capcut.com: what it tells AI crawlers

On 27 October 2026, capcut.com's robots.txt allowed all of GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Google-Extended, PerplexityBot 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.

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robots.txt

ok (HTTP 200) · https://www.capcut.com/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-26 · sha256 0164812d10b8d6dc… · view as recorded

Per AI bot, 2026-10-27

Other signals

llms.txt: "CapCut", 13,897 bytes, 86 links.

robots.txt as recorded sha256 0164812d10b8d6dc…

# Group: Blocked crawlers

User-agent: Baiduspider
User-agent: 360Spider
User-agent: Yisouspider
User-agent: Sogouspider
Disallow: /

# Group: Allowed crawlers with path restrictions

User-agent: Googlebot
User-agent: Applebot
User-agent: Bingbot
User-agent: DuckDuckBot
User-agent: Naverbot
User-agent: Twitterbot
User-agent: Yandex
User-agent: Facebot
User-agent: facebookexternalhit
User-agent: facebookcatalog
User-agent: Google-Extended
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
User-agent: MetaAI
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: ugqaautomaticallybot
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
User-agent: Claude-User
User-agent: Perplexity-User
User-agent: meta-webindexer
User-agent: meta-externalfetcher
User-agent: OAI-AdsBot
User-agent: Google-Agent
User-agent: Google-GeminiNotebook
User-agent: DuckAssistBot
User-agent: Amzn-SearchBot
User-agent: Amzn-User
User-agent: meta-externalads
Allow: /
Disallow: /t/
Disallow: */discover/*
Disallow: */kep/*
Disallow: /zh-hans/template-detail/*
Disallow: */template-detail/*?*from_page=*
Disallow: */template-detail/*?*from_page_click=*
Disallow: /tools/desktop-video-editor-activity
Disallow: /download-guidance
Disallow: /activity/download_pc
Disallow: /tools/test-session-start-url
Disallow: */resource/rtl-test-page$
Disallow: */desktop/text-to-speech$
Disallow: /templates/
Disallow: /lvpc_web*
Disallow: /activities/subscribe
Disallow: /tools/ai-image-ua$
Disallow: /tools/ai-video-maker-ua$
Disallow: /tools/ai-design-ua$

# LLMs.txt

LLM-Content: https://www.capcut.com/llms.txt

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 capcut.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/capcut.com