ebay.co.uk: what it tells AI crawlers

On 27 October 2026, ebay.co.uk's robots.txt fully blocked GPTBot, ClaudeBot, 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://www.ebay.co.uk/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-26 · sha256 1984ae3c90c886ba… · view as recorded

The * group

allows applies to every agent without its own group

Per AI bot, 2026-10-27

Other signals

robots.txt as recorded sha256 1b908570414dd562…

### BEGIN FILE ###
#
# allow-all
# DR
#
# The use of robots or other automated means to access the eBay site
# without the express permission of eBay is strictly prohibited.
# Notwithstanding the foregoing, eBay may permit automated access to
# access certain eBay pages but soley for the limited purpose of
# including content in publicly available search engines. Any other
# use of robots or failure to obey the robots exclusion standards set
# forth at <http://www.robotstxt.org/ wc/ exclusion.html> is strictly
# prohibited.
#
# v4 - A New Hope

### DIRECTIVES ###

User-agent: *
Disallow: /*?maspect
Disallow: /*rt%3Dnc
Disallow: /*rt=nc
Disallow: /b/*?*_nkw
Disallow: /b/*?*|
Disallow: /b/*%EF
Disallow: /b/*LH_
Disallow: /b/*modules=SEARCH_REFINEMENTS_MODEL_V2
Disallow: /brw/
Disallow: /clp/
Disallow: /clt/store/
Disallow: /csc/
Disallow: /cta/
Disallow: /ctg/
Disallow: /ctm/
Disallow: /dsc/
Disallow: /e/*?
Disallow: /edc/
Disallow: /feed/
Disallow: /fdbk/
Disallow: /gsr/
Disallow: /gwc/
Disallow: /hcp/
Disallow: /ico/
Disallow: /itc/
Disallow: /itm/*_nkw
Disallow: /itm/*?fits
Disallow: /itm/*&fits
Disallow: /lit/
Disallow: /lst/ng/
Disallow: /lvx/
Disallow: /mbf/
Disallow: /mla/
Disallow: /mlt/
Disallow: /myb/
Disallow: /mys/
Disallow: /prp/
Disallow: /rcm/
Disallow: /sl/*bn_*?
Disallow: /sl/node
Disallow: /sme/
Disallow: /soc/
Disallow: /talk/
Disallow: /tickets/
Disallow: /today/
Disallow: /trylater/
Disallow: /urw/write-review/
Disallow: /usr/*/all-follows
Disallow: /usr/*/followers
Disallow: /vsp/
Disallow: /ws/
Allow: /sch/ebayadvsearch
Allow: /sch/allcategories/
Allow: /sch/*_ul
Allow: /sch/*_fosrp
Allow: /sch/*_trksid
Allow: /sch/i.html?_nkw=
Disallow: /sch/i.html?*_nkw=*&
Disallow: /sch/

User-agent: AdsBot-Google
Disallow:

User-agent: AdsBot-AdIdxBot
Disallow:


# STORES Sitemaps
Sitemap: http://www.ebay.co.uk/lst/STORES-3-index.xml

# RPP Sitemaps
Sitemap: http://www.ebay.co.uk/lst/RPP-3-index.xml

### END FILE ###

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 ebay.co.uk 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/ebay.co.uk