issuu.com: what it tells AI crawlers

On 27 October 2026, issuu.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.

Panel: top 1k (Tranco)
robots.txt: ok (HTTP 200) · https://issuu.com/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-26 · sha256 0b1d7d5e5b591724… · view as recorded
The * group: allows applies to every agent without its own group

Per AI bot, 2026-10-27

User agent	Verdict	How
GPTBot	allows	through the * group
OAI-SearchBot	allows	through the * group
ChatGPT-User	allows	through the * group
ClaudeBot	allows	through the * group
Claude-SearchBot	allows	through the * group
Claude-User	allows	through the * group
PerplexityBot	allows	through the * group
Perplexity-User	allows	through the * group
Googlebot	allows	through the * group
Google-Extended	allows	through the * group
Applebot-Extended	allows	through the * group
CCBot	allows	through the * group
Bytespider	allows	through the * group
Meta-ExternalAgent	allows	through the * group
Amazonbot	allows	through the * group
AddSearchBot	blocks	named in its own group
PetalBot	blocks	named in its own group
SemrushBot-OCOB	blocks	named in its own group
YaK	blocks	named in its own group

Other signals

Publishes /llms.txt	no
Publishes /ai.txt	no
Publishes /.well-known/tdmrep.json	no
Reserves TDM rights (TDMRep file, header or meta)	no
Declares Content Signals (robots.txt or header)	no
Says ai-train=no in a Content Signal	no
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 directives	no
Refused our fetcher (403 / challenge)	no

robots.txt as recorded sha256 6b9b82a3373f22f2…


User-agent: AddSearchBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: AwarioBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: AwarioRssBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: AwarioSmartBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: BLEXBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: BomboraBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: CheckLinks
Disallow: /
User-agent: Clickagy Intelligence Bot
Disallow: /
User-agent: cocolyzebot
Disallow: /
User-agent: DataForSeoBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: DomainStatsBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: DotBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: FindLinks
Disallow: /
User-agent: getlinkinfo.com
Disallow: /
User-agent: harsilbot
Disallow: /
User-agent: HubSpot Crawler
Disallow: /
User-agent: linkCheck
Disallow: /
User-agent: LinkWalker
Disallow: /
User-agent: MBCrawler
Disallow: /
User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Morningscore Bot
Disallow: /
User-agent: nooze-bot
Disallow: /
User-agent: OpenindexSpider
Disallow: /
User-agent: OpenWebSpider
Disallow: /
User-agent: PetalBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Qwantify
Disallow: /
User-agent: Qwantify-prod
Disallow: /
User-agent: RankFlex
Disallow: /
User-agent: Rogerbot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Screaming Frog SEO Spider
Disallow: /
User-agent: SearchmetricsBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: SeekportBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: SeekrBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: SemrushBot-BA
Disallow: /
User-agent: SemrushBot-OCOB
Disallow: /
User-agent: SEO-Checker-bot
Disallow: /
User-agent: SeobilityBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: SeoSiteCheckup
Disallow: /
User-agent: SEOdiver Bot
Disallow: /
User-agent: SEOkicks-Robot
Disallow: /
User-agent: SEOstats
Disallow: /
User-agent: SiteAuditBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: trendictionbot
Disallow: /
User-agent: webgains-bot
Disallow: /
User-agent: www.deadlinkchecker.com
Disallow: /
User-agent: YaK
Disallow: /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /home$
Disallow: /home/
Disallow: /home?
Disallow: /mylibrary$
Disallow: /mylibrary/
Disallow: /mylibrary?
Disallow: /publish$
Disallow: /publish/
Disallow: /publish?
Disallow: /user/settings
Disallow: /user/upload
Disallow: /sections$
Disallow: /sections/
Disallow: /sections?
Disallow: /business/signup
Disallow: /embed/guide
Disallow: /oembed/
Disallow: /oembed?
Disallow: /oembed_wp/
Disallow: /oembed_wp?
Disallow: /oembed_tumblr/
Disallow: /oembed_tumblr?
Disallow: /prv/originalfile
Disallow: /flag/document
Disallow: /flag/profile
Disallow: /action$
Disallow: /action/
Disallow: /action?
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /students/
Allow: /call/notifier/friendly/get
Allow: /call/document-page/stream/
Allow: /call/stream/
Allow: /call/profile/
Allow: /query?*action=issuu.documents.list_anonymous&
Allow: /query?*action=issuu.documents.list_anonymous$
Allow: /query?*action=issuu.stacks.list_anonymous&
Allow: /query?*action=issuu.stacks.list_anonymous$
Allow: /query?*action=issuu.user.list_subscribers&
Allow: /query?*action=issuu.user.list_subscribers$
Disallow: /call/
Disallow: /res/
Disallow: /cwv/
Disallow: /query$
Disallow: /query%
Disallow: /query?
Disallow: /query/
Disallow: /try$
Disallow: /try%
Disallow: /try?
Disallow: /try/
Disallow: /prices$
Disallow: /prices%
Disallow: /prices?
Disallow: /prices/
Disallow: /query%
Disallow: /query?
Disallow: /query/
Disallow: /signup/payment
Disallow: /signup/payment%
Disallow: /signup/payment?
Disallow: /signup/payment/
Disallow: /signup/onboarding
Disallow: /signup/onboarding%
Disallow: /signup/onboarding?
Disallow: /signup/onboarding/
Disallow: /signup?
Disallow: /signin?
Disallow: /forgotpassword?
Disallow: /sso-signin?
Disallow: /logout
Disallow: /preview/result
Disallow: /preview/result?
Disallow: /preview/result%
Disallow: /preview/result?
Disallow: /preview/result/
Disallow: /search?

Disallow: /lp/thank-you-reader$
Disallow: /lp/thank-you-reader%
Disallow: /lp/thank-you-reader?
Disallow: /lp/thank-you-reader/

Disallow: /offers/referral-terms-conditions$
Disallow: /offers/referral-terms-conditions%
Disallow: /offers/referral-terms-conditions?
Disallow: /offers/referral-terms-conditions/

Disallow: /go/menu$
Disallow: /go/menu%
Disallow: /go/menu?
Disallow: /go/menu/

Disallow: /go/realty$
Disallow: /go/realty%
Disallow: /go/realty?
Disallow: /go/realty/

Disallow: /acq/nonprofits$
Disallow: /acq/nonprofits%
Disallow: /acq/nonprofits?
Disallow: /acq/nonprofits/

Disallow: /offers/nonprofits$
Disallow: /offers/nonprofits%
Disallow: /offers/nonprofits?
Disallow: /offers/nonprofits/

Disallow: /go/parks$
Disallow: /go/parks%
Disallow: /go/parks?
Disallow: /go/parks/

Disallow: /acq/real-estate$
Disallow: /acq/real-estate%
Disallow: /acq/real-estate?
Disallow: /acq/real-estate/

Disallow: /acq/parks-and-recreation$
Disallow: /acq/parks-and-recreation%
Disallow: /acq/parks-and-recreation?
Disallow: /acq/parks-and-recreation/


Sitemap: https://issuu.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://issuu.com/sitemap/segmented/index-document-deu.xml
Sitemap: https://issuu.com/sitemap/segmented/index-document-por.xml
Sitemap: https://issuu.com/sitemap/segmented/index-document-fra.xml
Sitemap: https://issuu.com/sitemap/segmented/index-document-spa.xml
Sitemap: https://issuu.com/sitemap/segmented/index-document-eng.xml
Sitemap: https://issuu.com/sitemap/segmented/index-document-other.xml
Sitemap: https://issuu.com/sitemap/segmented/index-document-ind.xml
Sitemap: https://issuu.com/sitemap/segmented/index-document-ita.xml
Sitemap: https://issuu.com/sitemap/segmented/index-article_story-ind.xml
Sitemap: https://issuu.com/sitemap/segmented/index-article_story-spa.xml
Sitemap: https://issuu.com/sitemap/segmented/index-article_story-por.xml
Sitemap: https://issuu.com/sitemap/segmented/index-article_story-deu.xml
Sitemap: https://issuu.com/sitemap/segmented/index-article_story-ita.xml
Sitemap: https://issuu.com/sitemap/segmented/index-article_story-eng.xml
Sitemap: https://issuu.com/sitemap/segmented/index-article_story-fra.xml
Sitemap: https://issuu.com/sitemap/segmented/index-article_story-other.xml
Sitemap: https://issuu.com/sitemap/segmented/index-user.xml

robots.txt versions

From	Through	State	Version
2026-10-26	2026-10-27	ok 200	`0b1d7d5e5b59`

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	issuu.com	ok view	allows	allows	unknown	allows	allows	unknown	allows
2025-09-15 CC-MAIN-2025-38	issuu.com	ok view	allows	allows	unknown	allows	allows	unknown	allows
2024-09-16 CC-MAIN-2024-38	issuu.com	ok view	allows	allows	unknown	allows	allows	unknown	allows
2023-10-02 CC-MAIN-2023-40	issuu.com	ok view	allows	allows	unknown	allows	allows	unknown	allows
2022-10-03 CC-MAIN-2022-40	issuu.com	ok view	allows	allows	unknown	allows	allows	unknown	allows
2021-09-27 CC-MAIN-2021-39	issuu.com	ok view	allows	allows	unknown	allows	allows	unknown	allows
2020-09-28 CC-MAIN-2020-40	issuu.com	ok view	allows	allows	unknown	allows	allows	unknown	allows
2019-09-23 CC-MAIN-2019-39	issuu.com	ok view	allows	allows	unknown	allows	allows	unknown	allows
2018-09-24 CC-MAIN-2018-39	issuu.com	ok view	allows	allows	unknown	allows	allows	unknown	allows
2018-01-29 CC-MAIN-2018-05	issuu.com	ok view	allows	allows	unknown	allows	allows	unknown	allows
2017-10-23 CC-MAIN-2017-43	issuu.com	ok view	allows	allows	unknown	allows	allows	unknown	allows
2017-09-25 CC-MAIN-2017-39	issuu.com	ok view	allows	allows	unknown	allows	allows	unknown	allows
2017-07-24 CC-MAIN-2017-30	issuu.com	ok view	allows	allows	unknown	allows	allows	unknown	allows
2017-04-24 CC-MAIN-2017-17	issuu.com	ok view	allows	allows	unknown	allows	allows	unknown	allows
2017-01-23 CC-MAIN-2017-04	issuu.com	ok view	allows	allows	unknown	allows	allows	unknown	allows
2016-10-03 CC-MAIN-2016-40	issuu.com	ok view	allows	allows	unknown	allows	allows	unknown	allows
2016-09-05 CC-MAIN-2016-36	issuu.com	ok view	allows	allows	unknown	allows	allows	unknown	allows

Evidence

Every daily observation of issuu.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/issuu.com