indeed.com: what it tells AI crawlers
On 28 October 2026, indeed.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.indeed.com/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-26 · sha2561189922fa6724d51…· view as recorded - The * group
- allows applies to every agent without its own group
Per AI bot, 2026-10-28
| User agent | Verdict | How |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | allows | named in its own group |
| OAI-SearchBot | allows | named in its own group |
| ChatGPT-User | allows | named in its own group |
| ClaudeBot | allows | named in its own group |
| Claude-SearchBot | allows | named in its own group |
| Claude-User | allows | named in its own group |
| PerplexityBot | allows | named in its own group |
| Perplexity-User | allows | named in its own group |
| Googlebot | allows | named in its own group |
| Google-Extended | allows | named in its own group |
| Applebot-Extended | allows | named in its own group |
| CCBot | allows | named in its own group |
| Bytespider | allows | named in its own group |
| Meta-ExternalAgent | allows | named in its own group |
| Amazonbot | allows | named in its own group |
| anthropic-ai | allows | named in its own group |
| cohere-training-data-crawler | allows | named in its own group |
| DeepSeekBot | allows | named in its own group |
| Diffbot | allows | named in its own group |
| DuckAssistBot | allows | named in its own group |
| FacebookBot | allows | named in its own group |
| facebookexternalhit | allows | named in its own group |
| FriendlyCrawler | allows | named in its own group |
| Gemini-Deep-Research | allows | named in its own group |
| Google-Agent | allows | named in its own group |
| Google-CloudVertexBot | allows | named in its own group |
| GoogleOther | blocks | named in its own group |
| GrokBot | allows | named in its own group |
| meta-externalfetcher | allows | named in its own group |
| meta-webindexer | allows | named in its own group |
| MyCentralAIScraperBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| omgili | blocks | named in its own group |
| omgilibot | blocks | named in its own group |
| PanguBot | allows | named in its own group |
| PetalBot | allows | named in its own group |
| Scrapy | blocks | named in its own group |
| Timpibot | allows | named in its own group |
| Webzio-Extended | blocks | named in its own group |
| xAI-Grok | allows | named in its own group |
| YouBot | allows | named in its own group |
Other signals
| Publishes /llms.txt | not observed |
| Publishes /ai.txt | not observed |
| Publishes /.well-known/tdmrep.json | not observed |
| Reserves TDM rights (TDMRep file, header or meta) | not observed |
| Declares Content Signals (robots.txt or header) | not observed |
| Says ai-train=no in a Content Signal | not observed |
| Points to an RSL licence (robots.txt License line or Link header) | not observed |
| Answers with an x402 payment offer (lower bound: only the homepage is probed) | not observed |
| Answers HTTP 402 Payment Required (lower bound: only the homepage is probed) | not observed |
| Sends noai / noimageai directives | not observed |
| Refused our fetcher (403 / challenge) | no |
robots.txt as recorded sha256 479e37461229e16c…
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Disallow: /*%E5%85%AB%E7%8E%8B%E5%AD%90%E5%B8%82 Disallow: /*%E5%8D%83%E4%BB%A3%E7%94%B0%E5%8C%BA Disallow: /*%E5%8F%B0%E6%9D%B1%E5%8C%BA Disallow: /*%E5%93%81%E5%B7%9D%E5%8C%BA Disallow: /*%E5%9B%BD%E5%88%86%E5%AF%BA%E5%B8%82 Disallow: /*%E5%9B%BD%E7%AB%8B%E5%B8%82 Disallow: /*%E5%A2%A8%E7%94%B0%E5%8C%BA Disallow: /*%E5%A4%9A%E6%91%A9%E5%B8%82 Disallow: /*%E5%A4%A7%E7%94%B0%E5%8C%BA Disallow: /*%E5%B0%8F%E5%B9%B3%E5%B8%82 Disallow: /*%E5%B0%8F%E9%87%91%E4%BA%95%E5%B8%82 Disallow: /%E5%B7%A5%E4%BD%9C/ Disallow: /%E5%B7%A5%E4%BD%9C/CN/ Disallow: /%E5%B7%A5%E4%BD%9C/title/ Disallow: /*%E5%BA%9C%E4%B8%AD%E5%B8%82 Disallow: /*%E6%96%87%E4%BA%AC%E5%8C%BA Disallow: /*%E6%97%A5%E9%87%8E%E5%B8%82 Disallow: /*%E6%9D%89%E4%B8%A6%E5%8C%BA Disallow: /*%E6%9D%B1%E4%B9%85%E7%95%99%E7%B1%B3%E5%B8%82 Disallow: /*%E6%9D%B1%E6%9D%91%E5%B1%B1%E5%B8%82 Disallow: /*%E6%9D%BF%E6%A9%8B%E5%8C%BA Disallow: /*%E6%AD%A6%E8%94%B5%E9%87%8E%E5%B8%82 Disallow: /%E6%B1%82%E4%BA%BA/JP/ Disallow: /%E6%B1%82%E4%BA%BA/title/ Disallow: /*%E6%B1%9F%E6%88%B8%E5%B7%9D%E5%8C%BA Disallow: /*%E6%B1%9F%E6%9D%B1%E5%8C%BA Disallow: /*%E6%B8%8B%E8%B0%B7%E5%8C%BA Disallow: /*%E7%8B%9B%E6%B1%9F%E5%B8%82 Disallow: /*%E7%94%BA%E7%94%B0%E5%B8%82 Disallow: /*%E7%9B%AE%E9%BB%92%E5%8C%BA Disallow: /*%E7%A6%8F%E7%94%9F%E5%B8%82 Disallow: /*%E7%AB%8B%E5%B7%9D%E5%B8%82 Disallow: /*%E7%B7%B4%E9%A6%AC%E5%8C%BA Disallow: /%E8%81%8C%E4%BD%8D%E6%98%BE%E7%A4%BA? Disallow: /*%E8%8D%92%E5%B7%9D%E5%8C%BA Disallow: /*%E8%91%9B%E9%A3%BE%E5%8C%BA Disallow: /*%E8%A5%BF%E6%9D%B1%E4%BA%AC%E5%B8%82 Disallow: /*%E8%AA%BF%E5%B8%83%E5%B8%82 Disallow: /*%E8%B1%8A%E5%B3%B6%E5%8C%BA Disallow: /*%E9%9D%92%E6%A2%85%E5%B8%82 Disallow: /%EC%B7%A8%EC%97%85/KR/ Disallow: /%EC%B7%A8%EC%97%85/title/ Disallow: /empleo/ Disallow: /emploi/ Disallow: /emplois/FR/ Disallow: /emplois/title/ Disallow: /emprego/ Disallow: /empregos/BR/ Disallow: /empregos/title Disallow: /forum/profile Disallow: /g/ Disallow: /ja/clk? Disallow: /ja/imp.gif Disallow: /imgping Disallow: /ita? Disallow: /job/ Disallow: /Job/ Disallow: /jobb/ Disallow: /jobb/SE/ Disallow: /jobb/title/ Disallow: /jobroll Disallow: /jobs/AE/ Disallow: /jobs/AQ/ Disallow: /Jobs/AT/ Disallow: /jobs/AU/ Disallow: /jobs/BE/ Disallow: /jobs/BH/ Disallow: /jobs/CA/ Disallow: /jobs/CZ/ Disallow: /jobs/DE/ Disallow: /Jobs/DE/ Disallow: /jobs/DK/ Disallow: /jobs/FI/ Disallow: /jobs/GB/ Disallow: /jobs/GR/ Disallow: /jobs/HK/ Disallow: /jobs/HU/ Disallow: /jobs/ID/ Disallow: /jobs/IE/ Disallow: /jobs/IL/ Disallow: /jobs/IN/ Disallow: /jobs/KW/ Disallow: /jobs/LU/ Disallow: /jobs/MY/ Disallow: /jobs/NO/ Disallow: /jobs/NZ/ Disallow: /jobs/OM/ Disallow: /jobs/PE/ Disallow: /jobs/PH/ Disallow: /jobs/PK/ Disallow: /jobs/PT/ Disallow: /jobs/QA/ Disallow: /jobs/RO/ Disallow: /jobs/RU/ Disallow: /jobs/SA/ Disallow: /jobs/SG/ Disallow: /jobs/title Disallow: /Jobs/title Disallow: /jobs/TR/ Disallow: /jobs/TW/ Disallow: /jobs/US/ Disallow: /jobs/VE/ Disallow: /jobs/ZA/ Disallow: /jobtrends/trends/log/* Disallow: /jwidget.js* Disallow: /me/*/pdf Disallow: /m/jobalerts? Disallow: /m/newjobs Disallow: /m/recommended Disallow: /m/rpc/ Disallow: /m/viewjob? Disallow: /my/ Disallow: /*oc=1 Disallow: /ofertas/ES/ Disallow: /ofertas/title/ Disallow: /offerta-lavoro Disallow: /offerte-lavoro/IT/ Disallow: /offerte-lavoro/title Disallow: /pagead/ Disallow: /poka%C5%BCprac%C4%99? Disallow: /praca/ Disallow: /praca/PL/ Disallow: /praca/title/ Disallow: /preferences Disallow: /*radius= Disallow: /rc/ Disallow: /rdr/ Disallow: /recommendedjobs Disallow: /resumes/account Disallow: /resumes/advanced? Disallow: /resumes/alert Disallow: /resumes*radius= Disallow: /resumes*rb= Disallow: /resumes*res= Disallow: /resumes/rpc/ Disallow: /resumes*sort= Disallow: /resumes*start= Disallow: /rpc/ Disallow: /r/*/pdf Disallow: /rss Disallow: /setprefs Disallow: /*sid= Disallow: /*sp=0 Disallow: /stc Disallow: /Stellen/CH/ Disallow: /Stellen/title Disallow: /tellafriend Disallow: /tos/banner.js Disallow: /trabajo/ Disallow: /trabajo/AR/ Disallow: /trabajo/CL/ Disallow: /trabajo/CO/ Disallow: /trabajo/MX/ Disallow: /trabajo/title/ Disallow: /url Disallow: /vacature/ Disallow: /vacature-bekijken? Disallow: /vacatures/NL/ Disallow: /vacatures/title/ Disallow: /ver-empleo? Disallow: /ver-emprego? Disallow: /ver-oferta? Disallow: /viewjob? Disallow: /visajobb? Disallow: /voir-emploi? Disallow: /Zeige-Job? User-agent: Bingbot Allow: / Disallow: /*&alid= Disallow: /*&calert= Disallow: /*&from= Disallow: /*&iafilter= Disallow: /*?rss Disallow: /ads/ Disallow: /advanced_search? Disallow: /alert Disallow: /api/getrecjobs Disallow: /cmp/_/ Disallow: /cmp/_c/claim/* Disallow: /cmp/_rpc/ Disallow: /cmp/addlink Disallow: /cmp/addvideo Disallow: /cmp/*/analytics Disallow: /cmp/*/company-questions Disallow: /cmp/*/jobs/ Disallow: /cmp/*/people Disallow: /cmp/*/write-review Disallow: /company/* Disallow: /conversion/ Disallow: /cookiemigrator/ Disallow: /create-resume/lp/ Disallow: /*%E3%81%82%E3%81%8D%E3%82%8B%E9%87%8E%E5%B8%82 Disallow: /*%E4%B8%89%E9%B7%B9%E5%B8%82 Disallow: /*%E4%B8%96%E7%94%B0%E8%B0%B7%E5%8C%BA Disallow: /*%E4%B8%AD%E9%87%8E%E5%8C%BA Disallow: /%E4%BB%95%E4%BA%8B? 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Disallow: /*%E8%8D%92%E5%B7%9D%E5%8C%BA Disallow: /*%E8%91%9B%E9%A3%BE%E5%8C%BA Disallow: /*%E8%A5%BF%E6%9D%B1%E4%BA%AC%E5%B8%82 Disallow: /*%E8%AA%BF%E5%B8%83%E5%B8%82 Disallow: /*%E8%B1%8A%E5%B3%B6%E5%8C%BA Disallow: /*%E9%9D%92%E6%A2%85%E5%B8%82 Disallow: /%EC%B7%A8%EC%97%85/KR/ Disallow: /%EC%B7%A8%EC%97%85/title/ Disallow: /empleo/ Disallow: /emploi/ Disallow: /emplois/FR/ Disallow: /emplois/title/ Disallow: /emprego/ Disallow: /empregos/BR/ Disallow: /empregos/title Disallow: /forum/profile Disallow: /g/ Disallow: /ja/clk? Disallow: /ja/imp.gif Disallow: /imgping Disallow: /ita? Disallow: /job/ Disallow: /Job/ Disallow: /jobb/ Disallow: /jobb/SE/ Disallow: /jobb/title/ Disallow: /jobroll Disallow: /jobs/AE/ Disallow: /jobs/AQ/ Disallow: /Jobs/AT/ Disallow: /jobs/AU/ Disallow: /jobs/BE/ Disallow: /jobs/BH/ Disallow: /jobs/CA/ Disallow: /jobs/CZ/ Disallow: /jobs/DE/ Disallow: /Jobs/DE/ Disallow: /jobs/DK/ Disallow: /jobs/FI/ Disallow: /jobs/GB/ Disallow: /jobs/GR/ Disallow: /jobs/HK/ Disallow: /jobs/HU/ Disallow: /jobs/ID/ Disallow: /jobs/IE/ Disallow: /jobs/IL/ Disallow: /jobs/IN/ Disallow: /jobs/KW/ Disallow: /jobs/LU/ Disallow: /jobs/MY/ Disallow: /jobs/NO/ Disallow: /jobs/NZ/ Disallow: /jobs/OM/ Disallow: /jobs/PE/ Disallow: /jobs/PH/ Disallow: /jobs/PK/ Disallow: /jobs/PT/ Disallow: /jobs/QA/ Disallow: /jobs/RO/ Disallow: /jobs/RU/ Disallow: /jobs/SA/ Disallow: /jobs/SG/ Disallow: /jobs/title Disallow: /Jobs/title Disallow: /jobs/TR/ Disallow: /jobs/TW/ Disallow: /jobs/US/ Disallow: /jobs/VE/ Disallow: /jobs/ZA/ Disallow: /jobtrends/trends/log/* Disallow: /jwidget.js* Disallow: /me/*/pdf Disallow: /m/jobalerts? Disallow: /m/newjobs Disallow: /m/recommended Disallow: /m/rpc/ Disallow: /m/viewjob? Disallow: /my/ Disallow: /*oc=1 Disallow: /ofertas/ES/ Disallow: /ofertas/title/ Disallow: /offerta-lavoro Disallow: /offerte-lavoro/IT/ Disallow: /offerte-lavoro/title Disallow: /pagead/ Disallow: /poka%C5%BCprac%C4%99? Disallow: /praca/ Disallow: /praca/PL/ Disallow: /praca/title/ Disallow: /preferences Disallow: /*radius= Disallow: /rc/ Disallow: /rdr/ Disallow: /recommendedjobs Disallow: /resumes/account Disallow: /resumes/advanced? Disallow: /resumes/alert Disallow: /resumes*radius= Disallow: /resumes*rb= Disallow: /resumes*res= Disallow: /resumes/rpc/ Disallow: /resumes*sort= Disallow: /resumes*start= Disallow: /rpc/ Disallow: /r/*/pdf Disallow: /rss Disallow: /setprefs Disallow: /*sid= Disallow: /*sp=0 Disallow: /stc Disallow: /Stellen/CH/ Disallow: /Stellen/title Disallow: /tellafriend Disallow: /tos/banner.js Disallow: /trabajo/ Disallow: /trabajo/AR/ Disallow: /trabajo/CL/ Disallow: /trabajo/CO/ Disallow: /trabajo/MX/ Disallow: /trabajo/title/ Disallow: /url Disallow: /vacature/ Disallow: /vacature-bekijken? Disallow: /vacatures/NL/ Disallow: /vacatures/title/ Disallow: /ver-empleo? Disallow: /ver-emprego? Disallow: /ver-oferta? Disallow: /viewjob? Disallow: /visajobb? Disallow: /voir-emploi? Disallow: /Zeige-Job? User-agent: ia_archiver Disallow: / User-Agent: OmniExplorer_Bot Disallow: / User-agent: Mediapartners-Google Allow: / User-agent: AdsBot-Google Allow: /create-resume/lp/ Allow: /*sid= User-agent: adidxbot Allow: /*sid= User-agent: Googlebot-Image Disallow: /trendgraph/* User-agent: msnbot-media Disallow: /trendgraph/* User-agent: 008 Disallow: / User-agent: JobdiggerSpider Disallow: / User-agent: Cliqzbot Disallow: /
robots.txt versions
| From | Through | State | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-26 | 2026-10-28 | ok 200 | 1189922fa672 |
Timeline of changes
| Date | What changed |
|---|---|
| No changes since the first observation (2026-10-26). | |
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.
| Crawl | Host | State | GPTBot | OAI-SearchBot | ChatGPT-User | ClaudeBot | Claude-SearchBot | Claude-User | PerplexityBot |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-21 CC-MAIN-2026-39 | www.indeed.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2025-09-15 CC-MAIN-2025-38 | www.indeed.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2024-09-16 CC-MAIN-2024-38 | www.indeed.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2023-10-02 CC-MAIN-2023-40 | www.indeed.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2022-10-03 CC-MAIN-2022-40 | www.indeed.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2021-09-27 CC-MAIN-2021-39 | www.indeed.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2020-09-28 CC-MAIN-2020-40 | www.indeed.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2019-09-23 CC-MAIN-2019-39 | www.indeed.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2018-09-24 CC-MAIN-2018-39 | www.indeed.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2018-07-23 CC-MAIN-2018-30 | www.indeed.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2018-04-23 CC-MAIN-2018-17 | www.indeed.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2018-01-29 CC-MAIN-2018-05 | www.indeed.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-10-23 CC-MAIN-2017-43 | www.indeed.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-09-25 CC-MAIN-2017-39 | www.indeed.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-07-24 CC-MAIN-2017-30 | www.indeed.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-04-24 CC-MAIN-2017-17 | www.indeed.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-01-23 CC-MAIN-2017-04 | www.indeed.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2016-10-03 CC-MAIN-2016-40 | indeed.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2016-09-05 CC-MAIN-2016-36 | indeed.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
Evidence
Every daily observation of indeed.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/indeed.com