ea.com: what it tells AI crawlers

On 27 October 2026, ea.com's robots.txt allowed all of GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Google-Extended, PerplexityBot and CCBot; it also published llms.txt.

Last verified 2026-10-28 03:59 UTC (daily run of 2026-10-27). Proof for that day.

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top 1k (Tranco)

robots.txt

ok (HTTP 200) · https://www.ea.com/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-26 · sha256 a12b6bc756d5fcc5… · view as recorded

The * group

allows applies to every agent without its own group

Per AI bot, 2026-10-27

Other signals

llms.txt: "EA", 12,437 bytes, 18 links.

robots.txt as recorded sha256 a12b6bc756d5fcc5…

User-agent: *
Disallow: /results
Disallow: /games/the-sims/the-sims-4/home/
Disallow: /games/the-sims/the-sims-4/store-public-api/
Disallow: /games/the-sims/the-sims-4/store-pages/loginredirect
Disallow: /games/the-sims/the-sims-4/store-pages/logoutredirect
Disallow: /games/the-sims/the-sims-4/store-pages/paymentredirect
Disallow: /*/games/the-sims/the-sims-4/home/
Disallow: /*/games/the-sims/the-sims-4/store-public-api/
Disallow: /*/games/the-sims/the-sims-4/store-pages/loginredirect
Disallow: /*/games/the-sims/the-sims-4/store-pages/logoutredirect
Disallow: /*/games/the-sims/the-sims-4/store-pages/paymentredirect
Sitemap: https://www.ea.com/sitemap.xml

# --- BLOCKED BOTS ---
User-agent: AI2Bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: FriendlyCrawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: ICC-Crawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: cohere-ai
Disallow: /

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

User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Disallow: /
#Electronic Arts Inc. and its affiliated companies explicitly reserve all their rights in any content made available, including on websites, social media pages and any other platforms. Electronic Arts content includes without limitation, video games, visual displays of video games, characters, brands, artworks, images, videos, music, dialogue, story, and any Electronic Arts works or data.  Any use of such content for the development, training, programming, improvement and/or enhancement of artificial intelligence (including, but not limited to, generative AI systems), web scraping, machine learning, or any form of text or data mining, is prohibited, unless specifically and explicitly authorized in writing by Electronic Arts.

#This statement is a reservation of rights with respect to text and data mining under Article 4 (3) of Directive (EU) 2019/790 and any analogous statutes worldwide.

robots.txt versions

Timeline of changes

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.

Evidence

Every daily observation of ea.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/ea.com