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 e23cadbdd02bb4ba…
# All use of FT content is subject to the Terms & Conditions and
# Copyright Policy set out on FT.com
# We expressly prohibit any use of our content or data for any
# machine learning or artificial intelligence purposes, including
# the training or development of AI technologies or machine learning
# language models.
#
# For any licensing queries please contact content.licensing@ft.com
Sitemap: https://www.ft.com/sitemaps/index.xml
User-agent: *
Disallow: /__
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /advanced-search
Disallow: /offline/
Disallow: /myft/
Disallow: /cancel/
Disallow: /preferences/cookies
Disallow: /login
Allow: /__origami/
Allow: /__assets/
Crawl-Delay: 1
User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /
User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /
User-agent: omgili
Disallow: /
User-agent: omgilibot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /
User-agent: cohere-ai
Disallow: /
User-agent: magpie-crawler
Disallow: /
User-agent: NewsNow
Disallow: /
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Claude-Web
Disallow: /
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: FacebookBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /
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.
Every daily observation of ft.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)).