icloud.com: what it tells AI crawlers

On 27 October 2026, icloud.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.icloud.com/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-26 · sha256 7c0da5b622a8703a… · view as recorded

The * group

allows applies to every agent without its own group

Per AI bot, 2026-10-27

Other signals

robots.txt as recorded sha256 7c0da5b622a8703a…

Sitemap: https://www.icloud.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.icloud.com/sitemap-info.xml

User-agent: *

Disallow: /unsupported_browser
Disallow: /unsupported_mobile
Disallow: /enable_cookies
Disallow: /maintenance
Disallow: /not_found
Disallow: /unavailable
Disallow: /attachment/
Disallow: /download/
Disallow: /invites/
Disallow: /iw/
Disallow: /bookmarks_extension/
Disallow: /family_sharing/
Disallow: /calendar/eventreply/
Disallow: /fmf_getting_started/
Disallow: /fmf_location_update/
Disallow: /fmf_location_update_unsubscribe_undo/
Disallow: /fmf_unsubscribe/
Disallow: /fmf_unsubscribe_error/
Disallow: /fmf_unsubscribe_success/
Disallow: /fmf_unsubscribe_undo/
Disallow: /fmf_unsupported_device/
Disallow: /photos_get_started/
Disallow: /sharedalbum_unsubscribe/
Disallow: /sharedalbum_unsubscribe_error/
Disallow: /sharedalbum_unsubscribe_undo/
Disallow: /sharedalbum_unsupported_device/
Disallow: /photostream_unsubscribe/
Disallow: /iclouddrive/
Disallow: /notes/
Disallow: /photos/
Disallow: /reminders/
Disallow: /share/
Disallow: /pages/
Disallow: /numbers/
Disallow: /keynote/
Disallow: /keynote-live/
Disallow: /sharedalbum/
Disallow: /ca/ics/
Disallow: /shared/

User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /

User-agent: facebookexternalhit
Allow: /invites/
Allow: /opengraph/

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 icloud.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/icloud.com