elpais.com: what it tells AI crawlers
On 27 October 2026, elpais.com's robots.txt fully blocked ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, 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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- top 1k (Tranco)
- robots.txt
- ok (HTTP 200) · https://elpais.com/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-26 · sha2567f5346154ef69578…· 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 | allows | through the * group |
| OAI-SearchBot | allows | through the * group |
| ChatGPT-User | allows | through the * 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 | allows | through the * group |
| Applebot-Extended | allows | through the * group |
| CCBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Bytespider | blocks | named in its own group |
| Meta-ExternalAgent | allows | through the * group |
| Amazonbot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Amzn-SearchBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Amzn-User | blocks | named in its own group |
| DeepSeekBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| DuckAssistBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| ExaBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| LinerBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| MistralAI-User | blocks | named in its own group |
| omgilibot | blocks | named in its own group |
| PetalBot | 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) | not observed |
| Declares Content Signals (robots.txt or header) | not observed |
| Says ai-train=no in a Content Signal | not observed |
| Points to an RSL licence (robots.txt License line or Link header) | not observed |
| Answers with an x402 payment offer (lower bound: only the homepage is probed) | not observed |
| Answers HTTP 402 Payment Required (lower bound: only the homepage is probed) | not observed |
| Sends noai / noimageai directives | not observed |
| Refused our fetcher (403 / challenge) | no |
robots.txt as recorded sha256 5af61f62959c2df1…
User-agent: PetalBot Disallow: / # Bloque bots global confirmado 20260505 User-agent: bedrock-agentcore-browser Disallow: / User-agent: Amazon-Bot Disallow: / User-agent: Amazonbot Disallow: / User-agent: AmazonProductDiscoveryBot Disallow: / User-agent: Amzn-SearchBot Disallow: / User-agent: Amzn-User Disallow: / User-agent: Arquivo-web-crawler Disallow: / User-agent: bnf.fr_bot Disallow: / User-agent: Bytespider Disallow: / User-agent: Claude-Extension Disallow: / User-agent: ClaudeBot Disallow: / User-agent: Claude-User Disallow: / User-agent: Claude-SearchBot Disallow: / User-agent: Comet Disallow: / User-agent: CloudFlare-AlwaysOnline Disallow: / User-agent: Cloudflare-Healthchecks Disallow: / User-agent: CloudflareBrowserRendering Disallow: / User-agent: Cloudflare-Radar Disallow: / User-agent: CCBot Disallow: / User-agent: DeepSeekBot Disallow: / User-agent: DuckAssistBot Disallow: / User-agent: archive.org_bot Disallow: / User-agent: ia_archiver Disallow: / User-agent: MistralAI-User Disallow: / User-agent: Moreover Disallow: / User-agent: Adbeat Disallow: / User-agent: Argus Disallow: / User-agent: Baiduspider Disallow: / User-agent: Baiduspider-image Disallow: / User-agent: Bitdefender Disallow: / User-agent: Blogtrottr Disallow: / User-agent: BloombergBot Disallow: / User-agent: BoardReader Disallow: / User-agent: checkmy.ws Disallow: / User-agent: Clickagy Disallow: / User-agent: CookieBot Disallow: / User-agent: cXensebot Disallow: / User-agent: DataObserver Disallow: / User-agent: DomainStatsBot Disallow: / User-agent: Embedly Disallow: / User-agent: Feedspotbot Disallow: / User-agent: FlipboardProxy Disallow: / User-agent: Getintent Disallow: / User-agent: Google-Apps-Script Disallow: / User-agent: GoogleDrive Disallow: / User-agent: Grapevine6 Disallow: / User-agent: Gumgum Disallow: / User-agent: HaloBot Disallow: / User-agent: HubSpot Crawler Disallow: / User-agent: IbouBot Disallow: / User-agent: Inout Disallow: / User-agent: LinerBot Disallow: / User-agent: MJ12bot Disallow: / User-agent: Manus Disallow: / User-agent: Meltwater Disallow: / User-agent: Metajob Disallow: / User-agent: Muckrack Disallow: / User-agent: NetSeer Disallow: / User-agent: Netvibes Disallow: / User-agent: Onyphe Disallow: / User-agent: OpenClaw Disallow: / User-agent: Opoint Disallow: / User-agent: OutbrainBot Disallow: / User-agent: PlumAnalytics Disallow: / User-agent: ProSitemaps Disallow: / User-agent: PerplexityBot Disallow: / User-agent: Perplexity-User Disallow: / User-agent: proximic Disallow: / User-agent: PubMatic Disallow: / User-agent: Quantcastbot Disallow: / User-agent: SearchConcepts Disallow: / User-agent: Semantic-Visions Disallow: / User-agent: SentiBot Disallow: / User-agent: Sindup Disallow: / User-agent: Sirdata Disallow: / User-agent: SmartologyBot Disallow: / User-agent: Superfeedr Disallow: / User-agent: surlybot Disallow: / User-agent: Synaptive Disallow: / User-agent: TinEye Disallow: / User-agent: Trendiction Disallow: / User-agent: TurnitinBot Disallow: / User-agent: Ubermetrics Disallow: / User-agent: Vebidoo Disallow: / User-agent: Webcorp Disallow: / User-agent: Weborama Disallow: / User-agent: WebPageTest Disallow: / User-agent: YandexAccessibilityBot Disallow: / User-agent: YandexDirect Disallow: / User-agent: YandexDirectDyn Disallow: / User-agent: YaDirectFetcher Disallow: / User-agent: YandexFavicons Disallow: / User-agent: YandexMetrika Disallow: / User-agent: YandexMobileBot Disallow: / User-agent: YandexNews Disallow: / User-agent: YandexRCA Disallow: / User-agent: YandexRenderResourcesBot Disallow: / User-agent: YandexUserproxy Disallow: / # OAI-AdsBot se mantiene permitido y no se bloquea. User-agent: * Disallow: /pruebas/ Disallow: /publicidad/ Disallow: /notificarelacionadas Disallow: /*.swf$ Disallow: /eskupTSUpdate Disallow: /ThreadeskupSimple Disallow: /OuteskupSimple # Anadidos 20250325 por oscarf Disallow: /Ineskup Disallow: /Outeskup Disallow: /OuteskupSimpleMustache Disallow: /Msgeskup Disallow: /Profileeskup Disallow: /Threadeskup # Disallow: /.well-known/amphtml/ Disallow: /t/ Disallow: *?preview=true$ # Bots bloqueados 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: 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: 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: 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: Offline Explorer Disallow: / User-agent: omgilibot Disallow: / User-agent: Orthogaffe Disallow: / User-agent: PiplBot Disallow: / User-agent: Pixray-Seeker Disallow: / User-agent: psbot Disallow: / User-agent: QuerySeekerSpider 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: Spinn3r Disallow: / User-agent: Teleport Disallow: / User-agent: TeleportPro Disallow: / User-agent: trendictionbot Disallow: / User-agent: trovitBot 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: /
robots.txt versions
| From | Through | State | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-26 | 2026-10-27 | ok 200 | 7f5346154ef6 |
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 | elpais.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | blocks | blocks | unknown | blocks |
| 2025-09-15 CC-MAIN-2025-38 | elpais.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2024-09-16 CC-MAIN-2024-38 | elpais.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2023-10-02 CC-MAIN-2023-40 | elpais.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2022-10-03 CC-MAIN-2022-40 | elpais.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2021-09-27 CC-MAIN-2021-39 | elpais.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2020-09-28 CC-MAIN-2020-40 | elpais.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2019-09-23 CC-MAIN-2019-39 | elpais.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2018-09-24 CC-MAIN-2018-39 | elpais.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-09-25 CC-MAIN-2017-39 | elpais.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-07-24 CC-MAIN-2017-30 | elpais.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-04-24 CC-MAIN-2017-17 | elpais.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-01-23 CC-MAIN-2017-04 | elpais.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2016-10-03 CC-MAIN-2016-40 | elpais.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2016-09-05 CC-MAIN-2016-36 | elpais.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
Evidence
Every daily observation of elpais.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/elpais.com