deepl.com: what it tells AI crawlers

On 27 October 2026, deepl.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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top 1k (Tranco)
robots.txt
ok (HTTP 200) · https://www.deepl.com/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-26 · sha256 175afdacbfd99bd6… · view as recorded
The * group
allows applies to every agent without its own group

Per AI bot, 2026-10-27

User agentVerdictHow
GPTBotallowsthrough the * group
OAI-SearchBotallowsthrough the * group
ChatGPT-Userallowsthrough the * group
ClaudeBotallowsthrough the * group
Claude-SearchBotallowsthrough the * group
Claude-Userallowsthrough the * group
PerplexityBotallowsthrough the * group
Perplexity-Userallowsthrough the * group
Googlebotallowsnamed in its own group
Google-Extendedallowsthrough the * group
Applebot-Extendedallowsthrough the * group
CCBotallowsthrough the * group
Bytespiderallowsthrough the * group
Meta-ExternalAgentallowsthrough the * group
Amazonbotallowsthrough the * group

Other signals

Publishes /llms.txtno
Publishes /ai.txtno
Publishes /.well-known/tdmrep.jsonno
Reserves TDM rights (TDMRep file, header or meta)no
Declares Content Signals (robots.txt or header)no
Says ai-train=no in a Content Signalno
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 directivesno
Refused our fetcher (403 / challenge)no

robots.txt as recorded sha256 175afdacbfd99bd6…

############################################
# Last full revision: 2026-08-31
############################################

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

##### Ads & Monetization #####
User-agent: AdsBot-Google
User-agent: AdsBot-Google-Mobile
User-agent: AdIdxBot
User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
User-agent: Ads-Naver
User-agent: Y!J-BRY
User-agent: Y!J-BRZ
# Full access for ads quality assessment & UTM tracking
Allow: /
# API legacy docs exclusion
Disallow: /*docs-api-legacy$
Disallow: /*docs-api-legacy/
# Cloudflare paths
Disallow: /cdn-cgi/bm/cv/
Disallow: /cdn-cgi/challenge-platform/
Disallow: /cdn-cgi/images/trace/
Disallow: /cdn-cgi/rum
Disallow: /cdn-cgi/scripts/
Disallow: /cdn-cgi/styles/
Disallow: /cdn-cgi/zaraz/

##### Organic #####
User-agent: Googlebot
User-agent: Bingbot
User-agent: Yeti
User-agent: Y!J-ASR
User-agent: Y!J-WSC
User-agent: Slurp
# Block campaign paths & UTM parameters
Disallow: */translator/c/
Disallow: /*utm_campaign=*
Disallow: /*utm_source=linguee*
# API legacy docs exclusion
Disallow: /*docs-api-legacy$
Disallow: /*docs-api-legacy/
# Cloudflare paths
Disallow: /cdn-cgi/bm/cv/
Disallow: /cdn-cgi/challenge-platform/
Disallow: /cdn-cgi/images/trace/
Disallow: /cdn-cgi/rum
Disallow: /cdn-cgi/scripts/
Disallow: /cdn-cgi/styles/
Disallow: /cdn-cgi/zaraz/

##### Everone else #####
User-agent: *
# Explicit access for campaign paths
Allow: */translator/c/
# API legacy docs exclusion
Disallow: /*docs-api-legacy$
Disallow: /*docs-api-legacy/
# Cloudflare paths
Disallow: /cdn-cgi/bm/cv/
Disallow: /cdn-cgi/challenge-platform/
Disallow: /cdn-cgi/images/trace/
Disallow: /cdn-cgi/rum
Disallow: /cdn-cgi/scripts/
Disallow: /cdn-cgi/styles/
Disallow: /cdn-cgi/zaraz/

robots.txt versions

FromThroughStateVersion
2026-10-262026-10-27ok 200175afdacbfd9

Timeline of changes

DateWhat 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.

CrawlHostStateGPTBotOAI-SearchBotChatGPT-UserClaudeBotClaude-SearchBotClaude-UserPerplexityBot
2026-09-21 CC-MAIN-2026-39www.deepl.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2025-09-15 CC-MAIN-2025-38deepl.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2024-09-16 CC-MAIN-2024-38www.deepl.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2023-10-02 CC-MAIN-2023-40www.deepl.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2022-10-03 CC-MAIN-2022-40www2.deepl.comabsentallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2021-09-27 CC-MAIN-2021-39www.deepl.comabsentallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2020-09-28 CC-MAIN-2020-40www2.deepl.comabsentallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2019-09-23 CC-MAIN-2019-39www.deepl.comabsentallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2018-09-24 CC-MAIN-2018-39www.deepl.comok viewblocksblocksunknownblocksblocksunknownblocks
2018-01-29 CC-MAIN-2018-05www.deepl.comok viewblocksblocksunknownblocksblocksunknownblocks
2017-10-23 CC-MAIN-2017-43www.deepl.comok viewblocksblocksunknownblocksblocksunknownblocks
2017-09-25 CC-MAIN-2017-39www.deepl.comok viewblocksblocksunknownblocksblocksunknownblocks

Evidence

Every daily observation of deepl.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/deepl.com