dailymotion.com: what it tells AI crawlers
On 28 October 2026, dailymotion.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 2026-10-29 03:59 UTC (daily run of 2026-10-28). Proof for that day.
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- top 1k (Tranco)
- robots.txt
- ok (HTTP 200) · https://www.dailymotion.com/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-26 · sha2566d8bdcdf3f738c76…· view as recorded - The * group
- allows applies to every agent without its own group
Per AI bot, 2026-10-28
| 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 | allows | through the * group |
| Perplexity-User | allows | through the * group |
| Googlebot | allows | named in its own group |
| Google-Extended | allows | through the * group |
| Applebot-Extended | allows | through the * group |
| CCBot | allows | through the * group |
| Bytespider | allows | through the * group |
| Meta-ExternalAgent | allows | through the * group |
| Amazonbot | allows | through the * 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: "Dailymotion", 6,153 bytes, 0 links.
robots.txt as recorded sha256 b81412b0c5167a4a…
User-agent: * Disallow: /abuse/group/ Disallow: /activate Disallow: */alphaaz/ Disallow: */alphaza/ Disallow: */bookmarks/ Disallow: */commented/ Disallow: */commented-month/ Disallow: */commented-today/ Disallow: */commented-week/ Disallow: /comments/ Disallow: /controller/ Disallow: */country/ Disallow: */created-after/ Disallow: */creative-official+internal/ Disallow: /edit/ Disallow: */edited/ Disallow: /factory/ Disallow: /family_filter Disallow: */featuredby/ Disallow: /followers/ Disallow: /group/terms/ Disallow: /groups/active/user/ Disallow: /groups/user/ Disallow: /history/log/ Disallow: */internal+no-explicit/ Disallow: /json/ Disallow: */lang/ Disallow: */least/ Disallow: /logger/ Disallow: /masscast/ Disallow: /middle Disallow: */most/ Disallow: */mychannel/ Disallow: */official+internal/ Disallow: /page/html/ Disallow: /pageitem/ Disallow: /playlists/*/user/ Disallow: */popular/*/channel/ Disallow: */popular-month/*/channel/ Disallow: */popular-week/*/channel/ Disallow: /promote/ Disallow: */random/ Disallow: /register/activate Disallow: */related/ Disallow: /rss/ Disallow: */search/ Disallow: */skip-video/ Disallow: */stag/ Disallow: */subscribedto/ Disallow: /subscriptions/ Disallow: */tag/ Disallow: /&tid=generator Disallow: */unotes/ Disallow: /user/*/channel/ Disallow: */user_list/ Disallow: */users/group/ Disallow: */users/*/group/ Disallow: */users/popular-week/ Disallow: /_v1st Disallow: /video/edit Disallow: */visited/group/ Disallow: */visited/*/group/ Disallow: */visited-hour/ Disallow: */visited-month/ Disallow: */visited-today/ Disallow: /widget_chunks/ User-agent: Googlebot Disallow: /abuse/group/ Disallow: /activate Disallow: */alphaaz/ Disallow: */alphaza/ Disallow: */bookmarks/ Disallow: */commented/ Disallow: */commented-month/ Disallow: */commented-today/ Disallow: */commented-week/ Disallow: /comments/ Disallow: /controller/ Disallow: */country/ Disallow: */created-after/ Disallow: */creative-official+internal/ Disallow: /edit/ Disallow: */edited/ Disallow: /factory/ Disallow: /family_filter Disallow: */featuredby/ Disallow: /followers/ Disallow: /group/terms/ Disallow: /groups/active/user/ Disallow: /groups/user/ Disallow: /history/log/ Disallow: */internal+no-explicit/ Disallow: /json/ Disallow: */lang/ Disallow: */least/ Disallow: /logger/ Disallow: /masscast/ Disallow: /middle Disallow: */most/ Disallow: */mychannel/ Disallow: */official+internal/ Disallow: /page/html/ Disallow: /pageitem/ Disallow: /playlists/*/user/ Disallow: */popular/*/channel/ Disallow: */popular-month/*/channel/ Disallow: */popular-week/*/channel/ Disallow: /promote/ Disallow: */random/ Disallow: /register/activate Disallow: */related/ Disallow: /rss/ Disallow: */search/ Disallow: */skip-video/ Disallow: */stag/ Disallow: */subscribedto/ Disallow: /subscriptions/ Disallow: */tag/ Disallow: /&tid=generator Disallow: */unotes/ Disallow: /user/*/channel/ Disallow: */user_list/ Disallow: */users/group/ Disallow: */users/*/group/ Disallow: */users/popular-week/ Disallow: /_v1st Disallow: /video/edit Disallow: */visited/group/ Disallow: */visited/*/group/ Disallow: */visited-hour/ Disallow: */visited-month/ Disallow: */visited-today/ Disallow: /widget_chunks/ # Mediapartners can crawl more routes than other bots, this is as designed User-agent: Mediapartners-Google Disallow: /abuse/group/ Disallow: /activate Disallow: */alphaaz/ Disallow: */alphaza/ Disallow: /comments/ Disallow: /controller/ Disallow: */country/ Disallow: */created-after/ Disallow: */creative-official+internal/ Disallow: /edit/ Disallow: */edited/ Disallow: /factory/ Disallow: /family_filter Disallow: */featuredby/ Disallow: /followers/ Disallow: /group/terms/ Disallow: /groups/active/user/ Disallow: /groups/user/ Disallow: /history/log/ Disallow: */internal+no-explicit/ Disallow: /json/ Disallow: */lang/ Disallow: */least/ Disallow: /logger/ Disallow: /masscast/ Disallow: /middle Disallow: */most/ Disallow: */mychannel/ Disallow: */official+internal/ Disallow: /page/html/ Disallow: /pageitem/ Disallow: /playlists/*/user/ Disallow: */popular/*/channel/ Disallow: */popular-month/*/channel/ Disallow: */popular-week/*/channel/ Disallow: /promote/ Disallow: */random/ Disallow: /register/activate Disallow: /rss/ Disallow: /_v1st Disallow: */stag/ Disallow: /subscriptions/ Disallow: /&tid=generator Disallow: */unotes/ Disallow: /user/*/channel/ Disallow: */user_list/ Disallow: */users/group/ Disallow: */users/*/group/ Disallow: */users/popular-week/ Disallow: /video/edit Disallow: /widget_chunks/ User-agent: YandexBot Disallow: /abuse/group/ Disallow: /activate Disallow: */alphaaz/ Disallow: */alphaza/ Disallow: */bookmarks/ Disallow: */commented/ Disallow: */commented-month/ Disallow: */commented-today/ Disallow: */commented-week/ Disallow: /comments/ Disallow: /controller/ Disallow: */country/ Disallow: */created-after/ Disallow: */creative-official+internal/ Disallow: /edit/ Disallow: */edited/ Disallow: /factory/ Disallow: /family_filter Disallow: */featuredby/ Disallow: /followers/ Disallow: /group/terms/ Disallow: /groups/active/user/ Disallow: /groups/user/ Disallow: /history/log/ Disallow: */internal+no-explicit/ Disallow: /json/ Disallow: */lang/ Disallow: */least/ Disallow: /logger/ Disallow: /masscast/ Disallow: /middle Disallow: */most/ Disallow: */mychannel/ Disallow: */official+internal/ Disallow: /page/html/ Disallow: /pageitem/ Disallow: /playlists/*/user/ Disallow: */popular/*/channel/ Disallow: */popular-month/*/channel/ Disallow: */popular-week/*/channel/ Disallow: /promote/ Disallow: */random/ Disallow: /register/activate Disallow: */related/ Disallow: /rss/ Disallow: */search/ Disallow: */skip-video/ Disallow: */stag/ Disallow: */subscribedto/ Disallow: /subscriptions/ Disallow: */tag/ Disallow: /&tid=generator Disallow: */unotes/ Disallow: /user/*/channel/ Disallow: */user_list/ Disallow: */users/group/ Disallow: */users/*/group/ Disallow: */users/popular-week/ Disallow: /_v1st Disallow: /video/edit Disallow: */visited/group/ Disallow: */visited/*/group/ Disallow: */visited-hour/ Disallow: */visited-month/ Disallow: */visited-today/ Disallow: /widget_chunks/ User-agent: YandexVideo Disallow: /abuse/group/ Disallow: /activate Disallow: */alphaaz/ Disallow: */alphaza/ Disallow: */bookmarks/ Disallow: */commented/ Disallow: */commented-month/ Disallow: */commented-today/ Disallow: */commented-week/ Disallow: /comments/ Disallow: /controller/ Disallow: */country/ Disallow: */created-after/ Disallow: */creative-official+internal/ Disallow: /edit/ Disallow: */edited/ Disallow: /factory/ Disallow: /family_filter Disallow: */featuredby/ Disallow: /followers/ Disallow: /group/terms/ Disallow: /groups/active/user/ Disallow: /groups/user/ Disallow: /history/log/ Disallow: */internal+no-explicit/ Disallow: /json/ Disallow: */lang/ Disallow: */least/ Disallow: /logger/ Disallow: /masscast/ Disallow: /middle Disallow: */most/ Disallow: */mychannel/ Disallow: */official+internal/ Disallow: /page/html/ Disallow: /pageitem/ Disallow: /playlists/*/user/ Disallow: */popular/*/channel/ Disallow: */popular-month/*/channel/ Disallow: */popular-week/*/channel/ Disallow: /promote/ Disallow: */random/ Disallow: /register/activate Disallow: */related/ Disallow: /rss/ Disallow: */search/ Disallow: */skip-video/ Disallow: */stag/ Disallow: */subscribedto/ Disallow: /subscriptions/ Disallow: */tag/ Disallow: /&tid=generator Disallow: */unotes/ Disallow: /user/*/channel/ Disallow: */user_list/ Disallow: */users/group/ Disallow: */users/*/group/ Disallow: */users/popular-week/ Disallow: /_v1st Disallow: /video/edit Disallow: */visited/group/ Disallow: */visited/*/group/ Disallow: */visited-hour/ Disallow: */visited-month/ Disallow: */visited-today/ Disallow: /widget_chunks/ User-agent: msnbot-media Disallow: /abuse/group/ Disallow: /activate Disallow: */alphaaz/ Disallow: */alphaza/ Disallow: */bookmarks/ Disallow: */commented/ Disallow: */commented-month/ Disallow: */commented-today/ Disallow: */commented-week/ Disallow: /comments/ Disallow: /controller/ Disallow: */country/ Disallow: */created-after/ Disallow: */creative-official+internal/ Disallow: /edit/ Disallow: */edited/ Disallow: /factory/ Disallow: /family_filter Disallow: */featuredby/ Disallow: /followers/ Disallow: /group/terms/ Disallow: /groups/active/user/ Disallow: /groups/user/ Disallow: /history/log/ Disallow: */internal+no-explicit/ Disallow: /json/ Disallow: */lang/ Disallow: */least/ Disallow: /logger/ Disallow: /masscast/ Disallow: /middle Disallow: */most/ Disallow: */mychannel/ Disallow: */official+internal/ Disallow: /page/html/ Disallow: /pageitem/ Disallow: /playlists/*/user/ Disallow: */popular/*/channel/ Disallow: */popular-month/*/channel/ Disallow: */popular-week/*/channel/ Disallow: /promote/ Disallow: */random/ Disallow: /register/activate Disallow: */related/ Disallow: /rss/ Disallow: */search/ Disallow: */skip-video/ Disallow: */stag/ Disallow: */subscribedto/ Disallow: /subscriptions/ Disallow: */tag/ Disallow: /&tid=generator Disallow: */unotes/ Disallow: /user/*/channel/ Disallow: */user_list/ Disallow: */users/group/ Disallow: */users/*/group/ Disallow: */users/popular-week/ Disallow: /_v1st Disallow: /video/edit Disallow: */visited/group/ Disallow: */visited/*/group/ Disallow: */visited-hour/ Disallow: */visited-month/ Disallow: */visited-today/ Disallow: /widget_chunks/ User-agent: Botify Disallow: /abuse/group/ Disallow: /activate Disallow: */alphaaz/ Disallow: */alphaza/ Disallow: /archived/ # special-case Botify Disallow: */bookmarks/ Disallow: */commented/ Disallow: */commented-month/ Disallow: */commented-today/ Disallow: */commented-week/ Disallow: /comments/ Disallow: /controller/ Disallow: */country/ Disallow: */created-after/ Disallow: */creative-official+internal/ Disallow: /edit/ Disallow: */edited/ Disallow: /factory/ Disallow: /family_filter Disallow: */featuredby/ Disallow: /followers/ Disallow: /group/terms/ Disallow: /groups/active/user/ Disallow: /groups/user/ Disallow: /history/log/ Disallow: */internal+no-explicit/ Disallow: /json/ Disallow: */lang/ Disallow: */least/ Disallow: /logger/ Disallow: /masscast/ Disallow: /middle Disallow: */most/ Disallow: */mychannel/ Disallow: */official+internal/ Disallow: /page/html/ Disallow: /pageitem/ Disallow: /playlists/*/user/ Disallow: */popular/*/channel/ Disallow: */popular-month/*/channel/ Disallow: */popular-week/*/channel/ Disallow: /promote/ Disallow: */random/ Disallow: /register/activate Disallow: */related/ Disallow: /rss/ Disallow: */search/ Disallow: */skip-video/ Disallow: */stag/ Disallow: */subscribedto/ Disallow: /subscriptions/ Disallow: */tag/ Disallow: /&tid=generator Disallow: */unotes/ Disallow: /user/*/channel/ Disallow: */user_list/ Disallow: */users/group/ Disallow: */users/*/group/ Disallow: */users/popular-week/ Disallow: /_v1st Disallow: /video/edit Disallow: */visited/group/ Disallow: */visited/*/group/ Disallow: */visited-hour/ Disallow: */visited-month/ Disallow: */visited-today/ Disallow: /widget_chunks/ Sitemap: http://www.dailymotion.com/map-regular.xml Sitemap: http://www.dailymotion.com/map-videofull.xml Sitemap: http://www.dailymotion.com/map-videolast.xml
robots.txt versions
| From | Through | State | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-26 | 2026-10-28 | ok 200 | 6d8bdcdf3f73 |
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.dailymotion.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2025-09-15 CC-MAIN-2025-38 | www.dailymotion.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2024-09-16 CC-MAIN-2024-38 | www.dailymotion.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2023-10-02 CC-MAIN-2023-40 | www.dailymotion.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2022-10-03 CC-MAIN-2022-40 | www.dailymotion.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2021-09-27 CC-MAIN-2021-39 | www.dailymotion.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2020-09-28 CC-MAIN-2020-40 | www.dailymotion.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2019-09-23 CC-MAIN-2019-39 | www.dailymotion.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2018-09-24 CC-MAIN-2018-39 | www.dailymotion.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2018-04-23 CC-MAIN-2018-17 | www.dailymotion.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2018-01-29 CC-MAIN-2018-05 | www.dailymotion.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-10-23 CC-MAIN-2017-43 | www.dailymotion.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-09-25 CC-MAIN-2017-39 | www.dailymotion.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-07-24 CC-MAIN-2017-30 | www.dailymotion.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-04-24 CC-MAIN-2017-17 | dailymotion.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-01-23 CC-MAIN-2017-04 | dailymotion.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2016-10-03 CC-MAIN-2016-40 | dailymotion.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2016-09-05 CC-MAIN-2016-36 | dailymotion.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
Evidence
Every daily observation of dailymotion.com is a leaf in that day's Merkle tree. Proof of the robots.txt line for 2026-10-28: audit path (JSON), day root and OpenTimestamps proof (complete (bitcoin block 973640)).
API: https://infrarabbit.com/crawlers/api/v1/policy/dailymotion.com