bfmtv.com: what it tells AI crawlers
On 28 October 2026, bfmtv.com's robots.txt fully blocked GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Google-Extended, PerplexityBot and CCBot.
Last verified 2026-10-29 03:59 UTC (daily run of 2026-10-28). Proof for that day.
- Panel
- top 10k (Tranco)
- robots.txt
- ok (HTTP 200) · https://www.bfmtv.com:443/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-26 · sha256352448706522a7d3…· view as recorded - The * group
- allows applies to every agent without its own group
Per AI bot, 2026-10-28
| 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 | 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 |
| AddSearchBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| aiHitBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Andibot | blocks | named in its own group |
| anthropic-ai | blocks | named in its own group |
| bedrockbot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Brightbot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Claude-Web | blocks | named in its own group |
| CloudVertexBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| cohere-ai | blocks | named in its own group |
| cohere-training-data-crawler | blocks | named in its own group |
| Crawlspace | blocks | named in its own group |
| Diffbot | blocks | named in its own group |
| FirecrawlAgent | 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 |
| GoogleOther | blocks | named in its own group |
| GoogleOther-Image | blocks | named in its own group |
| GoogleOther-Video | 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 |
| LinerBot | 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 |
| NovaAct | blocks | named in its own group |
| omgili | blocks | named in its own group |
| omgilibot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Operator | 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 |
| SBIntuitionsBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| SemrushBot-OCOB | blocks | named in its own group |
| SemrushBot-SWA | blocks | named in its own group |
| ShapBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| TerraCotta | blocks | named in its own group |
| Thinkbot | blocks | named in its own group |
| TikTokSpider | blocks | named in its own group |
| Timpibot | blocks | named in its own group |
| VelenPublicWebCrawler | blocks | named in its own group |
| Webzio-Extended | 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 | not observed |
| Reserves TDM rights (TDMRep file, header or meta) | not observed |
| 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 352448706522a7d3…
User-agent: * Disallow: /mon-compte/ Disallow: /code-promo/interstitiel/* # Sitemaps Sitemap: https://www.bfmtv.com/sitemap_news.xml Sitemap: https://www.bfmtv.com/sitemap_index_videos.xml Sitemap: https://www.bfmtv.com/sitemap_index_arbo_contenu.xml # GNews User-agent: Googlebot-News Disallow: /static/ Disallow: /services/ Disallow: /pratique/ Disallow: /comparateur/ Disallow: /code-promo/ Disallow: /archives/ # AI Assistants User-agent: ChatGPT-User User-agent: OAI-SearchBot User-agent: Claude-User User-agent: Claude-Web User-agent: Claude-SearchBot User-agent: Perplexity-User User-agent: Google-Extended User-agent: Gemini-Deep-Research User-agent: MistralAI-User Disallow: / Allow: /*_AB-* Allow: /*_AA-* Allow: /*_AO-* Allow: /*_DB-* Allow: /economie/professionnels/* Allow: /economie/operations/* Allow: /immobilier/services/* Allow: /tech/professionnels/* Allow: /tech/bons-plans/* Allow: /crypto/services/* Allow: /economie/replay-emissions/* Allow: /code-promo/* Allow: /comparateur/* Allow: /pratique/* # AI Crawlers User-agent: GPTBot Disallow: / User-agent: Operator Disallow: / User-agent: ClaudeBot Disallow: / User-agent: anthropic-ai Disallow: / User-agent: GoogleOther Disallow: / User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot Disallow: / User-agent: GoogleOther-Image Disallow: / User-agent: GoogleOther-Video Disallow: / User-agent: Applebot-Extended Disallow: / User-agent: meta-externalagent Disallow: / User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent Disallow: / User-agent: meta-externalfetcher Disallow: / User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher Disallow: / User-agent: Amazonbot Disallow: / User-agent: bedrockbot Disallow: / User-agent: NovaAct Disallow: / User-agent: PerplexityBot Disallow: / User-agent: cohere-ai Disallow: / User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler Disallow: / User-agent: Bytespider Disallow: / User-agent: TikTokSpider Disallow: / User-agent: CCBot Disallow: / User-agent: Diffbot Disallow: / User-agent: omgili Disallow: / User-agent: omgilibot Disallow: / User-agent: Webzio-Extended Disallow: / User-agent: YouBot Disallow: / User-agent: PetalBot Disallow: / User-agent: PanguBot Disallow: / User-agent: SemrushBot-OCOB Disallow: / User-agent: SemrushBot-SWA Disallow: / User-agent: ImagesiftBot Disallow: / User-agent: img2dataset Disallow: / User-agent: FirecrawlAgent Disallow: / User-agent: ShapBot Disallow: / User-agent: Thinkbot Disallow: / User-agent: VelenPublicWebCrawler Disallow: / User-agent: Andibot Disallow: / User-agent: PhindBot Disallow: / User-agent: YandexAdditional Disallow: / User-agent: YandexAdditionalBot Disallow: / User-agent: FriendlyCrawler Disallow: / User-agent: Crawlspace Disallow: / User-agent: ICC-Crawler Disallow: / User-agent: SBIntuitionsBot Disallow: / User-agent: Panscient Disallow: / User-agent: panscient.com Disallow: / User-agent: Timpibot Disallow: / User-agent: AddSearchBot Disallow: / User-agent: aiHitBot Disallow: / User-agent: iaskspider Disallow: / User-agent: LinerBot Disallow: / User-agent: CloudVertexBot Disallow: / User-agent: Google-Firebase Disallow: / User-agent: Terrecotta Disallow: / User-agent: TerraCotta Disallow: / User-agent: Kangaroo Bot Disallow: / User-agent: meta-webindexer Disallow: / User-agent: Brightbot Disallow: / User-agent: Brightbot 1.0 Disallow: / User-agent: SearchmetricsBot Disallow: / User-agent: deepcrawl Disallow: / User-agent: rogerbot Disallow: / User-agent: MJ12bot Disallow: / # Others User-agent: OrangeBot Crawl-delay: 1 User-agent: OrangeBot-Collector Crawl-delay: 1 User-Agent: Slurp Crawl-delay: 1 User-agent: Adixbot Crawl-delay: 5 User-Agent: YandexBot Crawl-delay: 5 User-agent: AhrefsBot Crawl-delay: 1 User-Agent: Sistrix Crawl-delay: 5 User-agent: SemrushBot Crawl-delay: 10 User-agent: Screaming Frog SEO Spider Crawl-delay: 10
robots.txt versions
| From | Through | State | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-26 | 2026-10-28 | ok 200 | 352448706522 |
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.bfmtv.com | ok view | blocks | blocks | unknown | blocks | blocks | unknown | blocks |
| 2025-09-15 CC-MAIN-2025-38 | www.bfmtv.com | ok view | blocks | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2024-09-16 CC-MAIN-2024-38 | www.bfmtv.com | ok view | blocks | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2023-10-02 CC-MAIN-2023-40 | www.bfmtv.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2022-10-03 CC-MAIN-2022-40 | www.bfmtv.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2021-09-27 CC-MAIN-2021-39 | www.bfmtv.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2020-09-28 CC-MAIN-2020-40 | www.bfmtv.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2019-09-23 CC-MAIN-2019-39 | www.bfmtv.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2018-09-24 CC-MAIN-2018-39 | www.bfmtv.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2018-04-23 CC-MAIN-2018-17 | www.bfmtv.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2018-01-29 CC-MAIN-2018-05 | www.bfmtv.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-10-23 CC-MAIN-2017-43 | www.bfmtv.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-09-25 CC-MAIN-2017-39 | www.bfmtv.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-07-24 CC-MAIN-2017-30 | www.bfmtv.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-04-24 CC-MAIN-2017-17 | www.bfmtv.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-01-23 CC-MAIN-2017-04 | bfmtv.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2016-10-03 CC-MAIN-2016-40 | www.bfmtv.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2016-09-05 CC-MAIN-2016-36 | www.bfmtv.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
Evidence
Every daily observation of bfmtv.com is a leaf in that day's Merkle tree. Proof of the robots.txt line for 2026-10-28: audit path (JSON), day root and OpenTimestamps proof (pending (4 calendars)).
API: https://infrarabbit.com/crawlers/api/v1/policy/bfmtv.com