imdb.com: what it tells AI crawlers

On 27 October 2026, imdb.com's robots.txt fully blocked 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.imdb.com/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-26 · sha256 8c80a1f3076cb1ea… · view as recorded

The * group

blocks applies to every agent without its own group

Per AI bot, 2026-10-27

Other signals

robots.txt as recorded sha256 8c80a1f3076cb1ea…

# The content on this site is owned by IMDb.com, Inc., an Amazon.com company
# and is made available for your personal, non-commercial use subject
# to our Conditions of Use here: https://www.imdb.com/conditions/
# Use of any device, tool, or process designed to data mine or scrape the content
# using automated means is prohibited without prior written permission from IMDb.
# For authorized data access and licensing inquiries, see: https://www.imdb.com/licensing/

User-agent: Googlebot
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
User-agent: Googlebot-Video
User-agent: Google-PageRenderer
User-agent: Google-InspectionTool
User-agent: Google-Safety
User-agent: Google-Site-Verification
User-agent: AdsBot-Google
User-agent: AdsBot-Google-Mobile
User-agent: Chrome-Lighthouse
User-agent: Storebot-Google
User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
User-agent: GoogleStructuredData
User-agent: Google-Read-Aloud
User-agent: bingbot
User-agent: Applebot
User-agent: DuckDuckBot
User-agent: DuckAssistBot
User-agent: Baiduspider
User-agent: Sogou
User-agent: MojeekBot
User-agent: facebookexternalhit
User-agent: Twitterbot
User-agent: Pinterestbot
User-agent: LinkedInBot
User-agent: WhatsApp
User-agent: TelegramBot
User-agent: Discordbot
User-agent: Snapchat
User-agent: Slackbot-LinkExpanding
User-agent: Amazonbot
User-agent: Amzn-SearchBot
User-agent: Amzn-User
User-agent: ClarityBot
User-agent: Citoid
Allow: /
Disallow: /register
Disallow: /*/register
Disallow: /registration/
Disallow: /*/registration/
Disallow: /search/title/*
Disallow: /*/search/title/*
Disallow: /search/name/*
Disallow: /*/search/name/*
Disallow: /find
Disallow: /*/find
Disallow: /find/
Disallow: /*/find/
Disallow: /contribute/*
Disallow: /*/contribute/*
Disallow: /title/*/review/*
Disallow: /*/title/*/review/*
Disallow: /title/*/reviews
Disallow: /*/title/*/reviews
Disallow: /user/ur*/reviews
Disallow: /*/user/ur*/reviews

User-agent: AmazonAdBot
Allow: /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

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 imdb.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/imdb.com