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.

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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

Other signals

robots.txt as recorded sha256 65947a7bd3fb33bf…

User-agent: *
Allow: /_/aihub_pod/
Allow: /_/boq/
Allow: /_/boq-play/
Allow: /_/compare-banking/
Allow: /_/compare-insurance/
Allow: /_/fonts/
Allow: /_/mss/boq-geo/
Allow: /_/pantheon/
Allow: /_/play/
Allow: /_/pog/
Allow: /_/cloudsourcetools/
Allow: /_/devopsconsole/
Allow: /_/transparencyreport/
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: /audio_news/
Allow: /bfe/apps/website/
Allow: /compare/
Allow: /chrome/crlset/
Allow: /cloud-launcher/sitemap/
Allow: /cloudsourcetools/images/
Allow: /commercesearch/images/
Allow: /communities/sitemap/
Allow: /culturalinstitute/images/
Allow: /culturalinstitute/sitemaps/
Allow: /devopsconsole/images/
Allow: /docs/forms/social/
Allow: /docs/socialmarkup/
Allow: /dictionary/static/sitemaps/
Allow: /droidguard/
Allow: /earth/social/
Allow: /enterprise-partner-search/sitemaps/
Allow: /external_hosted/
Allow: /flights/
Allow: /frommers/
Allow: /gb/images/
Allow: /glass/images/commerce/
Allow: /gsx/
Allow: /GoogleInternetAuthority/
Allow: /healthricherkp/illustrations/
Allow: /healthricherkp/cropped/
Allow: /history/static/
Allow: /identity/accountsettingsactivityweb/
Allow: /identity/accountsettingssyaf/
Allow: /images
Allow: /inproduct_help/chatsupport/
Allow: /local/donut/
Allow: /mapspro/
Allow: /moderator/static/ux/
Allow: /og/
Allow: /onebox/media/sports/photos/soccer/wc2018/
Allow: /patent-search/frontend/
Allow: /pay/images/merchant_logos/
Allow: /pay/images/program_logos/
Allow: /play/store/web/
Allow: /podcasts/test-podcast/rss/
Allow: /politics/e/sharing/
Allow: /prettyearth/assets/
Allow: /psb/udc/
Allow: /s2/sitemaps/
Allow: /search-console/scfe/
Allow: /sites/
Allow: /sitemaps/
Allow: /social/photosui/images/
Allow: /social/photosui/sitemap/
Allow: /support/content/
Allow: /travel-vacations/
Allow: /touringbird/
Allow: /trends/
Allow: /trends_tpt/
Allow: /trustedstores/images/
Allow: /trustedstores/js/
Allow: /tv/thumb/
Allow: /ui/
Allow: /vr/*
Allow: /youtube/fonts/
Allow: /youtube/img/promos/
Allow: /icons/
Allow: /js/
Allow: /ss/
Allow: /*.js
Allow: /*.css
Allow: /*.svg

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 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