dzen.ru: what it tells AI crawlers

On 27 October 2026, dzen.ru'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.

Panel: top 1k (Tranco)
robots.txt: ok (HTTP 200) · https://dzen.ru/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-26 · sha256 a6e7d16a66dcbbfe… · 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	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	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)	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

robots.txt as recorded sha256 94aa2a3d254acabc…

User-agent: Yandex
Allow: /
Disallow: /search*
Disallow: /t/*
Disallow: /*/url*
Disallow: /money*
Disallow: /onboarding
Disallow: /menu
Disallow: /user/*
Disallow: /*.html$
Disallow: /top
Disallow: /news/search*
Disallow: /news/top*
Disallow: /news/smi*
Disallow: /discover?feed_filter_source=*
Allow: /.well-known/assetlinks.json

Clean-param: &_csrf
Clean-param: &amp
Clean-param: &ampplace
Clean-param: &appsearch_header
Clean-param: &autoplay
Clean-param: &backoffice
Clean-param: &branding
Clean-param: &clid
Clean-param: &comment-request
Clean-param: &comments_data
Clean-param: &content
Clean-param: &country_code
Clean-param: &device_id
Clean-param: &encoded_pulse_user_id
Clean-param: &encoded_pulse_user_info
Clean-param: &epik
Clean-param: &f
Clean-param: &family
Clean-param: &fan
Clean-param: &favid
Clean-param: &feed_exp
Clean-param: &feed_filter_source
Clean-param: &firstchars
Clean-param: &flight_id
Clean-param: &from
Clean-param: &from_block
Clean-param: &from_page
Clean-param: &from_parent_id
Clean-param: &from_parent_type
Clean-param: &from_site
Clean-param: &ga_client_id
Clean-param: &hide_interest_header
Clean-param: &integration
Clean-param: &interview_id
Clean-param: &item_id
Clean-param: &lang
Clean-param: &loop
Clean-param: &lr
Clean-param: &modal
Clean-param: &mt_link_id
Clean-param: &mute
Clean-param: &noredir
Clean-param: &nw
Clean-param: &p
Clean-param: &page
Clean-param: &parent_rid
Clean-param: &persistent_id
Clean-param: &place
Clean-param: &query
Clean-param: &ref
Clean-param: &referrer
Clean-param: &referrer_clid
Clean-param: &referrer_place
Clean-param: &rid
Clean-param: &rubric
Clean-param: &secdata
Clean-param: &service
Clean-param: &share_to
Clean-param: &sid
Clean-param: &sortby
Clean-param: &source
Clean-param: &stid
Clean-param: &story
Clean-param: &t
Clean-param: &text
Clean-param: &token
Clean-param: &train
Clean-param: &tt
Clean-param: &tv
Clean-param: &utm_campaign
Clean-param: &utm_content
Clean-param: &utm_floors
Clean-param: &utm_medium
Clean-param: &utm_referrer
Clean-param: &utm_source
Clean-param: &utm_term
Clean-param: &utr
Clean-param: &uuid
Clean-param: &vertical
Clean-param: &via
Clean-param: &vid
Clean-param: &video_id
Clean-param: &wan
Clean-param: &wizard

User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /
Disallow: /search*
Disallow: /t/*
Disallow: /*/url*
Disallow: /money*
Disallow: /onboarding
Disallow: /menu
Disallow: /user/*
Disallow: /*.html$
Disallow: /top
Disallow: /news/search*
Disallow: /news/top*
Disallow: /news/smi*
Disallow: /discover?feed_filter_source=*
Allow: /.well-known/assetlinks.json

User-agent: Mail.ru
Allow: /
Disallow: /search*
Disallow: /t/*
Disallow: /*/url*
Disallow: /money*
Disallow: /onboarding
Disallow: /menu
Disallow: /user/*
Disallow: /*.html$
Disallow: /top
Disallow: /news/search*
Disallow: /news/top*
Disallow: /news/smi*
Disallow: /discover?feed_filter_source=*
Allow: /.well-known/assetlinks.json

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /
Disallow: /search*
Disallow: /t/*
Disallow: /*/url*
Disallow: /money*
Disallow: /onboarding
Disallow: /menu
Disallow: /user/*
Disallow: /*.html$
Disallow: /top
Disallow: /news/search*
Disallow: /news/top*
Disallow: /news/smi*
Disallow: /discover?feed_filter_source=*
Allow: /.well-known/assetlinks.json

User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /
Disallow: /search*
Disallow: /t/*
Disallow: /*/url*
Disallow: /money*
Disallow: /onboarding
Disallow: /menu
Disallow: /user/*
Disallow: /*.html$
Disallow: /top
Disallow: /news/search*
Disallow: /news/top*
Disallow: /news/smi*
Disallow: /discover?feed_filter_source=*
Allow: /.well-known/assetlinks.json

User-agent: baiduspider
Allow: /
Disallow: /search*
Disallow: /t/*
Disallow: /*/url*
Disallow: /money*
Disallow: /onboarding
Disallow: /menu
Disallow: /user/*
Disallow: /*.html$
Disallow: /top
Disallow: /news/search*
Disallow: /news/top*
Disallow: /news/smi*
Disallow: /discover?feed_filter_source=*
Allow: /.well-known/assetlinks.json

User-agent: msnbot
Allow: /
Disallow: /search*
Disallow: /t/*
Disallow: /*/url*
Disallow: /money*
Disallow: /onboarding
Disallow: /menu
Disallow: /user/*
Disallow: /*.html$
Disallow: /top
Disallow: /news/search*
Disallow: /news/top*
Disallow: /news/smi*
Disallow: /discover?feed_filter_source=*
Allow: /.well-known/assetlinks.json

User-Agent: *
Disallow: /search*
Disallow: /t/*
Disallow: /*/url*
Disallow: /money*
Disallow: /onboarding
Disallow: /menu
Disallow: /user/*
Disallow: /*.html$
Disallow: /top
Disallow: /news/search*
Disallow: /news/top*
Disallow: /news/smi*
Disallow: /discover?feed_filter_source=*
Allow: /.well-known/assetlinks.json

Sitemap: https://dzen.ru/sitemaps/daily/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://dzen.ru/sitemaps/daily/sitemap.xml.gz
Sitemap: https://dzen.ru/sitemaps/channels/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://dzen.ru/sitemaps/channels/sitemap.xml.gz
Sitemap: https://dzen.ru/sitemaps/video/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://dzen.ru/sitemaps/video/sitemap.xml.gz
Sitemap: https://dzen.ru/sitemaps/brief/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://dzen.ru/sitemaps/brief/sitemap.xml.gz
Sitemap: https://dzen.ru/sitemaps/native/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://dzen.ru/sitemaps/native/sitemap.xml.gz
Sitemap: https://dzen.ru/sitemaps/suite/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://dzen.ru/sitemaps/suite/sitemap.xml.gz
Sitemap: https://dzen.ru/sitemaps/video-games/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://dzen.ru/sitemaps/video-games/sitemap.xml.gz
Sitemap: https://dzen.ru/sitemaps/image/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://dzen.ru/sitemaps/image/sitemap.xml.gz
Sitemap: https://dzen.ru/sitemaps/slug-factory/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://dzen.ru/sitemaps/slug-factory/sitemap.xml.gz

robots.txt versions

From	Through	State	Version
2026-10-26	2026-10-28	ok 200	`a6e7d16a66dc`

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	dzen.ru	ok view	allows	allows	unknown	allows	allows	unknown	allows
2025-09-15 CC-MAIN-2025-38	dzen.ru	ok view	allows	allows	unknown	allows	allows	unknown	allows
2024-09-16 CC-MAIN-2024-38	dzen.ru	ok view	blocks	partial	unknown	partial	partial	unknown	partial
2023-10-02 CC-MAIN-2023-40	dzen.ru	ok view	partial	partial	unknown	partial	partial	unknown	partial
2022-10-03 CC-MAIN-2022-40	dzen.ru	ok view	partial	partial	unknown	partial	partial	unknown	partial
2018-09-24 CC-MAIN-2018-39	dzen.ru	ok view	allows	allows	unknown	allows	allows	unknown	allows
2018-01-29 CC-MAIN-2018-05	dzen.ru	ok view	allows	allows	unknown	allows	allows	unknown	allows
2017-10-23 CC-MAIN-2017-43	dzen.ru	ok view	allows	allows	unknown	allows	allows	unknown	allows
2017-09-25 CC-MAIN-2017-39	dzen.ru	ok view	allows	allows	unknown	allows	allows	unknown	allows
2017-07-24 CC-MAIN-2017-30	dzen.ru	ok view	allows	allows	unknown	allows	allows	unknown	allows
2017-04-24 CC-MAIN-2017-17	dzen.ru	ok view	allows	allows	unknown	allows	allows	unknown	allows
2017-01-23 CC-MAIN-2017-04	dzen.ru	ok view	allows	allows	unknown	allows	allows	unknown	allows
2016-09-05 CC-MAIN-2016-36	dzen.ru	ok view	allows	allows	unknown	allows	allows	unknown	allows

Evidence

Every daily observation of dzen.ru 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/dzen.ru