faz.net: what it tells AI crawlers

On 28 October 2026, faz.net's robots.txt fully blocked GPTBot, Google-Extended and CCBot.

Last verified 2026-10-29 03:59 UTC (daily run of 2026-10-28). Proof for that day.

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robots.txt

ok (HTTP 200) · https://www.faz.net/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-28 · sha256 ded0c6d3d30cb963… · view as recorded

The * group

partial applies to every agent without its own group

Per AI bot, 2026-10-28

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robots.txt as recorded sha256 3223f3f0882638d4…

# robots.txt updated 2024-08-01

User-agent: *
Disallow: /json/
Disallow: /cmlink/
Disallow: /premiumContent
Disallow: /*.pdf
Disallow: /js/adobe/at.js
Disallow: */memo-api-add/
Disallow: */memo-api-remove/
Disallow: */memo-api-ask/
Disallow: /redaktion?cache
Disallow: *mostclicked.gfn
Disallow: /;suche=artikelsuche/suche/
Disallow: /suche/
Disallow: *?sort=
Disallow: /dist/scripts/main_faz-comment.js
Disallow: /html-ajax*
Disallow: /livewire*
Disallow: *atarget.js
Disallow: */sport-ergebnisse/*/ma*/$
Disallow: */sport-ergebnisse/*/co*/$
Disallow: /api/collect/

Disallow: /allesbeste/*?s=*
Disallow: /allesbeste/*&s=*
Disallow: */asset-comment-info/*
Disallow: /membership/*
Disallow: /kaufkompass/wp-admin/
Disallow: /kaufkompass/newsticker/
Disallow: /kaufkompass/wp-content/ab_api_cache/*
Disallow: /kaufkompass/search/
Disallow: /kaufkompass/*?p=*
Disallow: /kaufkompass/*&p=*
Disallow: /kaufkompass/*&preview=*
Allow: /kaufkompass/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php


User-agent: Meltwater
Disallow: /

User-agent: NewsNow
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bloodhound
Disallow: /

User-agent: cydralspider
Disallow: /

User-agent: downloadexpress
Disallow: /

User-agent: gammaSpider
Disallow: /

User-agent: ObjectsSearch
Disallow: /

User-agent: Pimptrain
Disallow: /

User-agent: Raven
Disallow: /

User-agent: wapspider
Disallow: /

User-agent: WebZinger
Disallow: /

User-agent: Fasterfox
Disallow: /

User-agent: sentibot
Disallow: /

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-Agent: omgili
Disallow: /

User-Agent: omgilibot
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: Diffbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: YouBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /

# Legal notice: faz.net expressly reserves the right to use its content for commercial text and data mining (§44 b UrhG).
# The use of robots or other automated means to access faz.net or collect or mine data without the express permission of faz.net is strictly prohibited.
# faz.net may, in its discretion, permit certain automated access to certain faz.net pages.
# If you would like to apply for permission to crawl faz.net, collect or use data, please email nutzungsrechte@faz.de.

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 faz.net 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/faz.net