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.

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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

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robots.txt as recorded sha256 f31793b6fbd40d81…

# robots.txt v 08.2025.1
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# Keep Reinventing
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

# Store "/shop/" Disallow Statements -------------------------------------------
User-agent: *
Disallow: /shop/*ProductConfirmationView
Disallow: /*epp/
Disallow: /*LogonForm
Disallow: /*api/
Disallow: /us-en/shop/*orderstatusfinalresultview*?*
Disallow: /us-en/shop/SearchDisplay*
Disallow: /us-en/shop/sitesearch*
Disallow: /us-en/shop/MyAccountOrderStatusView*
Disallow: /us-en/shop/PDPStdView*
Disallow: /us-en/shop/*/OrderShippingBillingView*
Disallow: /us-en/shop/*rderCalculate*
Disallow: /us-en/shop/*/private-stores*
Disallow: /us-en/shop/accessoryattachview/
Disallow: /us-en/shop/*jax*rder*tem*isplay*iew*
Disallow: /us-en/shop/myaccountformview
Disallow: /us-en/shop/managemydevicesview
Disallow: /us-en/shop/myordersview
Disallow: /us-en/shop/ordervalidatecmd
Disallow: /us-en/shop/paypalgetexpresscheckout
Disallow: /us-en/shop/privateregister
Disallow: /us-en/shop/sendemailview
Disallow: /us-en/shop/topcategoriesdisplay
Disallow: /us-en/shop/userregistrationform
Disallow: /us-en/shop/userregistrationadd
Disallow: /webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/OrderStatusFinalResultView
Disallow: /us-en/shop/OrderStatusFinalResultView?*
Disallow: /*-prodlive*/us-en/shop*
Disallow: /*-prod-drlive*/us-en/shop*
Disallow: /*?bvstate=*
Disallow: /*bvroute*
Disallow: /*tab=vao
Disallow: /pdp/*Offer_id
Disallow: /us-en/shop/*matchtype
Disallow: /*urlRequestType
Disallow: /us-en/shop/*ups-sku
Disallow: /*=Other*
Disallow: /*rating=*
Disallow: /*availability=Out-of-Stock 
Disallow: /*newprod
Disallow: /bundles?override
Disallow: /ProductListingBatteryView?
Disallow: /*proxydirectory*
Disallow: /hpols_catalog/
# Disallow: /*orderBy
# Disallow: /*jumpid
# Disallow: /us-en/shop/*?*p*toreID=*
# Disallow: /*storeId=
# Disallow: /*StoreId=
# Disallow: /*storeID=
# Disallow: /*StoreID=
# Disallow: /*STOREID=
Allow: /*rating=5-9733-9733-9733-9733-9733-
Allow: /*rating=4-9733-9733-9733-9733-9734-Up,5-9733-9733-9733-9733-9733-

# General Disallow Statements ----------------------------------------------
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/

# US Store Facet Controls --------------------------------------------------
# Disallow: /us-en/shop/*;*;*;*
# Disallow: /us-en/shop/*=*,*

# APej & LATAM Store Facet Controls ----------------------------------------
Disallow: /hk-en/shop/*?*&*&*&*
Disallow: /hk-zh/shop/*?*&*&*&*
Disallow: /au-en/shop/*?*&*&*&*
Disallow: /my-en/shop/*?*&*&*&*
Disallow: /in-en/shop/*?*&*&*&*
Disallow: /id-en/shop/*?*&*&*&*
Disallow: /id-id/shop/*?*&*&*&*
Disallow: /th-en/shop/*?*&*&*&*
Disallow: /th-th/shop/*?*&*&*&*
Disallow: /kr-ko/shop/*?*&*&*&*
Disallow: /nz-en/shop/*?*&*&*&*
Disallow: /sg-en/shop/*?*&*&*&*
Disallow: /ar-es/shop/*?*&*&*&*
Disallow: /br-pt/shop/*?*&*&*&*
Disallow: /cl-es/shop/*?*&*&*&*
Disallow: /co-es/shop/*?*&*&*&*
Disallow: /mx-es/shop/*?*&*&*&*
Disallow: /pe-es/shop/*?*&*&*&*
Disallow: /sa-ar/shop/*?*&*&*&*
Disallow: /sa-en/shop/*?*&*&*&*

# Query parameter rules

# Disallow: */shop/?
Allow: /shop/?page=
Allow: /shop/?p=
Allow: /shop/?utm_source=
Allow: /shop/?utm_medium=
Allow: /shop/?utm_campaign=
Allow: /shop/?utm_content=
Allow: /*/shop/graphql?
Allow: /*/shop/*?jumpid

# Protected directories and features

Disallow: */shop/catalog/product_compare/
Disallow: */shop/catalog/category/view/
Disallow: */shop/catalog/product/view/
Disallow: */shop/catalog/seo_sitemap/
Disallow: */shop/catalogsearch/
Disallow: */shop/checkout/
Disallow: */shop/control/
Disallow: */shop/customer/
Disallow: */shop/sendfriend/
Disallow: */shop/ajaxcart/
Disallow: */shop/ajax/
Disallow: */shop/quickview/
Disallow: */shop/productalert/
Disallow: */shop/review/
Disallow: */shop/downloadable/
Disallow: */shop/newsletter
Disallow: */shop/push_notification
Disallow: */shop/rest/

# System and configuration files

Disallow: */shop/index.php
Disallow: */shop/cron.php
Disallow: */shop/cron.sh
Disallow: */shop/error_log
Disallow: */shop/install.php
Disallow: */shop/LICENSE.html
Disallow: */shop/LICENSE.txt
Disallow: */shop/LICENSE_AFL.txt
Disallow: */shop/STATUS.txt
Disallow: */shop/get.php
Disallow: */shop/app/
Disallow: */shop/lib/
Disallow: */shop/.php$
Disallow: */shop/pkginfo/
Disallow: */shop/report/
Disallow: /*/shop/var/

# Other pages

Disallow: */shop/no-route
Disallow: */shop/enable-cookies
# Disallow: /*/shop/home

# Other Bot Controls -------------------------------------------------------
User-agent: AdsBot-Google
Allow: /
Disallow: /epp/

User-Agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow:

User-Agent: AdIdxBot
Allow: /

User-agent: MSNBot-Media
Crawl-delay: 0

# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

# EMEA Sitemaps
Sitemap:  https://www.hp.com/sitemap-gb-en-isc.xml
Sitemap:  https://www.hp.com/sitemap-ca-en-isc.xml
Sitemap:  https://www.hp.com/sitemap-ca-fr-isc.xml
Sitemap:  https://www.hp.com/sitemap-fr-fr-isc.xml
Sitemap:  https://www.hp.com/sitemap-de-de-isc.xml
Sitemap:  https://www.hp.com/sitemap-es-es-isc.xml
Sitemap:  https://www.hp.com/sitemap-ch-de-isc.xml
Sitemap:  https://www.hp.com/sitemap-ch-en-isc.xml
Sitemap:  https://www.hp.com/sitemap-ch-fr-isc.xml
Sitemap:  https://www.hp.com/sitemap-it-it-mag.xml
Sitemap:  https://www.hp.com/sitemap-pl-pl-mag.xml 
Sitemap:  https://www.hp.com/sitemap-nl-nl-mag.xml 
Sitemap:  https://www.hp.com/sitemap-be-nl-mag.xml 
Sitemap:  https://www.hp.com/sitemap-be-fr-mag.xml 
Sitemap:  https://www.hp.com/sitemap-se-sv-mag.xml


# EMEA Tech-Takes Sitemaps
Sitemap:  https://www.hp.com/sitemap-gb-app-tech-takes-article-archives.xml
Sitemap:  https://www.hp.com/sitemap-gb-app-tech-takes-article-categories.xml
Sitemap:  https://www.hp.com/sitemap-gb-app-tech-takes-article-months.xml
Sitemap:  https://www.hp.com/sitemap-gb-app-tech-takes-article-tags.xml
Sitemap:  https://www.hp.com/sitemap-gb-app-tech-takes-article-years.xml
Sitemap:  https://www.hp.com/sitemap-gb-app-tech-takes-articles.xml
Sitemap:  https://www.hp.com/sitemap-gb-app-tech-takes-home.xml

# CA Sitemaps
Sitemap: https://www.hp.com/sitemap-ca-en-isc.xml
Sitemap: https://www.hp.com/sitemap-ca-fr-isc.xml

# APJ Sitemaps
Sitemap:  https://www.hp.com/sitemap-sg-en-mag.xml
Sitemap:  https://www.hp.com/sitemap-my-en-mag.xml
Sitemap:  https://www.hp.com/sitemap-in-en-mag.xml
Sitemap:  https://www.hp.com/sitemap-th-th-mag.xml
Sitemap:  https://www.hp.com/sitemap-th-en-mag.xml
Sitemap:  https://www.hp.com/sitemap-id-en-mag.xml
Sitemap:  https://www.hp.com/sitemap-id-id-mag.xml
Sitemap:  https://www.hp.com/sitemap-hk-zh-mag.xml
Sitemap:  https://www.hp.com/sitemap-hk-en-mag.xml
Sitemap:  https://www.hp.com/sitemap-kr-ko-mag.xml
Sitemap:  https://www.hp.com/sitemap-au-en-mag.xml
Sitemap:  https://www.hp.com/sitemap-nz-en-mag.xml
Sitemap:  https://www.hp.com/sa-ar/shop/sitemap.xml
Sitemap:  https://www.hp.com/sa-en/shop/sitemap.xml

# LATAM Sitemaps
Sitemap:  https://www.hp.com/sitemap-br-pt-mag.xml
Sitemap:  https://www.hp.com/sitemap-co-es-mag.xml
Sitemap:  https://www.hp.com/sitemap-cl-es-mag.xml
Sitemap:  https://www.hp.com/sitemap-mx-es-mag.xml
Sitemap:  https://www.hp.com/sitemap-pe-es-mag.xml
Sitemap:  https://www.hp.com/sitemap-ar-es-mag.xml

# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------


# Marketing Sitemaps

Sitemap:   https://www.hp.com/sitemap_index.xml

# US Index Sitemaps
Sitemap: https://www.hp.com/sitemap
Sitemap: https://www.hp.com/sitemap-index-store-global-hreflang-non-pdp.xml
Sitemap: https://www.hp.com/sitemap-index-store-global-hreflang-pdp.xml
Sitemap: https://www.hp.com/sitemap-index-store-global-hreflang-tech-takes.xml
Sitemap: https://www.hp.com/sitemap-index-store-us-en.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