ebay.com: what it tells AI crawlers

On 27 October 2026, ebay.com'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.com/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-26 · sha256 221797cd7a314aeb… · 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 e2c26b5b82fa7b29…

### 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: *
Allow: /help/confidence/
Allow: /help/policies/
Disallow: /*rt=nc
Disallow: /ctg/
Disallow: /ebayadvsearch/
Disallow: /clp/
Disallow: /myb/
Disallow: /mbf/
Disallow: /vlp/
Disallow: /dsc/
Disallow: /ctm/
Disallow: /rcm/
Disallow: /sme/
Disallow: /gsr/
Disallow: /mlt/
Disallow: /vrt/
Disallow: /brw/
Disallow: /feed/
Disallow: /csc/
Disallow: /gwc/
Disallow: /gold-and-silver/
Disallow: /hcp/
Disallow: /ipod/
Disallow: /nintendo-ds/
Disallow: /today/
Disallow: /trylater/
Disallow: /vsp/
Disallow: /ws/
Disallow: /mla/
Disallow: /lvx/
Disallow: /mys/
Disallow: /talk/
Disallow: /sch/ctg/
Disallow: /prp/
Disallow: /urw/write-review/
Disallow: /clt/store/
Disallow: /itc/
Disallow: /lit/
Disallow: /sl/node
Disallow: /edc/

User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /lst/ng/
Allow: /help/confidence/
Allow: /help/policies/
Disallow: /*rt=nc
Disallow: /ctg/
Disallow: /ebayadvsearch/
Disallow: /clp/
Disallow: /myb/
Disallow: /mbf/
Disallow: /vlp/
Disallow: /dsc/
Disallow: /ctm/
Disallow: /rcm/
Disallow: /sme/
Disallow: /gsr/
Disallow: /mlt/
Disallow: /vrt/
Disallow: /brw/
Disallow: /feed/
Disallow: /csc/
Disallow: /gwc/
Disallow: /gold-and-silver/
Disallow: /hcp/
Disallow: /ipod/
Disallow: /nintendo-ds/
Disallow: /today/
Disallow: /trylater/
Disallow: /vsp/
Disallow: /ws/
Disallow: /mla/
Disallow: /lvx/
Disallow: /mys/
Disallow: /talk/
Disallow: /sch/ctg/
Disallow: /prp/
Disallow: /urw/write-review/
Disallow: /clt/store/
Disallow: /itc/
Disallow: /lit/
Disallow: /sl/node
Disallow: /edc/

# Guides sitemaps
Sitemap: http://www.ebay.com/lst/GUIDES-0-index.xml


# SSRP sitemaps
Sitemap: http://www.ebay.com/lst/SSRP-0-index.xml

#Stores Sitemaps
Sitemap: http://www.ebay.com/lst/STORES-0-index.xml

#BHP Sitemaps
Sitemap: http://www.ebay.com/lst/BHP-0-index.xml

#VI
Sitemap: http://www.ebay.com/lst/VI-0-index.xml

#PRP
Sitemap: http://www.ebay.com/lst/PRP-0-index.xml

#RPP
Sitemap: http://www.ebay.com/lst/RPP-0-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.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/ebay.com