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 dcac4997c54aea5d…

#$Header: robots.txt,v 1.19 2009/10/19 16:47:17 autreja Exp $ $Locker:  $

# robots.txt file for www.hp.com
# send e-mail to hp<dot>comOperations<at>hp<dot>com for updates or problems

User-agent:	*
Disallow:	/cgi-bin/
Disallow:	/info/
Disallow:	/JumpData/
Disallow:       /whpadmin/
Disallow:       /offweb/
Disallow:       /hho/res/us/en/
Sitemap: 	http://www.hp.com/google-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