discordapp.com: what it tells AI crawlers

On 27 October 2026, discordapp.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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robots.txt
ok (HTTP 200) · https://discord.com/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-26 · sha256 fd74e7f8abd01d90… · 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
Googlebotallowsthrough the * 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)not observed
Declares Content Signals (robots.txt or header)not observed
Says ai-train=no in a Content Signalnot observed
Points to an RSL licence (robots.txt License line or Link header)not observed
Answers with an x402 payment offer (lower bound: only the homepage is probed)not observed
Answers HTTP 402 Payment Required (lower bound: only the homepage is probed)not observed
Sends noai / noimageai directivesnot observed
Refused our fetcher (403 / challenge)no

robots.txt as recorded sha256 fd74e7f8abd01d90…

User-agent: *
Allow: /api/v*/store
Allow: /api/v*/applications
Allow: /api/v*/application-directory-static
Allow: /api/v*/invite
Allow: /api/v*/discovery
Allow: /api/discovery
Allow: /invite
Allow: /invite/
Allow: /terms
Allow: /privacy
Disallow: /channels
Disallow: /channels/
Disallow: /verify
Disallow: /verify/
Disallow: /reset
Disallow: /reset/
Disallow: /authorize-ip
Disallow: /authorize-ip/
Disallow: /reject-ip
Disallow: /reject-ip/
Disallow: /reject-mfa
Disallow: /reject-mfa/
Disallow: /oauth2
Disallow: /oauth2/
Disallow: /api
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /widget
Disallow: /widget/
Disallow: /profile/
Disallow: /report-review
Disallow: /report-review/
Disallow: /store/skus/
Disallow: /wasntme
Disallow: /wasntme/

User-agent: Twitterbot
Disallow: /channels
Disallow: /channels/
Disallow: /verify
Disallow: /verify/
Disallow: /reset
Disallow: /reset/
Disallow: /authorize-ip
Disallow: /authorize-ip/
Disallow: /reject-ip
Disallow: /reject-ip/
Disallow: /reject-mfa
Disallow: /reject-mfa/
Disallow: /report-review
Disallow: /report-review/
Disallow: /oauth2
Disallow: /oauth2/
Disallow: /api
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /widget
Disallow: /widget/
Disallow: /profile/
Allow: /api/v*/application-directory-static
Allow: /invite
Allow: /invite/
Allow: /terms
Allow: /privacy

User-agent: nsa
Disallow: /

Sitemap: https://discord.com/servers/servers-sitemap-index.xml
Sitemap: https://discord.com/servers/servers-parent-search-sitemap-index.xml
Sitemap: https://discord.com/application-directory-seo/sitemap-index.xml
Sitemap: https://discord.com/announcements/announcements-sitemap-index.xml
Sitemap: https://discord.com/trending-games/trending-games-sitemap-index.xml
Sitemap: https://discord.com/game/game-sitemap-index.xml
Sitemap: https://discord.com/blog/rss.xml

robots.txt versions

FromThroughStateVersion
2026-10-262026-10-27ok 200fd74e7f8abd0

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

Evidence

Every daily observation of discordapp.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/discordapp.com