hp.com: what it tells AI crawlers

On 28 October 2026, hp.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.

Panel
top 1k (Tranco)
robots.txt
ok (HTTP 200) · https://www.hp.com/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-26 · sha256 05a4d45bf1934322… · view as recorded
The * group
allows applies to every agent without its own group

Per AI bot, 2026-10-28

User agentVerdictHow
GPTBotallowsnamed in its own group
OAI-SearchBotallowsnamed in its own group
ChatGPT-Userallowsnamed in its own group
ClaudeBotallowsnamed in its own group
Claude-SearchBotallowsnamed in its own group
Claude-Userallowsnamed in its own group
PerplexityBotallowsnamed in its own group
Perplexity-Userallowsnamed in its own group
Googlebotallowsthrough the * group
Google-Extendedallowsnamed in its own group
Applebot-Extendedallowsthrough the * group
CCBotallowsthrough the * group
Bytespiderallowsthrough the * group
Meta-ExternalAgentallowsthrough the * group
Amazonbotallowsthrough the * group
OAI-AdsBotallowsnamed in its own group

Other signals

Publishes /llms.txtno
Publishes /ai.txtno
Publishes /.well-known/tdmrep.jsonno
Reserves TDM rights (TDMRep file, header or meta)no
Declares Content Signals (robots.txt or header)no
Says ai-train=no in a Content Signalno
Points to an RSL licence (robots.txt License line or Link header)no
Answers with an x402 payment offer (lower bound: only the homepage is probed)no
Answers HTTP 402 Payment Required (lower bound: only the homepage is probed)no
Sends noai / noimageai directivesno
Refused our fetcher (403 / challenge)no

robots.txt as recorded sha256 1e814d48d651d275…

# robots.txt v 6.19.1 June 2019
#
# Comments & revision requests should be sent to HP SEO Forum hp-seo-forum [at] hp.com
# robots.txt file for www8.hp.com & www.hp.com
#
# Format is:
#       User-agent: <name of bot>
#       Disallow: <nothing> | <path>
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------


User-agent:   *
Allow: /


Disallow: */search-results
Disallow: */find.do
Disallow: */video-gallery/
Disallow: /media/
Disallow: */filter.do
Disallow: */search.do
Disallow: */index.do
Disallow: */details.do
Disallow: */assets/*
Disallow: */mpc/*
Disallow: */upp/*


# Sitemaps
Sitemap:   https://www8.hp.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap:   https://www8.hp.com/sitemap-product-catalog.xml
Sitemap:   https://www8.hp.com/sitemap-hreflang-global-10k-1.xml
Sitemap:   https://www8.hp.com/sitemap-hreflang-global-10k-2.xml
Sitemap:   https://www8.hp.com/sitemap-hreflang-global-10k-3.xml
Sitemap:   https://www8.hp.com/sitemap-hreflang-global-10k-4.xml

robots.txt versions

FromThroughStateVersion
2026-10-262026-10-28ok 20005a4d45bf193

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.hp.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2025-09-15 CC-MAIN-2025-38www.hp.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2024-09-16 CC-MAIN-2024-38www2.hp.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2023-10-02 CC-MAIN-2023-40www1.hp.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2022-10-03 CC-MAIN-2022-40www8.hp.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2021-09-27 CC-MAIN-2021-39www8.hp.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2020-09-28 CC-MAIN-2020-40www8.hp.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2019-09-23 CC-MAIN-2019-39www8.hp.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2018-10-22 CC-MAIN-2018-43www8.hp.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2018-09-24 CC-MAIN-2018-39www8.hp.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2018-07-23 CC-MAIN-2018-30www8.hp.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2018-04-23 CC-MAIN-2018-17www8.hp.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2018-01-29 CC-MAIN-2018-05www8.hp.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2017-10-23 CC-MAIN-2017-43www8.hp.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2017-09-25 CC-MAIN-2017-39www8.hp.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2017-07-24 CC-MAIN-2017-30www8.hp.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2017-04-24 CC-MAIN-2017-17hp.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2017-01-23 CC-MAIN-2017-04www8.hp.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2016-10-03 CC-MAIN-2016-40hp.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2016-09-05 CC-MAIN-2016-36hp.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows

Evidence

Every daily observation of hp.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/hp.com