amazon.co.jp: what it tells AI crawlers
On 26 October 2026, amazon.co.jp's robots.txt fully blocked GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Google-Extended, PerplexityBot and CCBot.
Last verified 2026-10-26 21:13 UTC (daily run of 2026-10-26). Proof for that day.
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- robots.txt
- ok (HTTP 200) · https://www.amazon.co.jp/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-26 · sha256ced68268758aa192…· view as recorded - The * group
- allows applies to every agent without its own group
Per AI bot, 2026-10-26
| User agent | Verdict | How |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| OAI-SearchBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| ChatGPT-User | blocks | named in its own group |
| ClaudeBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Claude-SearchBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Claude-User | blocks | named in its own group |
| PerplexityBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Perplexity-User | blocks | named in its own group |
| Googlebot | allows | through the * group |
| Google-Extended | blocks | named in its own group |
| Applebot-Extended | allows | through the * group |
| CCBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Bytespider | blocks | named in its own group |
| Meta-ExternalAgent | blocks | named in its own group |
| Amazonbot | allows | through the * group |
| AddSearchBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| aiHitBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Andibot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Anomura | blocks | named in its own group |
| atlassian-bot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Brightbot | blocks | named in its own group |
| BuddyBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| ChatGLM-Spider | blocks | named in its own group |
| Claude-Web | blocks | named in its own group |
| Cloudflare-AutoRAG | blocks | named in its own group |
| CloudflareBrowserRenderingCrawler | blocks | named in its own group |
| cohere-ai | blocks | named in its own group |
| cohere-training-data-crawler | blocks | named in its own group |
| Cotoyogi | blocks | named in its own group |
| DeepSeekBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Devin | blocks | named in its own group |
| Diffbot | blocks | named in its own group |
| DuckAssistBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| EchoboxBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Factset_spyderbot | blocks | named in its own group |
| FriendlyCrawler | blocks | named in its own group |
| Gemini-Deep-Research | blocks | named in its own group |
| Google-CloudVertexBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Google-Firebase | blocks | named in its own group |
| Google-NotebookLM | blocks | named in its own group |
| GoogleAgent-Mariner | blocks | named in its own group |
| GoogleOther | blocks | named in its own group |
| GrokBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| iAskBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| iaskspider | blocks | named in its own group |
| ICC-Crawler | blocks | named in its own group |
| ImagesiftBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| imageSpider | blocks | named in its own group |
| ISSCyberRiskCrawler | blocks | named in its own group |
| KlaviyoAIBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| KunatoCrawler | blocks | named in its own group |
| laion-huggingface-processor | blocks | named in its own group |
| LinkupBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Manus-User | blocks | named in its own group |
| meta-externalfetcher | blocks | named in its own group |
| meta-webindexer | blocks | named in its own group |
| MistralAI-User | blocks | named in its own group |
| omgili | blocks | named in its own group |
| PanguBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Panscient | blocks | named in its own group |
| PetalBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| PhindBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Poggio-Citations | blocks | named in its own group |
| QualifiedBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| SBIntuitionsBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Scrapy | blocks | named in its own group |
| SemrushBot-SWA | blocks | named in its own group |
| ShapBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| TavilyBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| TerraCotta | blocks | named in its own group |
| Thinkbot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Timpibot | blocks | named in its own group |
| TwinAgent | blocks | named in its own group |
| VelenPublicWebCrawler | blocks | named in its own group |
| Webzio-Extended | blocks | named in its own group |
| wpbot | blocks | named in its own group |
| WRTNBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| xAI-Grok | blocks | named in its own group |
| YaK | blocks | named in its own group |
| YouBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| ZanistaBot | blocks | named in its own group |
Other signals
| Publishes /llms.txt | no |
| Publishes /ai.txt | no |
| Publishes /.well-known/tdmrep.json | no |
| Reserves TDM rights (TDMRep file, header or meta) | not observed |
| Declares Content Signals (robots.txt or header) | not observed |
| Says ai-train=no in a Content Signal | not observed |
| Points to an RSL licence (robots.txt License line or Link header) | not observed |
| Answers with an x402 payment offer (lower bound: only the homepage is probed) | not observed |
| Answers HTTP 402 Payment Required (lower bound: only the homepage is probed) | not observed |
| Sends noai / noimageai directives | not observed |
| Refused our fetcher (403 / challenge) | no |
robots.txt as recorded sha256 b488d71a3a47f78c…
User-agent: * Disallow: /dp/product-availability/ Disallow: /dp/rate-this-item/ Disallow: /exec/obidos/account-access-login Disallow: /exec/obidos/change-style Disallow: /exec/obidos/di Disallow: /exec/obidos/dt Disallow: /exec/obidos/dt/assoc/handle-buy-box Disallow: /exec/obidos/flex-sign-in Disallow: /exec/obidos/handle-buy-box Disallow: /exec/obidos/refer-a-friend-login Disallow: /exec/obidos/subst/associates/join Disallow: /exec/obidos/subst/marketplace/sell-your-collection.html Disallow: /exec/obidos/subst/marketplace/sell-your-stuff.html Disallow: /exec/obidos/subst/partners/friends/access.html Disallow: /exec/obidos/tg/cm/member/ Disallow: /gp/cart Disallow: /gp/content-form Disallow: /gp/customer-images Disallow: /gp/customer-media/upload Disallow: /gp/customer-reviews/common/du Disallow: /gp/customer-reviews/write-a-review.html Disallow: /gp/flex Disallow: /gp/gfix Disallow: /gp/history Disallow: /gp/item-dispatch Disallow: /gp/legacy-handle-buy-box.html Disallow: /gp/reader Disallow: /gp/registry/wishlist/*/reserve Disallow: /gp/richpub/listmania/createpipeline Disallow: /gp/music/clipserve Disallow: /gp/recsradio Disallow: /gp/sign-in Disallow: /gp/slides/make-money Disallow: /gp/structured-ratings/actions/get-experience.html Disallow: /gp/twitter/ Disallow: /gp/vote Disallow: /gp/voting/ Disallow: /gp/yourstore Disallow: /ap/signin Disallow: /gp/registry/search.html Disallow: /gp/orc/rml/ Disallow: /gp/dmusic/mp3/player Disallow: /gp/entity-alert/external Disallow: /gp/customer-reviews/dynamic/sims-box Disallow: /review/dynamic/sims-box Disallow: /gp/redirect.html Disallow: /gp/customer-media/actions/delete/ Disallow: /gp/customer-media/actions/edit-caption/ Disallow: /gp/dmusic/ Disallow: /gp/customer-media/product-gallery/B007HCCOD0 Disallow: /gp/help/customer/display.html?*nodeId=200534000 Disallow: /gp/help/customer/display.html?*nodeId=200145650 Disallow: /gp/feature.html?*docId=1000632623 Disallow: /gp/aag Disallow: /gp/socialmedia/giveaways Disallow: /gp/aw/so.html Disallow: /gp/aw/sp.html?*t=returns Disallow: /gp/pdp/profile/ Disallow: /gp/product/product-availability Disallow: /gp/offer-listing Disallow: /dp/twister-update/ Disallow: /dp/e-mail-friend/ Disallow: /gp/registry/wishlist/ Disallow: /gp/switch-language Disallow: /wishlist/ Allow: /wishlist/universal Allow: /wishlist/vendor-button Allow: /wishlist/get-button Disallow: /gp/wishlist/ Allow: /gp/wishlist/universal Allow: /gp/wishlist/vendor-button Allow: /gp/wishlist/ipad-install Disallow: /registry/wishlist/ Disallow: /local/ajax/ Disallow: /gp/rate-it Disallow: /gp/rentallist Disallow: /gp/video/dvd-rental/settings Disallow: /gp/rl/settings Disallow: /gp/video/settings Disallow: /gp/video/watchlist Disallow: /gp/video/library Disallow: /o/di Disallow: /o/dt User-agent: EtaoSpider Disallow: /
robots.txt versions
| From | Through | State | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-26 | 2026-10-27 | ok 200 | ced68268758a |
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.amazon.co.jp | ok view | blocks | blocks | unknown | blocks | blocks | unknown | blocks |
| 2024-09-16 CC-MAIN-2024-38 | www.amazon.co.jp | ok view | blocks | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2021-09-27 CC-MAIN-2021-39 | www.amazon.co.jp | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2020-09-28 CC-MAIN-2020-40 | www.amazon.co.jp | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2019-09-23 CC-MAIN-2019-39 | www.amazon.co.jp | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2018-09-24 CC-MAIN-2018-39 | www.amazon.co.jp | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-09-25 CC-MAIN-2017-39 | www.amazon.co.jp | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2016-09-05 CC-MAIN-2016-36 | amazon.co.jp | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
Evidence
Every daily observation of amazon.co.jp is a leaf in that day's Merkle tree. Proof of the robots.txt line for 2026-10-26: audit path (JSON), day root and OpenTimestamps proof (complete (bitcoin block 973294)).
API: https://infrarabbit.com/crawlers/api/v1/policy/amazon.co.jp