bandcamp.com: what it tells AI crawlers

On 27 October 2026, bandcamp.com's robots.txt fully blocked GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended and CCBot.

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

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robots.txt

ok (HTTP 200) · https://bandcamp.com/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-26 · sha256 0adec2c36c009bfb… · view as recorded

The * group

allows applies to every agent without its own group

Per AI bot, 2026-10-27

Other signals

robots.txt as recorded sha256 5fe84329f96f5752…

User-agent: *
Disallow: /no_js
Disallow: /download_tralbum
Disallow: /login
Disallow: /signup
Disallow: /profile
Disallow: /tools
Disallow: /checkout
Disallow: /download_check
Disallow: /yum
Disallow: /download
Disallow: /purchases
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /corpbanner/
Disallow: /stream
Disallow: /api/
# pattern matching known to work only with Google and Yahoo
Disallow: /*_cb$
# only allow bots to browse the root tag pages.  No arguments allowed.
Disallow: /tag/*=
# any point indexing search results? I doubt it
Disallow: /search

# badly-behaving bots
User-agent: NextGenSearchBot
Disallow: /

# unwanted bots
User-agent: EdisterBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Ezooms
Disallow: /

User-agent: SWEBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: discobot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: grapeshot
Disallow: /

User-agent: BUbiNG
Disallow: /

robots.txt versions

Timeline of changes

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.

Evidence

Every daily observation of bandcamp.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/bandcamp.com