agoda.com: what it tells AI crawlers

On 27 October 2026, agoda.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.

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top 1k (Tranco)
robots.txt
ok (HTTP 200) · https://www.agoda.com/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-26 · sha256 c47b9fe96c3eb0eb… · 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
Googlebotallowsnamed in its own group
Google-Extendedallowsthrough the * group
Applebot-Extendedallowsthrough the * group
CCBotallowsthrough the * group
Bytespiderallowsthrough the * group
Meta-ExternalAgentallowsthrough the * group
Amazonbotallowsthrough the * 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 c47b9fe96c3eb0eb…

#	   (                 (
#	   )\    (  (        )\ )    )
#	((((_)(  )\))(  (   (()/( ( /(
#	 )\ _ )\((_))\  )\   ((_)))(_))
#	 (_)_\(_)(()(_)((_)  _| |((_)_
#	  / _ \ / _` |/ _ \/ _` |/ _` |
#	 /_/ \_\\__, |\___/\__,_|\__,_|
#	        |___/

User-agent: *
Disallow: /*/hotel/all/
Disallow: /account/
Disallow: /*/account/
Disallow: /*/book/
Disallow: /*/thankyou/
Disallow: /book/
Disallow: /thankyou/
Disallow: /bookings/thankyou
Disallow: /*/bookings/thankyou
Disallow: /bookings/processing
Disallow: /*/bookings/processing
Disallow: /bookings/details
Disallow: /*/bookings/details
Disallow: /bookings/payment
Disallow: /*/bookings/payment
Disallow: /flights/results
Disallow: /*/flights/results
Disallow: /activities/detail
Disallow: /activities/detail?*
Disallow: /*/activities/detail?*
Allow: /activities/detail/*/*/*
Allow: /*/activities/detail/*/*/*
Disallow: /transfers
Disallow: /info/china-license.html
Disallow: /*/trips/detail
Disallow: /trips/detail
Disallow: /*/trips$
Disallow: /trips$
Disallow: /*/trips?
Disallow: /trips?
Disallow: /*/home$
Disallow: /home$
Disallow: /*/home?
Disallow: /home?
Allow: /place/*/
Allow: /*-*/place/*/
Disallow: /place/*$
Disallow: /*-*/place/*$
Disallow: /place/*?
Disallow: /*-*/place/*?

User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /*/hotel/all/
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /*/search$
Disallow: /activities/detail
Disallow: /activities/detail?*
Disallow: /*/activities/detail?*
Allow: /activities/detail/*/*/*
Allow: /*/activities/detail/*/*/*
Disallow: /account/
Disallow: /*/account/
Disallow: /*/book/
Disallow: /*/thankyou/
Disallow: /book/
Disallow: /thankyou/
Disallow: /bookings/thankyou
Disallow: /*/bookings/thankyou
Disallow: /bookings/processing
Disallow: /*/bookings/processing
Disallow: /bookings/details
Disallow: /*/bookings/details
Disallow: /bookings/payment
Disallow: /*/bookings/payment
Disallow: /flights/results
Disallow: /*/flights/results
Disallow: /transport/*
Disallow: /partners/partnersearch.aspx
Disallow: /*/partners/partnersearch.aspx
Disallow: /ads.txt
Disallow: /*/trips/detail
Disallow: /trips/detail
Disallow: /*/trips$
Disallow: /trips$
Disallow: /*/trips?
Disallow: /trips?
Disallow: /*/home$
Disallow: /home$
Disallow: /*/home?
Disallow: /home?
Allow: /place/*/
Allow: /*-*/place/*/
Disallow: /place/*$
Disallow: /*-*/place/*$
Disallow: /place/*?
Disallow: /*-*/place/*?

User-agent: AdsBot-Google
Disallow: /*/activities/detail/

User-agent: google-hoteladsverifier
Disallow: /

User-agent: TurnitinBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: NPBot-1/2.0
Disallow: /

User-agent: NPBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: psbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
Allow: /ads.txt

Sitemap: https://www.agoda.com/sitemaps.xml
Sitemap: https://www.agoda.com/fr-fr/sitemaps.xml
Sitemap: https://www.agoda.com/de-de/sitemaps.xml
Sitemap: https://www.agoda.com/it-it/sitemaps.xml
Sitemap: https://www.agoda.com/es-es/sitemaps.xml
Sitemap: https://www.agoda.com/ja-jp/sitemaps.xml
Sitemap: https://www.agoda.com/zh-hk/sitemaps.xml
Sitemap: https://www.agoda.com/zh-cn/sitemaps.xml
Sitemap: https://www.agoda.com/ko-kr/sitemaps.xml
Sitemap: https://www.agoda.com/el-gr/sitemaps.xml
Sitemap: https://www.agoda.com/ru-ru/sitemaps.xml
Sitemap: https://www.agoda.com/pt-pt/sitemaps.xml
Sitemap: https://www.agoda.com/nl-nl/sitemaps.xml
Sitemap: https://www.agoda.com/en-ca/sitemaps.xml
Sitemap: https://www.agoda.com/en-in/sitemaps.xml
Sitemap: https://www.agoda.com/en-gb/sitemaps.xml
Sitemap: https://www.agoda.com/en-za/sitemaps.xml
Sitemap: https://www.agoda.com/en-au/sitemaps.xml
Sitemap: https://www.agoda.com/en-sg/sitemaps.xml
Sitemap: https://www.agoda.com/zh-tw/sitemaps.xml
Sitemap: https://www.agoda.com/en-nz/sitemaps.xml
Sitemap: https://www.agoda.com/th-th/sitemaps.xml
Sitemap: https://www.agoda.com/ms-my/sitemaps.xml
Sitemap: https://www.agoda.com/vi-vn/sitemaps.xml
Sitemap: https://www.agoda.com/sv-se/sitemaps.xml
Sitemap: https://www.agoda.com/id-id/sitemaps.xml
Sitemap: https://www.agoda.com/pl-pl/sitemaps.xml
Sitemap: https://www.agoda.com/nb-no/sitemaps.xml
Sitemap: https://www.agoda.com/da-dk/sitemaps.xml
Sitemap: https://www.agoda.com/fi-fi/sitemaps.xml
Sitemap: https://www.agoda.com/cs-cz/sitemaps.xml
Sitemap: https://www.agoda.com/tr-tr/sitemaps.xml
Sitemap: https://www.agoda.com/ca-es/sitemaps.xml
Sitemap: https://www.agoda.com/hu-hu/sitemaps.xml
Sitemap: https://www.agoda.com/bg-bg/sitemaps.xml
Sitemap: https://www.agoda.com/ro-ro/sitemaps.xml
Sitemap: https://www.agoda.com/sl-si/sitemaps.xml
Sitemap: https://www.agoda.com/he-il/sitemaps.xml
Sitemap: https://www.agoda.com/ar-ae/sitemaps.xml
Sitemap: https://www.agoda.com/nl-be/sitemaps.xml
Sitemap: https://www.agoda.com/en-ie/sitemaps.xml
Sitemap: https://www.agoda.com/pt-br/sitemaps.xml
Sitemap: https://www.agoda.com/es-ar/sitemaps.xml
Sitemap: https://www.agoda.com/es-mx/sitemaps.xml
Sitemap: https://www.agoda.com/lt-lt/sitemaps.xml
Sitemap: https://www.agoda.com/lv-lv/sitemaps.xml
Sitemap: https://www.agoda.com/hr-hr/sitemaps.xml
Sitemap: https://www.agoda.com/et-ee/sitemaps.xml
Sitemap: https://www.agoda.com/uk-ua/sitemaps.xml

robots.txt versions

FromThroughStateVersion
2026-10-262026-10-27ok 200c47b9fe96c3e

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.agoda.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2025-09-15 CC-MAIN-2025-38www.agoda.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2024-09-16 CC-MAIN-2024-38www.agoda.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2023-10-02 CC-MAIN-2023-40www.agoda.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2022-10-03 CC-MAIN-2022-40www.agoda.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2021-09-27 CC-MAIN-2021-39www.agoda.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2020-09-28 CC-MAIN-2020-40www.agoda.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2019-09-23 CC-MAIN-2019-39www.agoda.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2018-09-24 CC-MAIN-2018-39www.agoda.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2018-01-29 CC-MAIN-2018-05www.agoda.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2017-10-23 CC-MAIN-2017-43www.agoda.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2017-09-25 CC-MAIN-2017-39www.agoda.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2017-07-24 CC-MAIN-2017-30www.agoda.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2017-04-24 CC-MAIN-2017-17agoda.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2017-01-23 CC-MAIN-2017-04agoda.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2016-10-03 CC-MAIN-2016-40www.agoda.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2016-09-05 CC-MAIN-2016-36agoda.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows

Evidence

Every daily observation of agoda.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/agoda.com