bild.de: what it tells AI crawlers
On 27 October 2026, bild.de's robots.txt fully blocked PerplexityBot and CCBot; it also referenced an RSL licence.
Last verified 2026-10-28 03:59 UTC (daily run of 2026-10-27). Proof for that day.
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- ok (HTTP 200) · https://www.bild.de/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-26 · sha256f2af535c9e54f181…· 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 | allows | through the * group |
| OAI-SearchBot | allows | through the * group |
| ChatGPT-User | allows | through the * group |
| ClaudeBot | allows | through the * 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 | allows | through the * 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 | allows | through the * group |
| Amazonbot | blocks | named in its own group |
| aiHitBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Andibot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Awario | blocks | named in its own group |
| bedrockbot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Brightbot | 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 |
| Crawlspace | 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 |
| FirecrawlAgent | blocks | named in its own group |
| FriendlyCrawler | 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 |
| ISSCyberRiskCrawler | blocks | named in its own group |
| LCC | blocks | named in its own group |
| MistralAI-User | blocks | named in its own group |
| MyCentralAIScraperBot | 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 |
| QualifiedBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| QuillBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| SBIntuitionsBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Scrapy | blocks | named in its own group |
| SemrushBot-OCOB | blocks | named in its own group |
| SemrushBot-SWA | 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 |
| WARDBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Webzio-Extended | blocks | named in its own group |
| wpbot | 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) | yes |
| 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 |
RSL licence: https://www.bild.de/rsl.xml
robots.txt as recorded sha256 7bbb7ac22c11a9d4…
# Bei Fragen zu diesen Regeln oder Aenderungswuenschen koennen sie sich an das SEO-Team wenden, erreichbar unter 030 / 2591 79232 User-agent: Googlebot-News Disallow: /partner/ Disallow: /community/ Disallow: /vorprod/ Disallow: /test_stage/ Disallow: /test/ User-agent: Googlebot Disallow: /community/ Disallow: /vorprod/ Disallow: /test_stage/ Disallow: /test/ User-agent: Googlebot-Video Disallow: /community/ Disallow: /vorprod/ Disallow: /test_stage/ Disallow: /test/ User-agent: Googlebot-Image Disallow: /community/ Disallow: /vorprod/ Disallow: /test_stage/ Disallow: /test/ User-agent: Mediapartners-Google Disallow: /community/ Disallow: /vorprod/ Disallow: /test_stage/ Disallow: /test/ User-agent: Lizard Disallow: /community/ Disallow: /vorprod/ Disallow: /test_stage/ Disallow: /test/ User-agent: bingbot Disallow: /community/ Disallow: /vorprod/ Disallow: /test_stage/ Disallow: /test/ User-agent: Google-Sitemaps Disallow: /vorprod/ Disallow: /test_stage/ Disallow: /test/ User-agent: Google_InspectionTool Disallow: /community/ Disallow: /vorprod/ Disallow: /test_stage/ Disallow: /test/ # OpenAI ChatGPT User-agent: GPTBot Disallow: / # Google Bard User-agent: Google-Extended Disallow: / # Common Crawl Foundation User-agent: CCBot Disallow: / # Flamingo Search Engine User-agent: Flamingo_SearchEngine Disallow: / # ClaudeBot User-agent: ClaudeBot Disallow: / # Anthropic AI User-agent: anthropic-ai Disallow: / # Claude-Web User-agent: Claude-Web Disallow: / # Applebot-Extended User-agent: Applebot-Extended Disallow: / # Magpie Crawler User-agent: magpie-crawler Disallow: / # IA Archiver User-agent: ia_archiver Disallow: / # Omgili User-agent: omgili Disallow: / # OmgiliBot User-agent: omgilibot Disallow: / # Baidu Spider User-agent: Baiduspider Disallow: / # Ahrefs Bot User-agent: AhrefsBot Disallow: / # DataForSeo Bot User-agent: DataForSeoBot Disallow: / # Yeti User-agent: Yeti Disallow: / # Semrush Bot User-agent: SemrushBot Disallow: / # Senti Bot User-agent: sentibot Disallow: / # MJ12 Bot User-agent: MJ12bot Disallow: / # Byte Spider User-agent: Bytespider Disallow: / # Sirdata Bot User-agent: SirdataBot Disallow: / # LCC User-agent: LCC Disallow: / # Turnitin Bot User-agent: TurnitinBot Disallow: / # BLEX Bot User-agent: BLEXBot Disallow: / # Dot Bot User-agent: dotbot Disallow: / # ImageSift Bot User-agent: ImagesiftBot Disallow: / # Sitemaps Sitemap: https://www.bild.de/sitemap-news.xml Sitemap: https://www.bild.de/sitemap-video.xml Sitemap: https://www.bild.de/sitemap-index.xml Sitemap: https://www.bild.de/sitemap-category.xml
robots.txt versions
| From | Through | State | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-26 | 2026-10-27 | ok 200 | f2af535c9e54 |
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.bild.de | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | blocks |
| 2025-09-15 CC-MAIN-2025-38 | www.bild.de | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | blocks | blocks | unknown | blocks |
| 2024-09-16 CC-MAIN-2024-38 | www.bild.de | ok view | blocks | allows | unknown | blocks | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2023-10-02 CC-MAIN-2023-40 | www.bild.de | ok view | blocks | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2022-10-03 CC-MAIN-2022-40 | www.bild.de | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2021-09-27 CC-MAIN-2021-39 | www.bild.de | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2020-09-28 CC-MAIN-2020-40 | www.bild.de | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2019-09-23 CC-MAIN-2019-39 | www.bild.de | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2018-09-24 CC-MAIN-2018-39 | www.bild.de | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-09-25 CC-MAIN-2017-39 | www.bild.de | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-07-24 CC-MAIN-2017-30 | www.bild.de | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-04-24 CC-MAIN-2017-17 | bild.de | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-01-23 CC-MAIN-2017-04 | bild.de | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2016-10-03 CC-MAIN-2016-40 | www.bild.de | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2016-09-05 CC-MAIN-2016-36 | bild.de | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
Evidence
Every daily observation of bild.de 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)).