blackberry.com: what it tells AI crawlers

On 27 October 2026, blackberry.com's robots.txt allowed all of GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Google-Extended, PerplexityBot 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://www.blackberry.com/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-26 · sha256 4b69050544d349d6… · 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 4b69050544d349d6…

#Robots.txt for blackberry.com

#blackberry.com
User-agent: *
Disallow: /profile/
Disallow: /sporders/
Disallow: /spsales/
Disallow: /test/
Disallow: /partnersupport/
Disallow: /imsupport/
Disallow: /emailers/ownerlounge/
Disallow: /emailers/itreseller/
Disallow: /newsletters/technicalsupport/
Disallow: /newsletters/channel/
Disallow: /developers/forum/
Disallow: /select/fr/soyezaudacieux/
Disallow: /select/pdfs/technicalreference/
Disallow: /support/tsupport/pdfs/noindex/
Disallow: /content/dam/blackberry-com/asset/enterprise/pdf/direct
Disallow: /content/dam/blackberry-com/asset/enterprise/webcast/direct
Disallow: /us/en/support/software-support-life-cycle/bcn-uem-downloads 
Disallow: /us/en/support/software-support-life-cycle/bcn-ues-downloads
Disallow: /*/unindexed/
Disallow: /*/thankyou
Disallow: /*/thank-you

User-agent: Uptimebot
Disallow: /

Sitemap: https://www.blackberry.com/sitemap.xml

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 blackberry.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/blackberry.com