is.fi: what it tells AI crawlers

On 27 October 2026, is.fi'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.

Panel
top 10k (Tranco)
robots.txt
ok (HTTP 200) · https://www.is.fi/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-27 · sha256 2cb0b0377f338e20… · view as recorded
The * group
allows applies to every agent without its own group

Per AI bot, 2026-10-27

User agentVerdictHow
GPTBotblocksnamed in its own group
OAI-SearchBotblocksnamed in its own group
ChatGPT-Userblocksnamed in its own group
ClaudeBotblocksnamed in its own group
Claude-SearchBotblocksnamed in its own group
Claude-Userblocksnamed in its own group
PerplexityBotblocksnamed in its own group
Perplexity-Userblocksnamed in its own group
Googlebotallowsthrough the * group
Google-Extendedblocksnamed in its own group
Applebot-Extendedblocksnamed in its own group
CCBotblocksnamed in its own group
Bytespiderblocksnamed in its own group
Meta-ExternalAgentblocksnamed in its own group
Amazonbotblocksnamed in its own group
anthropic-aiblocksnamed in its own group
Claude-Webblocksnamed in its own group
cohere-aiblocksnamed in its own group
DeepSeekBotblocksnamed in its own group
Diffbotblocksnamed in its own group
FacebookBotblocksnamed in its own group
FriendlyCrawlerblocksnamed in its own group
Google-CloudVertexBotblocksnamed in its own group
ImagesiftBotblocksnamed in its own group
ISSCyberRiskCrawlerblocksnamed in its own group
meta-externalfetcherblocksnamed in its own group
meta-webindexerblocksnamed in its own group
MistralAI-Userblocksnamed in its own group
omgiliblocksnamed in its own group
omgilibotblocksnamed in its own group
PanguBotblocksnamed in its own group
Timpibotblocksnamed in its own group
VelenPublicWebCrawlerblocksnamed in its own group
Webzio-Extendedblocksnamed in its own group
YouBotblocksnamed in its own group

Other signals

Publishes /llms.txtno
Publishes /ai.txtno
Publishes /.well-known/tdmrep.jsonno
Reserves TDM rights (TDMRep file, header or meta)no
Declares Content Signals (robots.txt or header)no
Says ai-train=no in a Content Signalno
Points to an RSL licence (robots.txt License line or Link header)no
Answers with an x402 payment offer (lower bound: only the homepage is probed)no
Answers HTTP 402 Payment Required (lower bound: only the homepage is probed)no
Sends noai / noimageai directivesno
Refused our fetcher (403 / challenge)no

robots.txt as recorded sha256 f2163707d82a07fc…

User-Agent: *
Disallow: /promo/
Disallow: /sivulaskuri/
Disallow: /rest/
Allow: /rest/paid/*

Disallow: /taloussanomat/porssi/osake/<[\w\d\._]+>/
Disallow: /taloussanomat/porssi/raaka-aine/<[\w\d\._]+>/
Disallow: /taloussanomat/porssi/korko/<[\w\d\._]+>/
Disallow: /taloussanomat/porssi/rahasto/<[\w\d\._]+>/
Disallow: /taloussanomat/porssi/indeksi/<[\w\d\._]+>/
Disallow: /taloussanomat/porssi/valuutta/<[\w\d\._]+>/

Sitemap: https://www.is.fi/sitemap/fe/is/sitemapindex.xml
Sitemap: https://www.is.fi/sitemap/sd/sitemapindex.xml
Sitemap: https://www.is.fi/sitemap/cd/sitemap-companies-index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.is.fi/sitemap/cd/sitemap-dividends-index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.is.fi/sitemap/cd/sitemap-finance-statistics-index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.is.fi/sitemap/cd/sitemap-new-companies-index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.is.fi/sitemap/cd/sitemap-protests-index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.is.fi/sitemap/cd/sitemap-statics-index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.is.fi/sitemap/cd/sitemap-tol-classification-index.xml

Sitemap: https://www.is.fi/rss/custom/news-sitemap.xml

robots.txt versions

FromThroughStateVersion
2026-10-272026-10-27ok 2002cb0b0377f33diff with previous
2026-10-262026-10-26ok 200139a07051af1

Timeline of changes

DateWhat changed
2026-10-27robots.txt changed
2026-10-27now blocks meta-webindexer (was allow)

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.

CrawlHostStateGPTBotOAI-SearchBotChatGPT-UserClaudeBotClaude-SearchBotClaude-UserPerplexityBot
2026-09-21 CC-MAIN-2026-39www.is.fiok viewblocksblocksunknownblocksblocksunknownblocks
2025-09-15 CC-MAIN-2025-38www.is.fiok viewblocksblocksunknownblocksallowsunknownblocks
2024-09-16 CC-MAIN-2024-38www.is.fiok viewblocksblocksunknownallowsallowsunknownblocks
2023-10-02 CC-MAIN-2023-40www.is.fiok viewblocksallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2022-10-03 CC-MAIN-2022-40www.is.fiok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2021-09-27 CC-MAIN-2021-39www.is.fiok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2020-09-28 CC-MAIN-2020-40www.is.fiok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2019-09-23 CC-MAIN-2019-39www.is.fiok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2018-09-24 CC-MAIN-2018-39www.is.fiok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2018-01-29 CC-MAIN-2018-05www.is.fiok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2017-10-23 CC-MAIN-2017-43www.is.fiok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2017-09-25 CC-MAIN-2017-39www.is.fiok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2017-07-24 CC-MAIN-2017-30www.is.fiok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2017-04-24 CC-MAIN-2017-17is.fiok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows

Evidence

Every daily observation of is.fi 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/is.fi