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.
- Panel
- top 1k (Tranco)
- robots.txt
- ok (HTTP 200) · https://www.ebay.co.uk/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-26 · sha2561984ae3c90c886ba…· 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 | blocks | named in its own group |
| OAI-SearchBot | allows | named in its own group |
| ChatGPT-User | allows | named in its own group |
| ClaudeBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Claude-SearchBot | allows | named in its own group |
| Claude-User | allows | named in its own group |
| PerplexityBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Perplexity-User | allows | through the * group |
| Googlebot | allows | named in its own group |
| Google-Extended | allows | through the * group |
| Applebot-Extended | blocks | named in its own group |
| CCBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Bytespider | blocks | named in its own group |
| Meta-ExternalAgent | blocks | named in its own group |
| Amazonbot | blocks | named in its own group |
| anthropic-ai | blocks | named in its own group |
| ChatGLM-Spider | blocks | named in its own 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 ac2de172c5436ee8…
### 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. # v3 # User-agent: * Disallow: /*rt=nc Disallow: /b/*LH_ Disallow: /clt/store/ Disallow: /csc/ Disallow: /ctg/ Disallow: /ctm/ Disallow: /dsc/ Disallow: /edc/ Disallow: /feed/ Disallow: /gsr/ Disallow: /itc/ Disallow: /lit/ Disallow: /lst/ng/ Disallow: /lvx/ Disallow: /mbf/ Disallow: /mla/ Disallow: /mlt/ Disallow: /myb/ Disallow: /mys/ Disallow: /prp/ Disallow: /rcm/ Disallow: /sch/*%7C Disallow: /sch/*LH_ Disallow: /sch/aop/ Disallow: /sch/ctg/ Disallow: /sl/node Disallow: /sme/ Disallow: /soc/ Disallow: /tickets/ Disallow: /today/ Disallow: /urw/write-review/ Disallow: /ws/ Disallow: /sch/*modules=SEARCH_REFINEMENTS_MODEL_V2 Disallow: /b/*modules=SEARCH_REFINEMENTS_MODEL_V2 Disallow: /itm/*_nkw Disallow: /itm/*?fits Disallow: /itm/*&fits Disallow: /cta/ # PRP Sitemaps Sitemap: https://www.ebay.co.uk/lst/PRP-3-index.xml # SSRP Sitemaps Sitemap: https://www.ebay.co.uk/lst/SSRP-3-index.xml # VIS Sitemaps Sitemap: https://www.ebay.co.uk/lst/VIS-3-index.xml # BHPS Sitemaps Sitemap: https://www.ebay.co.uk/lst/BHPS-3-index.xml # NGS Sitemaps Sitemap: https://www.ebay.co.uk/lst/NGS-3-index.xml ### END FILE ###
robots.txt versions
| From | Through | State | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-26 | 2026-10-27 | ok 200 | 1984ae3c90c8 |
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 | www.ebay.co.uk | ok view | blocks | allows | unknown | blocks | allows | unknown | blocks |
| 2025-09-15 CC-MAIN-2025-38 | www.ebay.co.uk | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2024-09-16 CC-MAIN-2024-38 | www.ebay.co.uk | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2021-09-27 CC-MAIN-2021-39 | www.ebay.co.uk | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2020-09-28 CC-MAIN-2020-40 | www.ebay.co.uk | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2019-09-23 CC-MAIN-2019-39 | www.ebay.co.uk | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2018-09-24 CC-MAIN-2018-39 | www.ebay.co.uk | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-09-25 CC-MAIN-2017-39 | ebay.co.uk | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2016-10-03 CC-MAIN-2016-40 | ebay.co.uk | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2016-09-05 CC-MAIN-2016-36 | ebay.co.uk | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
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