flipkart.com: what it tells AI crawlers

On 28 October 2026, flipkart.com's robots.txt allowed all of 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.

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robots.txt

ok (HTTP 200) · https://www.flipkart.com/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-26 · sha256 e86fb1833717792a… · view as recorded

The * group

allows applies to every agent without its own group

Per AI bot, 2026-10-28

Other signals

robots.txt as recorded sha256 1f5242b623fb187e…

User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
Disallow:

User-agent: Adsbot-Google
Disallow:

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow:

# cart
User-agent: *
Disallow: /viewcart

# Something related to carousel and recommendation carousel
User-agent: *
Disallow: /dynamic/

# Permanent Link For Individual Review
User-agent: *
Disallow: /reviews/

# Old Browse Page Experience
User-agent: *
Disallow: /store/

# Affiliate Widget
User-agent: *
Disallow: /affiliateWidget/

# Social Connect Redirects
User-agent: *
Disallow: /sc/

# Product Seller Pages
User-agent: *
Disallow: /ps/

#Search Pages
User-agent: *
Disallow: /search?

# Temporary Hack
User-agent: *
Disallow: /ph/search/

#Alliances Pages
User-agent: *
Disallow: /alliances/

# Faceted pages
User-agent: *
Disallow: /*=facets*

# URL parameters blocking for SEO
User-agent: *
Disallow: /*?affid=
Disallow: /*&affid=
Disallow: /*?q=
Disallow: /*&q=
Disallow: /*?layout=
Disallow: /*&layout=
Disallow: /*?sizeSelected=
Disallow: /*&sizeSelected=
Disallow: /*?p%5B0%5D=
Disallow: /*&p%5B0%5D=
Disallow: /*?primarySection=
Disallow: /*&primarySection=
Disallow: /*?colorSelected=
Disallow: /*&colorSelected=
Disallow: /*?icmpid=
Disallow: /*&icmpid=
Disallow: /sellers?
Disallow: /*/write-review/
Disallow: /seller/


# Faceted pages
User-agent: *
Disallow: /*=facets*

# AMP Pages
User-agent: *
Disallow: /amp/

Sitemap: http://www.flipkart.com/sitemap_s_store-browse.xml
Sitemap: http://www.flipkart.com/sitemap_v_view-browse.xml
Sitemap: http://www.flipkart.com/sitemap_p_product_index_1.xml
Sitemap: http://www.flipkart.com/sitemap_p_product_index_2.xml
Sitemap: http://www.flipkart.com/sitemap_p_product_index_3.xml
Sitemap: http://www.flipkart.com/sitemap_p_product_index_4.xml

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 flipkart.com 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/flipkart.com