delfi.lt: what it tells AI crawlers

On 27 October 2026, delfi.lt's robots.txt fully blocked GPTBot, ClaudeBot and CCBot; it also signalled ai-train=no.

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://delfi.lt/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-27 · sha256 d35cfa31cc1d6b02… · view as recorded
The * group
allows applies to every agent without its own group

Per AI bot, 2026-10-27

User agentVerdictHow
GPTBotblocksnamed in its own group
OAI-SearchBotallowsnamed in its own group
ChatGPT-Userallowsnamed in its own group
ClaudeBotblocksnamed in its own group
Claude-SearchBotallowsnamed in its own group
Claude-Userallowsnamed in its own group
PerplexityBotallowsnamed in its own group
Perplexity-Userallowsnamed in its own group
Googlebotallowsthrough the * group
Google-Extendedallowsnamed in its own group
Applebot-Extendedblocksnamed in its own group
CCBotblocksnamed in its own group
Bytespiderblocksnamed in its own group
Meta-ExternalAgentblocksnamed in its own group
Amazonbotblocksnamed in its own group
Amzn-SearchBotallowsnamed in its own group
Amzn-Userallowsnamed in its own group
anthropic-aiblocksnamed in its own group
Applebotallowsnamed in its own group
cohere-aiblocksnamed in its own group
cohere-training-data-crawlerblocksnamed in its own group
Diffbotblocksnamed in its own group
DuckAssistBotallowsnamed in its own group
FacebookBotblocksnamed in its own group
meta-externalfetcherallowsnamed in its own group
omgiliblocksnamed in its own group
PanguBotblocksnamed in its own group
Timpibotblocksnamed in its own group
Webzio-Extendedblocksnamed in its own group
YouBotallowsnamed in its own 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)yes
Says ai-train=no in a Content Signalyes
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

Content signals: search=yes, ai-input=yes, ai-train=no, use=reference for *

robots.txt as recorded sha256 61a0c45542ddca1b…

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /search?*
Disallow: /paieska?*
Disallow: /poisk*
Disallow: /*&com=*

User-agent: AI2Bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: Applebot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Disallow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: cohere-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: Diffbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DuckAssistBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: FacebookBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Kangaroo Bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Disallow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher
Disallow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: omgili
Disallow: /

User-agent: PanguBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Timpibot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Webzio-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: YouBot
Disallow: /

Sitemap: https://www.delfi.lt/news/sitemap/index.xml

robots.txt versions

FromThroughStateVersion
2026-10-272026-10-27ok 200d35cfa31cc1ddiff with previous
2026-10-262026-10-26ok 200e7e312006ce3

Timeline of changes

DateWhat changed
2026-10-27robots.txt changed
2026-10-27now allows Google-Extended (was block)

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-2026-39delfi.ltok viewblocksblocksunknownblocksallowsunknownblocks
2025-09-15 CC-MAIN-2025-38delfi.ltok viewblocksblocksunknownblocksallowsunknownblocks
2024-09-16 CC-MAIN-2024-38www.delfi.ltok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2023-10-02 CC-MAIN-2023-40www.delfi.ltok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2022-10-03 CC-MAIN-2022-40www.delfi.ltok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2021-09-27 CC-MAIN-2021-39www.delfi.ltok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2020-09-28 CC-MAIN-2020-40www.delfi.ltok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2019-09-23 CC-MAIN-2019-39www.delfi.ltok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2018-09-24 CC-MAIN-2018-39www.delfi.ltok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2018-01-29 CC-MAIN-2018-05www.delfi.ltok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2017-10-23 CC-MAIN-2017-43www.delfi.ltok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2017-09-25 CC-MAIN-2017-39www.delfi.ltok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2017-07-24 CC-MAIN-2017-30www.delfi.ltok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2017-04-24 CC-MAIN-2017-17www.delfi.ltok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2017-01-23 CC-MAIN-2017-04www.delfi.ltok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2016-10-03 CC-MAIN-2016-40www.delfi.ltok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2016-09-05 CC-MAIN-2016-36www.delfi.ltok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows

Evidence

Every daily observation of delfi.lt 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/delfi.lt