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

Other signals

robots.txt as recorded sha256 2ec7e98445c32f8d…

# robots.txt v 8.19.1 August 2019
# MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
# MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMWWWMMMWKdooodxkOKNWMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
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# 
# Keep Reinventing
#
# 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
Sitemap:   https://www8.hp.com/sitemap_index.xml

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 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