adobe.com: what it tells AI crawlers
On 27 October 2026, adobe.com's robots.txt allowed all of GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Google-Extended, PerplexityBot and CCBot; it also published llms.txt.
Last verified 2026-10-28 03:59 UTC (daily run of 2026-10-27). Proof for that day.
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- top 1k (Tranco)
- robots.txt
- ok (HTTP 200) · https://www.adobe.com/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-26 · sha25641081faa0fd32377…· view as recorded - The * group
- allows applies to every agent without its own group
Per AI bot, 2026-10-27
| User agent | Verdict | How |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | allows | through the * group |
| OAI-SearchBot | allows | through the * group |
| ChatGPT-User | allows | through the * group |
| ClaudeBot | allows | through the * group |
| Claude-SearchBot | allows | through the * group |
| Claude-User | allows | through the * group |
| PerplexityBot | allows | through the * group |
| Perplexity-User | allows | through the * group |
| Googlebot | allows | named in its own group |
| Google-Extended | allows | through the * group |
| Applebot-Extended | allows | through the * group |
| CCBot | allows | through the * group |
| Bytespider | allows | through the * group |
| Meta-ExternalAgent | allows | through the * group |
| Amazonbot | allows | through the * group |
Other signals
| Publishes /llms.txt | yes |
| Publishes /ai.txt | no |
| Publishes /.well-known/tdmrep.json | no |
| Reserves TDM rights (TDMRep file, header or meta) | no |
| Declares Content Signals (robots.txt or header) | no |
| Says ai-train=no in a Content Signal | no |
| 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 directives | no |
| Refused our fetcher (403 / challenge) | no |
llms.txt: "Adobe Tools", 10,499 bytes, 46 links.
robots.txt as recorded sha256 85efc4d7cb97d61f…
# The use of robots or other automated means to access the Adobe site # without the express permission of Adobe is strictly prohibited. # Notwithstanding the foregoing, Adobe may permit automated access to # access certain Adobe pages but solely for the limited purpose of # including content in publicly available search engines. Any other # use of robots or failure to obey the robots exclusion standards set # forth at http://www.robotstxt.org/ is strictly prohibited. # Details about Googlebot available at: http://www.google.com/bot.html # The Google search engine can see everything User-agent: gsa-crawler-www Allow: /assets/globalnav/v1.1.4/css/globalnav.css Allow: /assets/globalnav/v1.1.4/*/globalnav.js Allow: /au/special/symposium Allow: /sea/special/symposium Allow: /*special/products/marketing-cloud/*.css$ Allow: /*special/products/marketing-cloud/*.png$ Allow: /*special/products/marketing-cloud/*.js$ Allow: /www.adobe.com/special/ri/prod/assets/*.css$ Allow: /www.adobe.com/special/ri/prod/assets/*.jpg$ Allow: /www.adobe.com/special/ri/prod/assets/*.js$ Allow: /www.adobe.com/special/ri/prod/assets/*.png$ Disallow: /assets/globalnav/ Disallow: /*creativesuite/bridge Disallow: /cfusion/gpr/ Disallow: /cfusion/search/ Disallow: /cfusion/partnerportal/ Disallow: /search Disallow: /cgi-local/ Disallow: /de/products/index-notabs.html Disallow: /de/products/index-tabs.html Disallow: /devnet-archive/ Disallow: /devnet/archive Disallow: /*devnet/tagsearch Disallow: /emea/eemeachannel/ Disallow: /events/ciocouncil/ Disallow: /events/executivecouncil/ Disallow: /google_indexing/ Disallow: /*.html_ Disallow: /licensing/distribution/strategies/ Disallow: /*limited/ Disallow: /livedocs/ Disallow: /*Ljava.lang.Object* Disallow: /products/acrobat/readstep2.html;JMICROSITE2SESSION* Disallow: /*products/flashplayer/distribution3.html Disallow: /*products/flashplayer/distribution4.html Disallow: /*special/ Disallow: /*.sql$ Disallow: /*supportservice/ Disallow: /*.translate.html Disallow: /*products/adobeconnect/enterprise/trial.html Disallow: /*products/adobeconnect/enterprise/trial-check.html Disallow: /*products/adobeconnect/enterprise/trial-thankyou.html Disallow: /*products/adobeconnect/enterprise/trial-error.html Disallow: /*products/photoshop/selector Disallow: /*unsubscribe.html Disallow: /content/dam/acom/en/marketing-cloud/offers/pdf Disallow: /content/dotcom/*.html$ Disallow: /content/dam/www/us/en/offer/digital-trends-2020/digital-trends-2020-full-report.pdf Disallow: /plans-fragments/ # The Omniture search engine can see everything User-agent: Atomz/1.0 Disallow: /devnet-archive/ Disallow: /devnet/archive Disallow: /events/ciocouncil/ Disallow: /events/executivecouncil/ Disallow: /licensing/distribution/strategies/ Disallow: /*limited/ Disallow: /livedocs/ Disallow: /products/flashplayer/distribution3.html Disallow: /products/flashplayer/distribution4.html Disallow: /*special/ Disallow: /*.sql$ Disallow: /*supportservice/ User-agent: * Allow: /assets/globalnav/v1.1.4/css/globalnav.css Allow: /assets/globalnav/v1.1.4/*globalnav.js Allow: /au/special/symposium Allow: /sea/special/symposium Allow: /*special/products/marketing-cloud/*.css$ Allow: /*special/products/marketing-cloud/*.js$ Allow: /*special/products/marketing-cloud/*.png$ Allow: /www.adobe.com/special/ri/prod/assets/*.css$ Allow: /www.adobe.com/special/ri/prod/assets/*.jpg$ Allow: /www.adobe.com/special/ri/prod/assets/*.js$ Allow: /www.adobe.com/special/ri/prod/assets/*.png$ Disallow: /assets/globalnav/ Disallow: /*creativesuite/bridge Disallow: /cfusion/gpr/ Disallow: /cfusion/search/ Disallow: /cfusion/partnerportal/ Disallow: /search Disallow: /cgi-local/ Disallow: /de/products/index-notabs.html Disallow: /de/products/index-tabs.html Disallow: /devnet-archive/ Disallow: /devnet/archive Disallow: /*devnet/tagsearch Disallow: /emea/eemeachannel/ Disallow: /events/ciocouncil/ Disallow: /events/executivecouncil/ Disallow: /google_indexing/ Disallow: /*.html_ Disallow: /licensing/distribution/strategies/ Disallow: /*limited/ Disallow: /livedocs/ Disallow: /*Ljava.lang.Object* Disallow: /products/acrobat/readstep2.html;JMICROSITE2SESSION* Disallow: /*products/flashplayer/distribution3.html Disallow: /*products/flashplayer/distribution4.html Disallow: /*special/ Disallow: /*.sql$ Disallow: /*supportservice/ Disallow: /*.translate.html Disallow: /*products/adobeconnect/enterprise/trial.html Disallow: /*products/adobeconnect/enterprise/trial-check.html Disallow: /*products/adobeconnect/enterprise/trial-thankyou.html Disallow: /*products/adobeconnect/enterprise/trial-error.html Disallow: /*products/photoshop/selector Disallow: /*unsubscribe.html Disallow: /content/dam/acom/en/marketing-cloud/offers/pdf Disallow: /content/dotcom/*.html$ Disallow: /plans-fragments/ Disallow: /content/dam/www/us/en/offer/pdf/digital-trends-2020-in-financial-services.pdf Disallow: /content/dam/www/us/en/offer/pdf/digital-trends-2020-in-retail.pdf Disallow: /content/dam/www/us/en/offer/pdf/digital-trends-2020-in-media-and-entertainment.pdf Disallow: /content/dam/www/us/en/offer/pdf/digital-trends-2020-in-travel-and-hospitality.pdf Disallow: /content/dam/www/us/en/offer/pdf/digital-trends-2020-in-telecommunications.pdf Disallow: /content/dam/www/us/en/offer/pdf/digital-trends-2020-in-advertising.pdf Disallow: /content/dam/www/us/en/offer/pdf/digital-trends-2020-in-high-tech.pdf Disallow: /content/dam/www/us/en/offer/pdf/digital-trends-2020-in-IT.pdf User-agent: AdsBot-Google Allow: / User-agent: AdsBot-Google-Mobile Allow: / User-agent: SearchmetricsBot Disallow: / # XML sitemaps updates per HS01042020 Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/cc-creativecloud.index.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/cc-product.index.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/Devnet_sitemap.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/Adobe-non-cloud033120.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/CC-Beagle-all2.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/aec-advertising-2-21-2020.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/aec-analytics-2-21-2020.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/aec-experience-cloud-2-21-2020.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/aec-marketing-2-21-2020.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/summit-2020.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/ppbu-product-sitemap.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/PS-online-index.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/dc-online-sitemap.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/en-sitemap.xml # Hreflang sitemap Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/hreflang_22082017_photoshop-family-s.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/hreflang_22082017_plans-s.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/hreflang-sitemap-catalog.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/hreflang-sitemap-CC-apps-services1-s.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/hreflang-sitemap-CC-apps-services1-s.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/hreflang-sitemap-CC-apps-services3-s.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/hreflang-sitemap-CC-apps-services4-s.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/hreflang-sitemap-CC-apps-services5-s.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/hreflang-sitemap-CC-apps-services6-s.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/hreflang_aec_acom.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/hreflang_aec_advertising.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/hreflang_aec_advertsing_cloud.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/hreflang_aec_analytics.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/hreflang_aec_articles.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/hreflang_aec_audience_manager.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/hreflang_aec_campaign.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/hreflang_aec_campaign_marketing_cloud.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/hreflang_aec_commerce.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/hreflang_aec_customer_experience_management.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/hreflang_aec_customer_experience_personalization.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/hreflang_aec_data_analytics_cloud.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/hreflang_aec_experience_manager.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/hreflang_aec_experience_manager_assets.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/hreflang_aec_experience_manager_forms.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/hreflang_aec_experience_manager_marketing_cloud.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/hreflang_aec_experience_manager_sites.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/hreflang_aec_industry.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/hreflang_aec_marketo.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/hreflang_aec_primetime.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/hreflang_aec_roi.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/hreflang_aec_sensei.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/hreflang_aec_service_support.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/hreflang_aec_social_integration.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/hreflang_aec_target.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/hreflang_aec_target_marketing_cloud.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/hreflang_aec_topics.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/hreflang-sitemap-homepage-s.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/hreflang-sitemap-reselllers-s.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/hreflang-sitemap-XD-LR-Dimension-s.xml # Hreflang sitemap updates per SH09222020 Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/hreflang-dc-online.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/hreflang-dc-online-compress.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/hreflang-dc-online-convert-pdf.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/hreflang-dc-online-pdf-converter.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/hreflang-dc-online-signature.xml # PSFl individual sitemaps HS07082020 Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/photoshop.sitemap.cc.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/ie/photoshop.sitemap.cc.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/tw/photoshop.sitemap.cc.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/hk_zh/photoshop.sitemap.cc.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/ua/photoshop.sitemap.cc.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/tr/photoshop.sitemap.cc.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/se/photoshop.sitemap.cc.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/si/photoshop.sitemap.cc.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/sk/photoshop.sitemap.cc.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/ru/photoshop.sitemap.cc.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/ro/photoshop.sitemap.cc.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/pt/photoshop.sitemap.cc.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/br/photoshop.sitemap.cc.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/pl/photoshop.sitemap.cc.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/nl/photoshop.sitemap.cc.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/be_nl/photoshop.sitemap.cc.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/no/photoshop.sitemap.cc.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/lv/photoshop.sitemap.cc.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/lt/photoshop.sitemap.cc.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/kr/photoshop.sitemap.cc.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/it/photoshop.sitemap.cc.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/ch_it/photoshop.sitemap.cc.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/hu/photoshop.sitemap.cc.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/il_he/photoshop.sitemap.cc.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/lu_fr/photoshop.sitemap.cc.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/fr/photoshop.sitemap.cc.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/ch_fr/photoshop.sitemap.cc.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/ca_fr/photoshop.sitemap.cc.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/be_fr/photoshop.sitemap.cc.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/fi/photoshop.sitemap.cc.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/ee/photoshop.sitemap.cc.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/la/photoshop.sitemap.cc.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/mx/photoshop.sitemap.cc.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/es/photoshop.sitemap.cc.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/africa/photoshop.sitemap.cc.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/sea/photoshop.sitemap.cc.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/photoshop.sitemap.cc.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/mena_en/photoshop.sitemap.cc.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/nz/photoshop.sitemap.cc.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/mt/photoshop.sitemap.cc.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/lu_en/photoshop.sitemap.cc.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/in/photoshop.sitemap.cc.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/il_en/photoshop.sitemap.cc.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/hk_en/photoshop.sitemap.cc.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/gr_en/photoshop.sitemap.cc.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/uk/photoshop.sitemap.cc.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/cy_en/photoshop.sitemap.cc.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/ca/photoshop.sitemap.cc.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/be_en/photoshop.sitemap.cc.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/au/photoshop.sitemap.cc.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/lu_de/photoshop.sitemap.cc.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/de/photoshop.sitemap.cc.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/ch_de/photoshop.sitemap.cc.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/at/photoshop.sitemap.cc.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/dk/photoshop.sitemap.cc.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/cz/photoshop.sitemap.cc.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/bg/photoshop.sitemap.cc.xml Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/mena_ar/photoshop.sitemap.cc.xml
robots.txt versions
| From | Through | State | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-26 | 2026-10-27 | ok 200 | 41081faa0fd3 |
Timeline of changes
| Date | What 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.
| Crawl | Host | State | GPTBot | OAI-SearchBot | ChatGPT-User | ClaudeBot | Claude-SearchBot | Claude-User | PerplexityBot |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-21 CC-MAIN-2026-39 | www.adobe.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2025-09-15 CC-MAIN-2025-38 | www.adobe.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2024-09-16 CC-MAIN-2024-38 | www.adobe.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2023-10-02 CC-MAIN-2023-40 | www.adobe.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2022-10-03 CC-MAIN-2022-40 | www.adobe.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2021-09-27 CC-MAIN-2021-39 | www.adobe.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2020-09-28 CC-MAIN-2020-40 | www.adobe.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2019-09-23 CC-MAIN-2019-39 | www.adobe.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2018-09-24 CC-MAIN-2018-39 | www.adobe.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2018-01-29 CC-MAIN-2018-05 | www.adobe.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-10-23 CC-MAIN-2017-43 | www.adobe.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-09-25 CC-MAIN-2017-39 | www.adobe.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-07-24 CC-MAIN-2017-30 | www.adobe.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-04-24 CC-MAIN-2017-17 | adobe.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-01-23 CC-MAIN-2017-04 | adobe.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2016-10-03 CC-MAIN-2016-40 | adobe.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2016-09-05 CC-MAIN-2016-36 | adobe.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
Evidence
Every daily observation of adobe.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/adobe.com