cloudinary.com: what it tells AI crawlers

On 27 October 2026, cloudinary.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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top 1k (Tranco)

robots.txt

ok (HTTP 200) · https://cloudinary.com/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-26 · sha256 ee6bf3a1b956f94a… · view as recorded

The * group

partial applies to every agent without its own group

Per AI bot, 2026-10-27

Other signals

llms.txt: "Cloudinary", 15,371 bytes, 68 links.

robots.txt as recorded sha256 3533ce51409624db…

User-agent: 008
Disallow: /
User-agent: Semrushbot-SA
Allow: /
User-agent: Semrushbot-SI
Allow: /
User-agent: *
Disallow: /blog/tag/*
Disallow: /blog/author/*
Disallow: /blog/20*
Disallow: /careers/jobs/*
Disallow: /demos/*
Disallow: /documentation/sdks/*
Disallow: /invites/*
Disallow: /users/*
Sitemap: https://cloudinary.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 cloudinary.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/cloudinary.com