elmundo.es: what it tells AI crawlers
On 28 October 2026, elmundo.es's robots.txt fully blocked 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 10k (Tranco)
- robots.txt
- ok (HTTP 200) · https://www.elmundo.es/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-27 · sha256c66e0723179e0a96…· 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 | blocks | named in its own group |
| OAI-SearchBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| ChatGPT-User | blocks | named in its own group |
| ClaudeBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Claude-SearchBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Claude-User | blocks | named in its own group |
| PerplexityBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Perplexity-User | blocks | named in its own group |
| Googlebot | allows | through the * group |
| Google-Extended | blocks | named in its own 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 |
| Claude-Web | blocks | named in its own group |
| cohere-ai | blocks | named in its own group |
| cohere-training-data-crawler | blocks | named in its own group |
| Diffbot | blocks | named in its own group |
| DuckAssistBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| ExaBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Google-CloudVertexBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| ImagesiftBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| meta-externalfetcher | blocks | named in its own group |
| MistralAI-User | blocks | named in its own group |
| omgili | blocks | named in its own group |
| omgilibot | blocks | named in its own group |
| PanguBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Timpibot | blocks | named in its own group |
| YouBot | 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 59bab96991227183…
User-agent: * Disallow: /1998/ Disallow: /2002/ Disallow: /s/ Disallow: /cgi-bin/ Disallow: /perl/ Disallow: /foros/ Disallow: /yodona/hemeroteca/ Disallow: /metropoli/hemeroteca/ Disallow: /eventos/en-directo/*.json Disallow: /eventos/en-directo/resources.html* Disallow: /noticias/envia_noticia.html Disallow: /enviaropinion.html?* Disallow: /apw.js* Disallow: */pruebas-abierto/* Disallow: */elmundo/hemeroteca/*/*/*/*/* Allow: */elmundo/hemeroteca/*/*/*/*/index* # Bloqueo de bots y crawlers poco útiles User-agent: GPTBot Disallow: / User-agent: CCBot Disallow: / User-agent: anthropic-ai Disallow: / User-agent: ChatGPT-User Disallow: / User-agent: 008 Disallow: / User-agent: AddThis.com Disallow: / User-agent: admantx Disallow: / User-agent: AhrefsBot Disallow: / User-agent: BDCbot Disallow: / User-agent: Bender Disallow: / User-agent: BIXOCRAWLER Disallow: / User-agent: bl.uk_lddc_bot Disallow: / User-agent: BLEXBot Disallow: / User-agent: BUbiNG Disallow: / User-agent: Cliqzbot Disallow: / User-agent: CNCDialer Disallow: / User-agent: crawler4j Disallow: / User-agent: CrystalSemanticsBot Disallow: / User-agent: CyberAlert Disallow: / User-agent: DigExt Disallow: / User-agent: discobot Disallow: / User-agent: discoverybot Disallow: / User-agent: dloader Disallow: / User-agent: dloader(NaverRobot) Disallow: / User-agent: DOC Disallow: / User-agent: dotbot Disallow: / User-agent: Download Ninja Disallow: / User-agent: DTS Agent Disallow: / User-agent: Exabot Disallow: / User-agent: Ezooms Disallow: / User-agent: FairShare Disallow: / User-agent: Fetch Disallow: / User-agent: Flamingo_SearchEngine Disallow: / User-agent: Genieo Disallow: / User-agent: Gigabot Disallow: / User-agent: grub-client Disallow: / User-agent: Heritrix Disallow: / User-agent: heritrix/3.3.0 Disallow: / User-agent: HTTrack Disallow: / User-agent: ia_archiver Disallow: / User-agent: integromedb Disallow: / User-agent: IstellaBot Disallow: / User-agent: JikeSpider Disallow: / User-agent: Jyxobot Disallow: / User-agent: k2spider Disallow: / User-agent: Kimengi Disallow: / User-agent: Kimengi/nineconnections.com Disallow: / User-agent: larbin Disallow: / User-agent: LexxeBot/1.0 Disallow: / User-agent: libwww Disallow: / User-agent: linko Disallow: / User-agent: Livelapbot Disallow: / User-agent: magpie-crawler Disallow: / User-agent: Maxthon Disallow: / User-agent: MetaURI Disallow: / User-agent: Microsoft.URL.Control Disallow: / User-agent: MJ12bot Disallow: / User-agent: Moreover Disallow: / User-agent: Moreoverbot Disallow: / User-agent: MSIECrawler Disallow: / User-agent: nabot Disallow: / User-agent: NaverBot Disallow: / User-agent: NerdByNature.Bot Disallow: / User-agent: netEstate NE Crawler Disallow: / User-agent: NetSeer crawler Disallow: / User-agent: Newscan Disallow: / User-agent: NextGenSearchBot Disallow: / User-agent: NPBot Disallow: / User-agent: nutch Disallow: / User-agent: OAI-SearchBot Disallow: / User-agent: Offline Explorer Disallow: / User-agent: omgilibot Disallow: / User-agent: Orthogaffe Disallow: / User-agent: PiplBot Disallow: / User-agent: Pixray-Seeker Disallow: / User-agent: proximic Disallow: / User-agent: psbot Disallow: / User-agent: QuerySeekerSpider Disallow: / User-agent: rogerbot Disallow: / User-agent: seokicks Disallow: / User-agent: SEOkicks-Robot Disallow: / User-agent: SiteBot Disallow: / User-agent: SiteBot/0.1 Disallow: / User-agent: sitecheck.internetseer.com Disallow: / User-agent: SiteSnagger Disallow: / User-agent: Slurp Disallow: / User-agent: sogou Disallow: / User-agent: Sosospider Disallow: / User-agent: spbot Disallow: / User-agent: Spinn3r Disallow: / User-agent: Teleport Disallow: / User-agent: TeleportPro Disallow: / User-agent: trendictionbot Disallow: / User-agent: trovitBot Disallow: / User-agent: TurnitinBot Disallow: / User-agent: UbiCrawler Disallow: / User-agent: uMBot-LN Disallow: / User-agent: UnisterBot Disallow: / User-agent: UniversalFeedParser Disallow: / User-agent: WBSearchBot Disallow: / User-agent: WebCopier Disallow: / User-agent: WebReaper Disallow: / User-agent: WebStripper Disallow: / User-agent: WebZIP Disallow: / User-agent: WeSEE:Search Disallow: / User-agent: wget Disallow: / User-agent: Wotbot Disallow: / User-agent: wotbox Disallow: / User-agent: Xenu Disallow: / User-agent: Yasni Disallow: / User-agent: Zao Disallow: / User-agent: Zealbot Disallow: / User-agent: ZyBORG Disallow: / User-agent: GPTBot Disallow: / User-agent: CCBot Disallow: / User-agent: anthropic-ai Disallow: / User-agent: ChatGPT-User Disallow: / User-agent: Google-Extended Disallow: /
robots.txt versions
| From | Through | State | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-27 | 2026-10-28 | ok 200 | c66e0723179e | diff with previous |
| 2026-10-26 | 2026-10-26 | ok 200 | 94820b263eb2 |
Timeline of changes
| Date | What changed |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-27 | robots.txt changed |
| 2026-10-27 | now blocks Amazonbot (was allow) |
| 2026-10-27 | now blocks Applebot-Extended (was allow) |
| 2026-10-27 | now blocks Bytespider (was allow) |
| 2026-10-27 | now blocks Claude-SearchBot (was allow) |
| 2026-10-27 | now blocks Claude-User (was allow) |
| 2026-10-27 | now blocks Claude-Web (was allow) |
| 2026-10-27 | now blocks ClaudeBot (was allow) |
| 2026-10-27 | now blocks cohere-ai (was allow) |
| 2026-10-27 | now blocks cohere-training-data-crawler (was allow) |
| 2026-10-27 | now blocks Diffbot (was allow) |
| 2026-10-27 | now blocks DuckAssistBot (was allow) |
| 2026-10-27 | now blocks Google-CloudVertexBot (was allow) |
| 2026-10-27 | now blocks ImagesiftBot (was allow) |
| 2026-10-27 | now blocks Meta-ExternalAgent (was allow) |
| 2026-10-27 | now blocks meta-externalfetcher (was allow) |
| 2026-10-27 | now blocks MistralAI-User (was allow) |
| 2026-10-27 | now blocks omgili (was allow) |
| 2026-10-27 | now blocks PanguBot (was allow) |
| 2026-10-27 | now blocks Perplexity-User (was allow) |
| 2026-10-27 | now blocks Timpibot (was allow) |
| 2026-10-27 | now blocks YouBot (was allow) |
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.elmundo.es | ok view | blocks | blocks | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | blocks |
| 2025-09-15 CC-MAIN-2025-38 | www.elmundo.es | ok view | blocks | blocks | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2024-09-16 CC-MAIN-2024-38 | www.elmundo.es | ok view | blocks | blocks | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2023-10-02 CC-MAIN-2023-40 | www.elmundo.es | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2022-10-03 CC-MAIN-2022-40 | www.elmundo.es | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2021-09-27 CC-MAIN-2021-39 | www.elmundo.es | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2020-09-28 CC-MAIN-2020-40 | www.elmundo.es | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2019-09-23 CC-MAIN-2019-39 | www.elmundo.es | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2018-10-22 CC-MAIN-2018-43 | www.elmundo.es | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2018-09-24 CC-MAIN-2018-39 | www2.elmundo.es | absent | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2018-07-23 CC-MAIN-2018-30 | www2.elmundo.es | absent | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2018-04-23 CC-MAIN-2018-17 | www2.elmundo.es | absent | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2018-01-29 CC-MAIN-2018-05 | elmundo.es | redirect-only | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown |
| 2017-10-23 CC-MAIN-2017-43 | www.elmundo.es | absent | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-09-25 CC-MAIN-2017-39 | www.elmundo.es | absent | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-07-24 CC-MAIN-2017-30 | elmundo.es | redirect-only | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown |
| 2017-04-24 CC-MAIN-2017-17 | www.elmundo.es | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-01-23 CC-MAIN-2017-04 | www.elmundo.es | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2016-10-03 CC-MAIN-2016-40 | www.elmundo.es | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2016-09-05 CC-MAIN-2016-36 | www.elmundo.es | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
Evidence
Every daily observation of elmundo.es 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/elmundo.es