bbc.co.uk: what it tells AI crawlers
On 27 October 2026, bbc.co.uk's robots.txt fully blocked GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, 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 1k (Tranco)
- robots.txt
- ok (HTTP 200) · https://www.bbc.co.uk/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-26 · sha2561c16746a8d02e677…· 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 | 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 | allows | through the * group |
| Claude-User | allows | through the * 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 | blocks | named in its own group |
| CCBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Bytespider | blocks | named in its own group |
| Meta-ExternalAgent | blocks | named in its own group |
| Amazonbot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Amzn-SearchBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Amzn-User | blocks | named in its own group |
| anthropic-ai | blocks | named in its own group |
| ApifyBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| ApifyWebsiteContentCrawler | blocks | named in its own group |
| Brightbot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Claude-Web | blocks | named in its own group |
| CloudflareBrowserRenderingCrawler | blocks | named in its own group |
| cohere-ai | blocks | named in its own group |
| Diffbot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Diffbot-User | blocks | named in its own group |
| ExaBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| FirecrawlAgent | blocks | named in its own group |
| Google-CloudVertexBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| omgili | blocks | named in its own group |
| omgilibot | blocks | named in its own group |
| PetalBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Scrapy | blocks | named in its own group |
| ShapBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| TavilyBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| YandexAdditional | blocks | named in its own group |
| YandexAdditionalBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| YouBot | 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) | 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 |
robots.txt as recorded sha256 8013b46102f7b100…
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Disallow: /cgi-perl Disallow: /cgi-perlx Disallow: /cgi-store Disallow: /corporate2/bbctrust/search Disallow: /corporate2/insidethebbc/search Disallow: /corporate2/mediacentre/proginfo/search Disallow: /corporate2/mediacentre/search Disallow: /corporate2/safety/search Disallow: /cwynion/ Disallow: /eastenders/updates/ Disallow: /education/bitesize Disallow: /education/dev Disallow: /education/images Disallow: /education/nav Disallow: /education/navigation Disallow: /education/ximages Disallow: /eoltools/ Disallow: /films/gateways Disallow: /frameworks/fig/ Disallow: /furniture Disallow: /gahuza/search Disallow: /h2g2/servers/narthur8 Disallow: /hausa/search Disallow: /hindi/search Disallow: /history/domesday/search Disallow: /includes/ Disallow: /indonesia/search Disallow: /kyrgyz/search Disallow: /learningzone/clips/search Disallow: /mediacentre/proginfo/search Disallow: /mediacentre/search Disallow: /mediaselector Disallow: /messageboards/ Disallow: /modules/musicnav/language/ Disallow: /mundo/search Disallow: /music/language/ Disallow: /music/releases/ Disallow: /nav/ Disallow: /navigation Disallow: /nepali/search Disallow: /news/uk-30888157 Disallow: /news/uk-england-suffolk-20780472 Disallow: /news/0 Disallow: /news/videos/ Disallow: /partners/ Disallow: /pashto/search Disallow: /persian/search Disallow: /portuguese/search Disallow: /pressoffice/plots/ Disallow: /print/ Disallow: /programmes/articles/1jJwRxT3X9s0QlBsCMhvv7D/2013-fundraising-packs Disallow: /programmes/articles/1nSkm7VR3fypxqB16dDtVwk/how-to-get-sponsored Disallow: /programmes/articles/1RjY5ZcmdvRKPvbS662Jv9C/welsh-downloads-2013 Disallow: /programmes/articles/25h23bXRXFlGdVQ86hNFVkT/secondary-schools-fundraising Disallow: /programmes/articles/2S6fTlHnqvdHGswDJ9yLs6r/early-years-fundraising Disallow: /programmes/articles/35Cb1BsKBWZNfhVDp07K1y1/students Disallow: /programmes/articles/4P9FhkRwqvYHVXmX6c13Bfd/downloads-page Disallow: 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/programmes/profiles/33x1x5jLwh1MbhpFXhlxq37/posters-stickers-and-games Disallow: /programmes/profiles/3yvcq7cxMmNLCzSzDCWsPyM/primary-school-fundraising-ideas Disallow: /programmes/profiles/49qkZq0Pmmh4flWgYSPhgPj/fundraising-ideas-at-work Disallow: /programmes/profiles/49QnjFZ5T6f6sdQY399HNzf/primary-teacher-resources Disallow: /programmes/profiles/4KFFdqWQZ9lSPl1qHnRPbNV/be-a-hero Disallow: /programmes/profiles/4yn6kWyMJZLgPZj4100SSkh/early-years-teacher-resources Disallow: /programmes/profiles/54k8kVKM9gTzVL4zvDJ1BzN/secondary-teacher-resources Disallow: /programmes/profiles/581RcyV6nP3Jtxk9Vcy9Hnq/downloads-for-early-years Disallow: /programmes/profiles/5wdxQwnlLHJNY9y2Nxm1RkQ/fundraising-ideas Disallow: /programmes/profiles/cGJ1RZ5pHG0Jl65YSN0YYc/downloads-for-secondary-schools Disallow: /programmes/profiles/qWq8hB1135cdgj2cqNXyWB/early-years-fundraising-ideas Disallow: /radio/aod/ Disallow: /radio/aod$ Disallow: /radio/player/ Disallow: /radio/player$ Disallow: /russian/search Disallow: /safety/search Disallow: /schools/typing/about/ Disallow: /schools/typing/flash/ Disallow: /schools/typing/generic/ Disallow: /schools/typing/levels/ Disallow: /search/ Disallow: /search$ Disallow: /sinhala/search Disallow: /skillswise/quickfind/search Disallow: /somali/search Disallow: /sounds/player/ Disallow: /sounds/player$ Disallow: /survey/ Disallow: /swahili/search Disallow: /syndication/html/ Disallow: /tamil/search Disallow: /turkce/search Disallow: /ukchina/simp/search Disallow: /ukchina/trad/search Disallow: /ukrainian/search Disallow: /urdu/search Disallow: /userinfo/ Disallow: /userinfo Disallow: /uzbek/search Disallow: /vietnamese/search Disallow: /weather/broadband/ Disallow: /weather/search Disallow: /worldservice/images/ Disallow: /worldservice/psims/ Disallow: /worldservice/ssi/ Disallow: /worldservice/survey/ Disallow: /zhongwen/simp/search Disallow: /zhongwen/trad/search Disallow: /indepthtoolkit/smallprox$ Disallow: /indepthtoolkit/smallprox/ Disallow: /sounds/search$ Disallow: /sounds/search/ Disallow: /sounds/search? 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Disallow: /bbctrust/search Disallow: /bengali/search Disallow: /burmese/search Disallow: /cbbc/search Disallow: /cbeebies/search Disallow: /cgi-bin Disallow: /cgi-perl Disallow: /cgi-perlx Disallow: /cgi-store Disallow: /corporate2/bbctrust/search Disallow: /corporate2/insidethebbc/search Disallow: /corporate2/mediacentre/proginfo/search Disallow: /corporate2/mediacentre/search Disallow: /corporate2/safety/search Disallow: /cwynion/ Disallow: /eastenders/updates/ Disallow: /education/bitesize Disallow: /education/dev Disallow: /education/images Disallow: /education/nav Disallow: /education/navigation Disallow: /education/ximages Disallow: /eoltools/ Disallow: /films/gateways Disallow: /food/binder/ Disallow: /food/recipes/search*?* Disallow: /frameworks/fig/ Disallow: /furniture Disallow: /gahuza/search Disallow: /h2g2/servers/narthur8 Disallow: /hausa/search Disallow: /hindi/search Disallow: /history/domesday/search Disallow: /includes/ Disallow: /indonesia/search Disallow: /kyrgyz/search Disallow: /learningzone/clips/search Disallow: /mediacentre/proginfo/search Disallow: /mediacentre/search Disallow: /mediaselector Disallow: /messageboards/ Disallow: /modules/musicnav/language/ Disallow: /mundo/search Disallow: /music/language/* Disallow: /music/releases/ Disallow: /nav/ Disallow: /navigation Disallow: /nepali/search Disallow: /news/uk-30888157 Disallow: /news/uk-england-suffolk-20780472 Disallow: /news/0 Disallow: /news/videos/* Disallow: /partners/ Disallow: /pashto/search Disallow: /persian/search Disallow: /portuguese/search Disallow: /pressoffice/plots/ Disallow: /print/ Disallow: /programmes/articles/1jJwRxT3X9s0QlBsCMhvv7D/2013-fundraising-packs Disallow: /programmes/articles/1nSkm7VR3fypxqB16dDtVwk/how-to-get-sponsored Disallow: /programmes/articles/1RjY5ZcmdvRKPvbS662Jv9C/welsh-downloads-2013 Disallow: /programmes/articles/25h23bXRXFlGdVQ86hNFVkT/secondary-schools-fundraising Disallow: /programmes/articles/2S6fTlHnqvdHGswDJ9yLs6r/early-years-fundraising Disallow: /programmes/articles/35Cb1BsKBWZNfhVDp07K1y1/students Disallow: /programmes/articles/4P9FhkRwqvYHVXmX6c13Bfd/downloads-page Disallow: /programmes/articles/4qd5GpykkdkGZtYrRR5h073/ideas-and-downloads Disallow: /programmes/articles/4zNrFLZXqfGcBFRHzLnkxqw/primary-schools-fundraising Disallow: /programmes/articles/4zplPWW97l5Yk1BhTY4p3rz/tell-us-what-youre-doing Disallow: /programmes/articles/5kgXgM40wp1JM9lSB1f18Yd/fundraising Disallow: /programmes/articles/91J9cY9hzMLrsCmM7tX113/cerries-jump-up-and-dance-competition Disallow: /programmes/articles/psvxkB6QDMK63pgHmP5RJF/who-you-help Disallow: /programmes/articles/RRWbSk1mCZngypVngyZYJ0/get-your-money-to-us Disallow: /programmes/articles/v8qTSbm89w6DnfgxFL5GBk/fundraising-at-school Disallow: /programmes/articles/ZY66x6RD4jg5kqv8t7vn56/lets-go-shopping Disallow: /programmes/b008dk4b Disallow: /programmes/profiles/1YyY0F36ppV3DmnSkNTrRxZ/downloads-for-primary-schools Disallow: /programmes/profiles/2dgMD54k88Lz77lYcy7mRhc/secondary-school-fundraising-ideas Disallow: /programmes/profiles/2x87wV7KW01sgY0dl7qBnT6/recipes Disallow: /programmes/profiles/33x1x5jLwh1MbhpFXhlxq37/posters-stickers-and-games Disallow: /programmes/profiles/3yvcq7cxMmNLCzSzDCWsPyM/primary-school-fundraising-ideas Disallow: /programmes/profiles/49qkZq0Pmmh4flWgYSPhgPj/fundraising-ideas-at-work Disallow: /programmes/profiles/49QnjFZ5T6f6sdQY399HNzf/primary-teacher-resources Disallow: /programmes/profiles/4KFFdqWQZ9lSPl1qHnRPbNV/be-a-hero Disallow: /programmes/profiles/4yn6kWyMJZLgPZj4100SSkh/early-years-teacher-resources Disallow: /programmes/profiles/54k8kVKM9gTzVL4zvDJ1BzN/secondary-teacher-resources Disallow: /programmes/profiles/581RcyV6nP3Jtxk9Vcy9Hnq/downloads-for-early-years Disallow: /programmes/profiles/5wdxQwnlLHJNY9y2Nxm1RkQ/fundraising-ideas Disallow: /programmes/profiles/cGJ1RZ5pHG0Jl65YSN0YYc/downloads-for-secondary-schools Disallow: /programmes/profiles/qWq8hB1135cdgj2cqNXyWB/early-years-fundraising-ideas Disallow: /radio/aod/ Disallow: /radio/player Disallow: /russian/search Disallow: /safety/search Disallow: /schools/typing/about/ Disallow: /schools/typing/flash/ Disallow: /schools/typing/generic/ Disallow: /schools/typing/levels/ Disallow: /search/ Disallow: /search$ Disallow: /sinhala/search Disallow: /skillswise/quickfind/search Disallow: /somali/search Disallow: /survey/ Disallow: /swahili/search Disallow: /syndication/html/ Disallow: /tamil/search Disallow: /turkce/search Disallow: /ukchina/simp/search Disallow: /ukchina/trad/search Disallow: /ukrainian/search Disallow: /urdu/search Disallow: /uzbek/search Disallow: /vietnamese/search Disallow: /weather/broadband/ Disallow: /weather/search Disallow: /worldservice/images/ Disallow: /worldservice/psims/ Disallow: /worldservice/ssi/ Disallow: /worldservice/survey/ Disallow: /zhongwen/simp/search Disallow: /zhongwen/trad/search Disallow: /indepthtoolkit/smallprox$ Disallow: /indepthtoolkit/smallprox/ Disallow: /sounds/search$ Disallow: /sounds/search/ Disallow: /sounds/search? 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/bengali/search Disallow: /burmese/search Disallow: /cbbc/search Disallow: /cbeebies/search Disallow: /cgi-bin Disallow: /cgi-perl Disallow: /cgi-perlx Disallow: /cgi-store Disallow: /corporate2/bbctrust/search Disallow: /corporate2/insidethebbc/search Disallow: /corporate2/mediacentre/proginfo/search Disallow: /corporate2/mediacentre/search Disallow: /corporate2/safety/search Disallow: /cwynion/ Disallow: /eastenders/updates/ Disallow: /education/bitesize Disallow: /education/dev Disallow: /education/images Disallow: /education/nav Disallow: /education/navigation Disallow: /education/ximages Disallow: /eoltools/ Disallow: /films/gateways Disallow: /food/binder/ Disallow: /food/recipes/search*?* Disallow: /frameworks/fig/ Disallow: /furniture Disallow: /gahuza/search Disallow: /h2g2/servers/narthur8 Disallow: /hausa/search Disallow: /hindi/search Disallow: /history/domesday/search Disallow: /includes/ Disallow: /indonesia/search Disallow: /kyrgyz/search Disallow: /learningzone/clips/search Disallow: /mediacentre/proginfo/search Disallow: /mediacentre/search Disallow: /mediaselector Disallow: /messageboards/ Disallow: /modules/musicnav/language/ Disallow: /mundo/search Disallow: /music/language/* Disallow: /music/releases/ Disallow: /nav/ Disallow: /navigation Disallow: /nepali/search Disallow: /news/uk-30888157 Disallow: /news/uk-england-suffolk-20780472 Disallow: /news/0 Disallow: /news/videos/* Disallow: /partners/ Disallow: /pashto/search Disallow: /persian/search Disallow: /portuguese/search Disallow: /pressoffice/plots/ Disallow: /print/ Disallow: /programmes/articles/1jJwRxT3X9s0QlBsCMhvv7D/2013-fundraising-packs Disallow: /programmes/articles/1nSkm7VR3fypxqB16dDtVwk/how-to-get-sponsored Disallow: /programmes/articles/1RjY5ZcmdvRKPvbS662Jv9C/welsh-downloads-2013 Disallow: /programmes/articles/25h23bXRXFlGdVQ86hNFVkT/secondary-schools-fundraising Disallow: /programmes/articles/2S6fTlHnqvdHGswDJ9yLs6r/early-years-fundraising Disallow: 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/programmes/profiles/2dgMD54k88Lz77lYcy7mRhc/secondary-school-fundraising-ideas Disallow: /programmes/profiles/2x87wV7KW01sgY0dl7qBnT6/recipes Disallow: /programmes/profiles/33x1x5jLwh1MbhpFXhlxq37/posters-stickers-and-games Disallow: /programmes/profiles/3yvcq7cxMmNLCzSzDCWsPyM/primary-school-fundraising-ideas Disallow: /programmes/profiles/49qkZq0Pmmh4flWgYSPhgPj/fundraising-ideas-at-work Disallow: /programmes/profiles/49QnjFZ5T6f6sdQY399HNzf/primary-teacher-resources Disallow: /programmes/profiles/4KFFdqWQZ9lSPl1qHnRPbNV/be-a-hero Disallow: /programmes/profiles/4yn6kWyMJZLgPZj4100SSkh/early-years-teacher-resources Disallow: /programmes/profiles/54k8kVKM9gTzVL4zvDJ1BzN/secondary-teacher-resources Disallow: /programmes/profiles/581RcyV6nP3Jtxk9Vcy9Hnq/downloads-for-early-years Disallow: /programmes/profiles/5wdxQwnlLHJNY9y2Nxm1RkQ/fundraising-ideas Disallow: /programmes/profiles/cGJ1RZ5pHG0Jl65YSN0YYc/downloads-for-secondary-schools Disallow: 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robots.txt versions
| From | Through | State | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-26 | 2026-10-27 | ok 200 | 1c16746a8d02 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-15 CC-MAIN-2025-38 | www.bbc.co.uk | ok view | blocks | blocks | unknown | blocks | allows | unknown | blocks |
| 2023-10-02 CC-MAIN-2023-40 | www.bbc.co.uk | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2021-09-27 CC-MAIN-2021-39 | www.bbc.co.uk | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2020-09-28 CC-MAIN-2020-40 | www.bbc.co.uk | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2019-09-23 CC-MAIN-2019-39 | www.bbc.co.uk | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2018-09-24 CC-MAIN-2018-39 | www.bbc.co.uk | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-09-25 CC-MAIN-2017-39 | www.bbc.co.uk | ok view | partial | partial | unknown | partial | partial | unknown | partial |
| 2017-07-24 CC-MAIN-2017-30 | www.bbc.co.uk | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-04-24 CC-MAIN-2017-17 | bbc.co.uk | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-01-23 CC-MAIN-2017-04 | www.bbc.co.uk | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2016-10-03 CC-MAIN-2016-40 | bbc.co.uk | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2016-09-05 CC-MAIN-2016-36 | bbc.co.uk | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
Evidence
Every daily observation of bbc.co.uk 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/bbc.co.uk