gstatic.com: what it tells AI crawlers

On 27 October 2026, gstatic.com's robots.txt allowed all of 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.

Panel
top 1k (Tranco)
robots.txt
ok (HTTP 200) · https://www.gstatic.com/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-26 · sha256 8c4889928ff7cb4f… · view as recorded
The * group
partial applies to every agent without its own group

Per AI bot, 2026-10-27

User agentVerdictHow
GPTBotpartialthrough the * 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-Extendedpartialthrough the * group
Applebot-Extendedpartialthrough the * group
CCBotpartialthrough the * group
Bytespiderpartialthrough the * group
Meta-ExternalAgentpartialthrough the * group
Amazonbotpartialthrough the * group

Other signals

Publishes /llms.txtnot observed
Publishes /ai.txtnot observed
Publishes /.well-known/tdmrep.jsonno
Reserves TDM rights (TDMRep file, header or meta)not observed
Declares Content Signals (robots.txt or header)not observed
Says ai-train=no in a Content Signalnot observed
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 directivesnot observed
Refused our fetcher (403 / challenge)no

robots.txt as recorded sha256 2312e431d13ad85e…

User-agent: *
Allow: /_/boq/
Allow: /_/boq-play/
Allow: /_/compare-banking/
Allow: /_/compare-insurance/
Allow: /_/fonts/
Allow: /_/pantheon/
Allow: /_/play/
Allow: /_/gstore/
Allow: /_/ain/_/js/
Allow: /ac/
Allow: /actions/news/rss/
Allow: /ads/learn/
Allow: /ads/local/
Allow: /ads/gpa/vidgen/
Allow: /ads/research/
Allow: /ads/ubaq/
Allow: /android/market/
Allow: /android/market_images/
Allow: /compare/
Allow: /chrome/crlset/
Allow: /cloud-launcher/sitemap/
Allow: /commercesearch/images/
Allow: /communities/sitemap/
Allow: /culturalinstitute/images/
Allow: /culturalinstitute/sitemaps/
Allow: /docs/forms/social/
Allow: /docs/socialmarkup/
Allow: /dictionary/static/sitemaps/
Allow: /droidguard/
Allow: /enterprise-partner-search/sitemaps/
Allow: /external_hosted/
Allow: /frommers/
Allow: /gb/images/
Allow: /glass/images/commerce/
Allow: /GoogleInternetAuthority/
Allow: /healthricherkp/illustrations/
Allow: /history/static/
Allow: /identity/accountsettingsactivityweb/
Allow: /identity/accountsettingssyaf/
Allow: /images
Allow: /inproduct_help/chatsupport/
Allow: /mapspro/
Allow: /moderator/static/ux/
Allow: /patent-search/frontend/
Allow: /play/store/web/
Allow: /politics/e/sharing/
Allow: /psb/udc/
Allow: /s2/oz/
Allow: /s2/sitemaps/
Allow: /sites/
Allow: /sitemaps/
Allow: /social/photosui/sitemap/
Allow: /support/content/
Allow: /trends/websites/sitemaps/
Allow: /trustedstores/images/
Allow: /trustedstores/js/
Allow: /tv/thumb/
Allow: /ui/
Allow: /icons/
Allow: /js/
Allow: /ss/
Allow: *.js
Allow: *.css

Disallow: /

robots.txt versions

FromThroughStateVersion
2026-10-262026-10-27ok 2008c4889928ff7

Timeline of changes

DateWhat changed
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.

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

Evidence

Every daily observation of gstatic.com 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/gstatic.com