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.

Panel
top 10k (Tranco)
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

User agentVerdictHow
GPTBotblocksnamed in its own group
OAI-SearchBotpartialthrough the * group
ChatGPT-Userpartialthrough the * group
ClaudeBotpartialthrough the * group
Claude-SearchBotpartialthrough the * group
Claude-Userpartialthrough the * group
PerplexityBotpartialthrough the * group
Perplexity-Userpartialthrough the * group
Googlebotpartialthrough the * group
Google-Extendedblocksnamed in its own group
Applebot-Extendedpartialthrough the * group
CCBotblocksnamed in its own group
Bytespiderpartialthrough the * group
Meta-ExternalAgentpartialthrough the * group
Amazonbotpartialthrough the * group
omgiliblocksnamed in its own group
omgilibotblocksnamed in its own group

Other signals

Publishes /llms.txtno
Publishes /ai.txtno
Publishes /.well-known/tdmrep.jsonno
Reserves TDM rights (TDMRep file, header or meta)no
Declares Content Signals (robots.txt or header)no
Says ai-train=no in a Content Signalno
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 directivesno
Refused our fetcher (403 / challenge)no

robots.txt as recorded sha256 e8cb2cb762f8c11d…

# robots.txt updated 2018-12-13

User-agent: *
Disallow: /p/
Disallow: /hilfe/2.335/was-passiert-wenn-ich-keine-cookies-akzeptiere-111553.html
Disallow: /*json*
Disallow: /*komsuch*
Disallow: /d/login/
Disallow: /*msrv*
Disallow: /print/
Disallow: /m/*.swf
Disallow: /*Doc~EB091BDD20148490F90F04EE30133DC40~*
Disallow: /*-1437134.html*
Disallow: /*old4delete/*
Disallow: /cmlink/
Disallow: /premiumContent
Disallow: /followAjaxCall/
Disallow: /unfollowAjaxCall/
Disallow: /lw3dgf*qxdtpz/
Disallow: /*.pdf
Disallow: /*.swf
Disallow: /preview/www/
Disallow: /js/adobe/at.js

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: /

robots.txt versions

FromThroughStateVersion
2026-10-282026-10-28ok 200ded0c6d3d30cdiff with previous
2026-10-262026-10-27ok 200e0b697f51248

Timeline of changes

DateWhat changed
2026-10-28robots.txt changed
2026-10-28now partly blocks AI2Bot (was allow)
2026-10-28now partly blocks AI2Bot-DeepResearchEval (was allow)
2026-10-28now partly blocks Ai2Bot-Dolma (was allow)
2026-10-28now partly blocks Amazonbot (was block)
2026-10-28now partly blocks anthropic-ai (was block)
2026-10-28now partly blocks Applebot-Extended (was block)
2026-10-28now partly blocks bigsur.ai (was allow)
2026-10-28now partly blocks Bytespider (was block)
2026-10-28now partly blocks ChatGPT-User (was block)
2026-10-28now partly blocks Claude-SearchBot (was block)
2026-10-28now partly blocks Claude-User (was block)
2026-10-28now partly blocks Claude-Web (was block)
2026-10-28now partly blocks ClaudeBot (was block)
2026-10-28now partly blocks CloudVertexBot (was block)
2026-10-28now partly blocks cohere-ai (was block)
2026-10-28now partly blocks cohere-training-data-crawler (was block)
2026-10-28now partly blocks DeepSeekBot (was block)
2026-10-28now partly blocks Devin (was block)
2026-10-28now partly blocks Diffbot (was block)
2026-10-28now partly blocks DuckAssistBot (was block)
2026-10-28now partly blocks Googlebot (was allow)
2026-10-28now partly blocks GoogleOther (was allow)
2026-10-28now partly blocks Kangaroo Bot (was allow)
2026-10-28now partly blocks LinerBot (was block)
2026-10-28now partly blocks Meta-ExternalAgent (was block)
2026-10-28now partly blocks MistralAI-User (was block)
2026-10-28now partly blocks MistralAI-User/1.0 (was allow)
2026-10-28now partly blocks OAI-SearchBot (was block)
2026-10-28now partly blocks PanguBot (was block)
2026-10-28now partly blocks Perplexity-User (was allow)
2026-10-28now partly blocks PerplexityBot (was block)
2026-10-28now partly blocks PetalBot (was block)
2026-10-28now partly blocks Timpibot (was block)
2026-10-28now partly blocks YouBot (was block)
2026-10-28now partly blocks every agent without its own group (*) (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.

CrawlHostStateGPTBotOAI-SearchBotChatGPT-UserClaudeBotClaude-SearchBotClaude-UserPerplexityBot
2026-09-21 CC-MAIN-2026-39www.faz.netok viewblocksblocksunknownblocksblocksunknownblocks
2025-09-15 CC-MAIN-2025-38www.faz.netok viewblocksallowsunknownblocksallowsunknownblocks
2024-09-16 CC-MAIN-2024-38www.faz.netok viewblocksallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownblocks
2023-10-02 CC-MAIN-2023-40www.faz.netok viewblockspartialunknownpartialpartialunknownpartial
2022-10-03 CC-MAIN-2022-40www.faz.netok viewpartialpartialunknownpartialpartialunknownpartial
2021-09-27 CC-MAIN-2021-39www.faz.netok viewpartialpartialunknownpartialpartialunknownpartial
2020-09-28 CC-MAIN-2020-40www.faz.netok viewpartialpartialunknownpartialpartialunknownpartial
2019-09-23 CC-MAIN-2019-39www.faz.netok viewpartialpartialunknownpartialpartialunknownpartial
2018-09-24 CC-MAIN-2018-39www.faz.netok viewpartialpartialunknownpartialpartialunknownpartial
2018-01-29 CC-MAIN-2018-05www.faz.netok viewpartialpartialunknownpartialpartialunknownpartial
2017-10-23 CC-MAIN-2017-43www.faz.netok viewpartialpartialunknownpartialpartialunknownpartial
2017-09-25 CC-MAIN-2017-39www.faz.netok viewpartialpartialunknownpartialpartialunknownpartial
2017-07-24 CC-MAIN-2017-30www.faz.netok viewpartialpartialunknownpartialpartialunknownpartial
2017-04-24 CC-MAIN-2017-17faz.netok viewpartialpartialunknownpartialpartialunknownpartial
2017-01-23 CC-MAIN-2017-04www.faz.netok viewpartialpartialunknownpartialpartialunknownpartial
2016-10-03 CC-MAIN-2016-40www.faz.netok viewpartialpartialunknownpartialpartialunknownpartial
2016-09-05 CC-MAIN-2016-36faz.netok viewpartialpartialunknownpartialpartialunknownpartial

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 (pending (4 calendars)).

API: https://infrarabbit.com/crawlers/api/v1/policy/faz.net