeBotallowsthrough the * group
Claude-SearchBotallowsthrough the * group
Claude-Userallowsthrough the * group
PerplexityBotallowsthrough the * group
Perplexity-Userallowsthrough the * group
Googlebotallowsthrough the * group
Google-Extendedallowsthrough the * group
Applebot-Extendedallowsthrough the * group
CCBotallowsthrough the * group
Bytespiderallowsthrough the * group
Meta-ExternalAgentblocksnamed in its own group
Amazonbotallowsthrough the * group
facebookexternalhitblocksnamed in its own group

Other signals

Publishes /llms.txtno
Publishes /ai.txtno
Publishes /.well-known/tdmrep.jsonno
Reserves TDM rights (TDMRep file, header or meta)no
Declares Content Signals (robots.txt or header)no
Says ai-train=no in a Content Signalno
Points to an RSL licence (robots.txt License line or Link header)no
Answers with an x402 payment offer (lower bound: only the homepage is probed)no
Answers HTTP 402 Payment Required (lower bound: only the homepage is probed)no
Sends noai / noimageai directivesno
Refused our fetcher (403 / challenge)no

robots.txt as recorded sha256 546a032b62a40328…

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /cart
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /checkout/prescription
Disallow: /checkout/address
Disallow: /checkout/confirm
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /checkDrugInteraction
Disallow: /checkdruginteraction
Disallow: /articles/?p=*
Disallow: /articles/wp-content/plugins/gtranslate/url_addon/gtranslate.php?*
Disallow: /community
Disallow: /trends
Disallow: /drugs-usage
Disallow: /drugs-ailments
Disallow: /psp
Disallow: /vendor-details
Disallow: /corporate/*
Disallow: /hi/diseases/*
Disallow: /ta/drugs/*
Disallow: /te/drugs/*
Disallow: /mr/drugs/*
Disallow: /gu/drugs/*
sitemap: https://www.1mg.com/sitemap.xml
sitemap: https://www.1mg.com/labs/sitemap.xml
sitemap: https://www.1mg.com/doctors/sitemap.xml

User-agent: facebookexternalhit/1.1 (+http://www.facebook.com/externalhit_uatext.php)
Crawl-delay: 1

User-agent: meta-externalagent/1.1 (+https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/crawler)
Crawl-delay: 1

User-agent: facebookexternalhit/1.1
Crawl-delay: 1

User-agent: facebookcatalog/1.0
Crawl-delay: 1

User-agent: meta-externalagent/1.1
Crawl-delay: 1

User-agent: GooglePlusBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ia_archiver
Disallow: /

User-agent: virustotal
Disallow: /

robots.txt versions

FromThroughStateVersion
2026-10-262026-10-27ok 2002341cc5060be

Timeline of changes

DateWhat changed
No changes since the first observation (2026-10-26).

Reconstructed history (Common Crawl)

From Common Crawl's robots.txt captures: what CCBot was served, one crawl per quarter. A separate series from the daily observations above; a 403 here means Common Crawl was refused, not this ledger.

CrawlHostStateGPTBotOAI-SearchBotChatGPT-UserClaudeBotClaude-SearchBotClaude-UserPerplexityBot
2026-09-21 CC-MAIN-2026-39www.1mg.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2025-09-15 CC-MAIN-2025-38www.1mg.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2024-09-16 CC-MAIN-2024-38www.1mg.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2023-10-02 CC-MAIN-2023-40www.1mg.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2022-10-03 CC-MAIN-2022-40www.1mg.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2021-09-27 CC-MAIN-2021-39www.1mg.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2020-09-28 CC-MAIN-2020-40www.1mg.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2019-09-23 CC-MAIN-2019-39www.1mg.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2018-09-24 CC-MAIN-2018-39www.1mg.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2018-04-23 CC-MAIN-2018-17www.1mg.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2018-01-29 CC-MAIN-2018-05www.1mg.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2017-10-23 CC-MAIN-2017-43www.1mg.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2017-09-25 CC-MAIN-2017-39www.1mg.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2017-07-24 CC-MAIN-2017-30www.1mg.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2017-04-24 CC-MAIN-2017-17www.1mg.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2017-01-23 CC-MAIN-2017-041mg.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2016-10-03 CC-MAIN-2016-40www.1mg.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2016-09-05 CC-MAIN-2016-361mg.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows

Evidence

Every daily observation of 1mg.com is a leaf in that day's Merkle tree. Proof of the robots.txt line for 2026-10-27: audit path (JSON), day root and OpenTimestamps proof (complete (bitcoin block 973493)).

API: https://infrarabbit.com/crawlers/api/v1/policy/1mg.com