dzen.ru: what it tells AI crawlers

On 28 October 2026, dzen.ru's robots.txt allowed all of GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Google-Extended, PerplexityBot and CCBot.

Last verified 2026-10-29 03:59 UTC (daily run of 2026-10-28). 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, 2026-10-28

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 c809a75259bf0f5c…

User-agent: Yandex
Allow: /
Allow: /.well-known/assetlinks.json
Allow: /*?utm_sourse=55
Disallow: /about*?*
Disallow: /away
Disallow: /top$
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /money
Disallow: /onboarding
Disallow: /news/top
Disallow: /news/smi
Disallow: /news/search
Disallow: /t/
Disallow: /user/
Disallow: /embed/
Disallow: /*/url
Disallow: /video/games/tags/
Disallow: /*sso_failed=
Disallow: /*erid=
Disallow: /*.html$
Disallow: /*?utm*

Clean-param: &_csrf
Clean-param: &action
Clean-param: &amp
Clean-param: &ampplace
Clean-param: &amupr_id
Clean-param: &appsearch_header
Clean-param: &autoplay
Clean-param: &backoffice
Clean-param: &branding
Clean-param: &briefEditorPublicationId
Clean-param: &bx_sender_conversion_id
Clean-param: &clid
Clean-param: &collection
Clean-param: &comment-request
Clean-param: &comments_data
Clean-param: &content
Clean-param: &contour
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: &experiment
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_cloud
Clean-param: &from_floors_promo
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: &id
Clean-param: &integration
Clean-param: &interview_id
Clean-param: &invite
Clean-param: &item_id
Clean-param: &lang
Clean-param: &link
Clean-param: &loop
Clean-param: &lr
Clean-param: &modal
Clean-param: &mt_click_id
Clean-param: &mt_link_id
Clean-param: &mute
Clean-param: &no_ad
Clean-param: &noredir
Clean-param: &nw
Clean-param: &p
Clean-param: &page
Clean-param: &parent_rid
Clean-param: &persistent_id
Clean-param: &persistent_id
Clean-param: &place
Clean-param: &play_on_visible
Clean-param: &pulse_user_id
Clean-param: &query
Clean-param: &ref
Clean-param: &referrer
Clean-param: &referrer_clid
Clean-param: &referrer_place
Clean-param: &repostId
Clean-param: &repostId
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: &sso_failed
Clean-param: &stid
Clean-param: &story
Clean-param: &t
Clean-param: &text
Clean-param: &to
Clean-param: &token
Clean-param: &train
Clean-param: &tst
Clean-param: &tt
Clean-param: &tv
Clean-param: &utr
Clean-param: &uuid
Clean-param: &vertical
Clean-param: &via
Clean-param: &vid
Clean-param: &video_id
Clean-param: &wan
Clean-param: &web_uid
Clean-param: &web_yandexuid
Clean-param: &wizard
Clean-param: &yandexClientId

User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /
Allow: /.well-known/assetlinks.json
Disallow: /about*?*
Disallow: /away
Disallow: /top$
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /money
Disallow: /onboarding
Disallow: /news/top
Disallow: /news/smi
Disallow: /news/search
Disallow: /t/
Disallow: /user/
Disallow: /embed/
Disallow: /*/url
Disallow: /video/games/tags/
Disallow: /*_csrf
Disallow: /*action
Disallow: /*amp
Disallow: /*ampplace
Disallow: /*amupr_id
Disallow: /*appsearch_header=
Disallow: /*autoplay=
Disallow: /*backoffice=
Disallow: /*branding=
Disallow: /*briefEditorPublicationId=
Disallow: /*bx_sender_conversion_id=
Disallow: /*cachebust=
Disallow: /*clid=
Disallow: /*collection=
Disallow: /*country_code=
Disallow: /*erid=
Disallow: /*experiment=
Disallow: /*feed_exp=
Disallow: /*from_cloud=
Disallow: /*from_page=
Disallow: /*invite=
Disallow: /*loop=
Disallow: /*pulse_user_id=
Disallow: /*sso_failed=
Disallow: /*t=
Disallow: /*to=
Disallow: /*token=
Disallow: /*utm_referrer=
Disallow: /*utm_source=

User-agent: Mail.ru
Allow: /
Allow: /.well-known/assetlinks.json
Disallow: /about*?*
Disallow: /top$
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /money
Disallow: /onboarding
Disallow: /news/top
Disallow: /news/smi
Disallow: /news/search
Disallow: /t/
Disallow: /user/
Disallow: /embed/
Disallow: /*/url
Disallow: /video/games/tags/
Disallow: /*sso_failed=
Disallow: /*to=
Disallow: /*erid=
Disallow: /*.html$

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /
Allow: /.well-known/assetlinks.json
Disallow: /about*?*
Disallow: /top$
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /money
Disallow: /onboarding
Disallow: /news/top
Disallow: /news/smi
Disallow: /news/search
Disallow: /t/
Disallow: /user/
Disallow: /embed/
Disallow: /*/url
Disallow: /video/games/tags/
Disallow: /*sso_failed=
Disallow: /*to=
Disallow: /*erid=
Disallow: /*.html$

User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /
Allow: /.well-known/assetlinks.json
Disallow: /about*?*
Disallow: /away
Disallow: /top$
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /money
Disallow: /onboarding
Disallow: /news/top
Disallow: /news/smi
Disallow: /news/search
Disallow: /t/
Disallow: /user/
Disallow: /embed/
Disallow: /*/url
Disallow: /video/games/tags/
Disallow: /*?sso_failed=
Disallow: /*to=
Disallow: /*erid=
Disallow: /*.html$

User-agent: baiduspider
Allow: /
Allow: /.well-known/assetlinks.json
Disallow: /about*?*
Disallow: /away
Disallow: /top$
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /money
Disallow: /onboarding
Disallow: /news/top
Disallow: /news/smi
Disallow: /news/search
Disallow: /t/
Disallow: /user/
Disallow: /embed/
Disallow: /*/url
Disallow: /video/games/tags/
Disallow: /*?sso_failed=
Disallow: /*to=
Disallow: /*erid=
Disallow: /*.html$

User-agent: msnbot
Allow: /
Allow: /.well-known/assetlinks.json
Disallow: /about*?*
Disallow: /away
Disallow: /top$
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /money
Disallow: /onboarding
Disallow: /news/top
Disallow: /news/smi
Disallow: /news/search
Disallow: /t/
Disallow: /user/
Disallow: /embed/
Disallow: /*/url
Disallow: /video/games/tags/
Disallow: /*sso_failed=
Disallow: /*to=
Disallow: /*erid=
Disallow: /*.html$

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-Agent: *
Allow: /
Allow: /.well-known/assetlinks.json
Disallow: /about*?*
Disallow: /away
Disallow: /top$
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /money
Disallow: /onboarding
Disallow: /news/top
Disallow: /news/smi
Disallow: /news/search
Disallow: /t/
Disallow: /user/
Disallow: /*/url
Disallow: /video/games/tags/
Disallow: /*sso_failed=
Disallow: /*to=
Disallow: /*erid=
Disallow: /*.html$

Sitemap: https://dzen.ru/sitemaps/brief_v2/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://dzen.ru/sitemaps/brief_v2/sitemap.xml.gz
Sitemap: https://dzen.ru/sitemaps/channels_v2/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://dzen.ru/sitemaps/channels_v2/sitemap.xml.gz
Sitemap: https://dzen.ru/sitemaps/gif_long_v2/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://dzen.ru/sitemaps/gif_long_v2/sitemap.xml.gz
Sitemap: https://dzen.ru/sitemaps/gif_short_v2/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://dzen.ru/sitemaps/gif_short_v2/sitemap.xml.gz
Sitemap: https://dzen.ru/sitemaps/image_v2/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://dzen.ru/sitemaps/image_v2/sitemap.xml.gz
Sitemap: https://dzen.ru/sitemaps/native_v2/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://dzen.ru/sitemaps/native_v2/sitemap.xml.gz
Sitemap: https://dzen.ru/sitemaps/slug-factory/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://dzen.ru/sitemaps/slug-factory/sitemap.xml.gz
Sitemap: https://dzen.ru/sitemaps/suite_v2/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://dzen.ru/sitemaps/suite_v2/sitemap.xml.gz
Sitemap: https://dzen.ru/sitemaps/tv/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://dzen.ru/sitemaps/tv/sitemap.xml.gz
Sitemap: https://dzen.ru/sitemaps/news-archive/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://dzen.ru/sitemaps/news-archive/sitemap.xml.gz
Sitemap: https://dzen.ru/sitemaps/news-region/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://dzen.ru/sitemaps/news-region/sitemap.xml.gz
Sitemap: https://dzen.ru/sitemaps/news-rubric/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://dzen.ru/sitemaps/news-rubric/sitemap.xml.gz
Sitemap: https://dzen.ru/sitemaps/news-runtime/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://dzen.ru/sitemaps/news-runtime/sitemap.xml.gz
Sitemap: https://dzen.ru/sitemaps/meta-channel_v2/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://dzen.ru/sitemaps/meta-channel_v2/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
2018-07-23 CC-MAIN-2018-30	dzen.ru	ok view	allows	allows	unknown	allows	allows	unknown	allows
2018-04-23 CC-MAIN-2018-17	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 2026-10-28: audit path (JSON), day root and OpenTimestamps proof (complete (bitcoin block 973640)).

API: https://infrarabbit.com/crawlers/api/v1/policy/dzen.ru