businessinsider.com: what it tells AI crawlers
On 27 October 2026, businessinsider.com's robots.txt fully blocked ClaudeBot and CCBot; it also published llms.txt.
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.businessinsider.com/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-26 · sha25689f51cf7e3b532fe…· 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 | blocks | named in its own group |
| Claude-SearchBot | allows | through the * group |
| Claude-User | allows | through the * group |
| PerplexityBot | allows | through the * group |
| Perplexity-User | allows | through the * group |
| Googlebot | allows | through the * group |
| Google-Extended | allows | through the * group |
| Applebot-Extended | allows | through the * group |
| CCBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Bytespider | blocks | named in its own group |
| Meta-ExternalAgent | allows | through the * group |
| Amazonbot | allows | through the * group |
| anthropic-ai | blocks | named in its own group |
| Diffbot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Scrapy | blocks | named in its own group |
| Timpibot | blocks | named in its own group |
Other signals
| Publishes /llms.txt | yes |
| 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 |
llms.txt: "Business Insider", 1,066 bytes, 9 links.
robots.txt as recorded sha256 dac1056ce64beae1…
User-agent: * Disallow: /adframe Disallow: /partner/ Disallow: /ajax/ Disallow: /cms/ Disallow: /document/ Disallow: /terms$ Disallow: /privacy-policy$ Disallow: /disclaimer$ Disallow: /track.gif Disallow: /commerce-on-business-insider Disallow: /conflict-of-interest-policy Disallow: /insider$ Disallow: /associated-press$ Disallow: /reuters$ Disallow: /afp$ Disallow: /uk$ Disallow: /s$ Disallow: /search$ Disallow: /bi-panel-faq Disallow: /bi-panel-terms Disallow: /termsofsale Disallow: /categories Disallow: /comments$ Disallow: /.well-known/amphtml/apikey.pub User-agent: googlebot_news Disallow: /sc/ Disallow: /category/insider-picks Sitemap: https://www.businessinsider.com/sitemap/google-news.xml Sitemap: https://www.businessinsider.com/sitemap/advertising/index.xml Sitemap: https://www.businessinsider.com/sitemap/analysis/index.xml Sitemap: https://www.businessinsider.com/sitemap/businessinsider/index.xml Sitemap: https://www.businessinsider.com/sitemap/careers/index.xml Sitemap: https://www.businessinsider.com/sitemap/cfo/index.xml Sitemap: https://www.businessinsider.com/sitemap/clusterstock/index.xml Sitemap: https://www.businessinsider.com/sitemap/defense/index.xml Sitemap: https://www.businessinsider.com/sitemap/education/index.xml Sitemap: https://www.businessinsider.com/sitemap/enterprise/index.xml Sitemap: https://www.businessinsider.com/sitemap/inside-insider/index.xml Sitemap: https://www.businessinsider.com/sitemap/international/index.xml Sitemap: https://www.businessinsider.com/sitemap/law/index.xml Sitemap: https://www.businessinsider.com/sitemap/lists/index.xml Sitemap: https://www.businessinsider.com/sitemap/media/index.xml Sitemap: https://www.businessinsider.com/sitemap/moneygame/index.xml Sitemap: https://www.businessinsider.com/sitemap/news/index.xml Sitemap: https://www.businessinsider.com/sitemap/opinion/index.xml Sitemap: https://www.businessinsider.com/sitemap/politics/index.xml Sitemap: https://www.businessinsider.com/sitemap/retail/index.xml Sitemap: https://www.businessinsider.com/sitemap/sai/index.xml Sitemap: https://www.businessinsider.com/sitemap/science/index.xml Sitemap: https://www.businessinsider.com/sitemap/smallbusiness/index.xml Sitemap: https://www.businessinsider.com/sitemap/sportspage/index.xml Sitemap: https://www.businessinsider.com/sitemap/thelife/index.xml Sitemap: https://www.businessinsider.com/sitemap/thewire/index.xml Sitemap: https://www.businessinsider.com/sitemap/transportation/index.xml Sitemap: https://www.businessinsider.com/sitemap/travel/index.xml Sitemap: https://www.businessinsider.com/sitemap/warroom/index.xml Sitemap: https://www.businessinsider.com/sitemap/wealthadvisor/index.xml Sitemap: https://www.businessinsider.com/sitemap/yourmoney/index.xml
robots.txt versions
| From | Through | State | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-26 | 2026-10-27 | ok 200 | 89f51cf7e3b5 |
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.businessinsider.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | blocks | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2025-09-15 CC-MAIN-2025-38 | www.businessinsider.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | blocks | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2024-09-16 CC-MAIN-2024-38 | www2.businessinsider.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | blocks | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2023-10-02 CC-MAIN-2023-40 | www2.businessinsider.com | ok view | blocks | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2022-10-03 CC-MAIN-2022-40 | www2.businessinsider.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2021-09-27 CC-MAIN-2021-39 | www.businessinsider.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2020-09-28 CC-MAIN-2020-40 | www.businessinsider.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2019-09-23 CC-MAIN-2019-39 | www.businessinsider.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2018-09-24 CC-MAIN-2018-39 | www.businessinsider.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-09-25 CC-MAIN-2017-39 | www2.businessinsider.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-01-23 CC-MAIN-2017-04 | businessinsider.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2016-10-03 CC-MAIN-2016-40 | businessinsider.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2016-09-05 CC-MAIN-2016-36 | businessinsider.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
Evidence
Every daily observation of businessinsider.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/businessinsider.com