francetvinfo.fr: what it tells AI crawlers

On 27 October 2026, francetvinfo.fr's robots.txt fully blocked GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Google-Extended, 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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robots.txt

ok (HTTP 200) · https://www.franceinfo.fr/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-27 · sha256 d5c4437e72388e12… · view as recorded

The * group

allows applies to every agent without its own group

Per AI bot, 2026-10-27

Other signals

robots.txt as recorded sha256 d5c4437e72388e12…

User-agent: *
Sitemap: https://www.franceinfo.fr/sitemap_news.xml
Sitemap: https://www.franceinfo.fr/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.franceinfo.fr/sitemap_taxonomy.xml
Sitemap: https://www.franceinfo.fr/sitemap_searchdex.xml
Sitemap: https://www.franceinfo.fr/sitemap_video_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.franceinfo.fr/sitemap_image_index.xml

# Ressources
Disallow: /*.json

# Paths
# KIF-12235 et KIF-12064
Disallow: /profile/
Disallow: /mail/
Disallow: /user/
Disallow: /auth/
Disallow: /esi-block/
Disallow: /esi/www/taxonomy/
Disallow: /cgu.html
Disallow: /nous-contacter.html
Disallow: /charte-deontologique.html
Disallow: /webview/

# Live & Embed
# KIF-11915 et update KIF-12847
Disallow: /en-direct/message/
Disallow: /live/message/
Disallow: /live/iframe/
Disallow: /elections/carto/map-embed?
Disallow: /histogramme-us-elector-embed*.html

# Exams
# KIF-2234 et update KIF-12847
Disallow: /preview-examens/
Disallow: /*/recherche/?*
Disallow: /*/widget_recherche.html
Disallow: /*/*_resultat-eleve*.html

# Contents with queries
# KIF-10111 et update KIF-12847
Disallow: /*.html?callV1
Disallow: /*.html?google_editors_picks=
Disallow: /*.html?*twitter_impression=
Disallow: /*.html?Echobox=
Disallow: /*.html?fbclid=
Disallow: /*.html?gclid=
Disallow: /*.html?source=
Disallow: /*.html?mobile-app=
Disallow: /*.html?viewType=
Disallow: /*.html?title=
Disallow: /*.html?print=
Disallow: /*.html?*format=
Disallow: /*.html?noamp=
Disallow: /*.html?tblci=
Disallow: /*.html?fr=

###### Shuffle App ############

# Remove when ready for prod
Disallow: /shuffle-app/

###### Specific Policies ######

# Images
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Allow: /images/
Allow: /pictures/

# News
User-agent: Googlebot-News
Disallow: /archives/

# Flipboard
User-agent: Flipboard
Allow: /export/flipboard/*.rss

# LLM
# LLM
User-agent: AI2Bot
User-agent: AI2Bot-DeepResearchEval
User-agent: Ai2Bot-Dolma
User-agent: Amazonbot
User-agent: AmazonBuyForMe
User-agent: Amzn-SearchBot
User-agent: Amzn-User
User-agent: anthropic-ai
User-agent: Applebot
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
User-agent: AzureAI-SearchBot
User-agent: bigsur.ai
User-agent: Bytespider
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: ChatGLM
User-agent: ChatGLM-Spider
User-agent: ChatGPT-Operator
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: Claude-Code
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
User-agent: Claude-User
User-agent: Claude-Web
User-agent: CloudVertexBot
User-agent: cohere-ai
User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler
User-agent: Cotoyogi
User-agent: DataForSeoBot
User-agent: Datenbank Crawler
User-agent: DeepSeekBot
User-agent: Devin
User-agent: Diffbot
User-agent: DoubaoBot
User-agent: DuckAssistBot
User-agent: FacebookBot
User-Agent: FriendlyCrawler
User-agent: gemini-deep-research
User-agent: GoogleAgent-Mariner
User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot
User-agent: Google-Extended
User-agent: Google-NotebookLM
User-agent: GoogleOther
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: ICC-Crawler
User-agent: ImagesiftBot
User-agent: imageSpider
User-agent: img2dataset
User-agent: Kangaroo Bot
User-agent: KimiBot
User-agent: Kimi-SearchBot
User-agent: KlaviyoAIBot
User-agent: laion-huggingface-processor
User-agent: LCC
User-agent: LinerBot
User-agent: Manus-User
User-agent: meta-externalagent
User-agent: meta-externalfetcher
User-agent: meta-webindexer
User-agent: MistralAI-Index
User-agent: MistralAI-Training
User-agent: MistralAI-User
User-agent: netEstate
User-agent: netEstate Imprint Crawler
User-agent: NovaAct
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-agent: omgili
User-agent: Omgilibot
User-agent: OmigiliBot
User-agent: PanguBot
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: Perplexity-User
User-agent: PhindBot
User-agent: Poggio-Citations
User-agent: QualifiedBot
User-agent: SBIntuitionsBot
User-Agent: SemrushBot-SWA
User-agent: sider.ai
User-agent: Spider
User-agent: TavilyBot
User-agent: TheKnowledgeAI
User-agent: TimpiBot
User-agent: TwinAgent
User-agent: VelenPublicWebCrawler
User-agent: webzio-extended
User-agent: YouBot
User-agent: muse-
Disallow: /

# KIF-11933
User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /

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 francetvinfo.fr 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/francetvinfo.fr