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.
- Panel
- top 10k (Tranco)
- robots.txt
- ok (HTTP 200) · https://delfi.lt/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-27 · sha256d35cfa31cc1d6b02…· view as recorded - The * group
- allows applies to every agent without its own group
Per AI bot, 2026-10-27
| User agent | Verdict | How |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| OAI-SearchBot | allows | named in its own group |
| ChatGPT-User | allows | named in its own group |
| ClaudeBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Claude-SearchBot | allows | named in its own group |
| Claude-User | allows | named in its own group |
| PerplexityBot | allows | named in its own group |
| Perplexity-User | allows | named in its own group |
| Googlebot | allows | through the * group |
| Google-Extended | allows | named in its own group |
| Applebot-Extended | blocks | named in its own group |
| CCBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Bytespider | blocks | named in its own group |
| Meta-ExternalAgent | blocks | named in its own group |
| Amazonbot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Amzn-SearchBot | allows | named in its own group |
| Amzn-User | allows | named in its own group |
| anthropic-ai | blocks | named in its own group |
| Applebot | allows | named in its own group |
| cohere-ai | blocks | named in its own group |
| cohere-training-data-crawler | blocks | named in its own group |
| Diffbot | blocks | named in its own group |
| DuckAssistBot | allows | named in its own group |
| FacebookBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| meta-externalfetcher | allows | named in its own group |
| omgili | blocks | named in its own group |
| PanguBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Timpibot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Webzio-Extended | blocks | named in its own group |
| YouBot | allows | named in its own group |
Other signals
| Publishes /llms.txt | no |
| 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) | yes |
| Says ai-train=no in a Content Signal | yes |
| 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 |
Content signals: search=yes, ai-input=yes, ai-train=no, use=reference for *
robots.txt as recorded sha256 d979d25e99753fbe…
# $Revision: 1.25 $ $Date: 2020-01-31 08:44:56 $ User-agent: * Disallow: /~ Disallow: /poll/ Disallow: /demo/ Disallow: /scripts/ Disallow: /spausdinti/ Disallow: /projektai/reklama/ Disallow: /*print.php Disallow: /*note.php Disallow: /*pictureID= Disallow: /*s2f= Disallow: /*s2f.php Disallow: /*com= Disallow: /fotogalerijos/*p= Disallow: /apps/banners/ Disallow: /*77676279 Disallow: /*va.php Sitemap: http://www.delfi.lt/sitemap.xml Sitemap: http://www.delfi.lt/sitemap_news.xml
robots.txt versions
| From | Through | State | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-27 | 2026-10-27 | ok 200 | d35cfa31cc1d | diff with previous |
| 2026-10-26 | 2026-10-26 | ok 200 | e7e312006ce3 |
Timeline of changes
| Date | What changed |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-27 | robots.txt changed |
| 2026-10-27 | now 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.
| Crawl | Host | State | GPTBot | OAI-SearchBot | ChatGPT-User | ClaudeBot | Claude-SearchBot | Claude-User | PerplexityBot |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-21 CC-MAIN-2026-39 | delfi.lt | ok view | blocks | blocks | unknown | blocks | allows | unknown | blocks |
| 2025-09-15 CC-MAIN-2025-38 | delfi.lt | ok view | blocks | blocks | unknown | blocks | allows | unknown | blocks |
| 2024-09-16 CC-MAIN-2024-38 | www.delfi.lt | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2023-10-02 CC-MAIN-2023-40 | www.delfi.lt | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2022-10-03 CC-MAIN-2022-40 | www.delfi.lt | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2021-09-27 CC-MAIN-2021-39 | www.delfi.lt | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2020-09-28 CC-MAIN-2020-40 | www.delfi.lt | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2019-09-23 CC-MAIN-2019-39 | www.delfi.lt | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2018-09-24 CC-MAIN-2018-39 | www.delfi.lt | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-09-25 CC-MAIN-2017-39 | www.delfi.lt | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2016-10-03 CC-MAIN-2016-40 | www.delfi.lt | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2016-09-05 CC-MAIN-2016-36 | www.delfi.lt | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
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