lapresse.ca: what it tells AI crawlers

On 27 October 2026, lapresse.ca'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.lapresse.ca:443/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-27 · sha256 36c5be22c85557e1… · 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 36c5be22c85557e1…

# Le contenu La Presse est mis à disposition selon nos conditions d'utilisation.
# Toute autre utilisation n'est pas autorisée, y compris, mais sans s'y limiter : pour les grands modèles de langage (LLM), l'apprentissage automatique et/ou les activités liées à l'intelligence artificielle.
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# La Presse content is made available under our terms and conditions of use.
# Any other uses are not permitted, incl. but not limited to: for large language models (LLMs), machine learning and/or artificial intelligence-related
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User-agent: *
Disallow: /_previsualisation/
Disallow: /includes/boite/1/
Disallow: /includes/boite/2/
Disallow: /includes/boite/3/
Disallow: /multimedias/top-10-des-noms-de-familles-quebecois/
Disallow: /multimedias/carte-des-milieux-humides/
Disallow: /trending/
Disallow: /mon-compte
Disallow: /webparts
Disallow: /meteo
Disallow: /recherche
Disallow: /*/embed$
Disallow: /*/embed/$

User-agent: AhrefsBot
User-agent: Amazonbot
User-agent: anthropic-ai
User-agent: Applebot
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
User-agent: archive.org_bot
User-agent: Archive-It
User-agent: BaiduSpider
User-agent: BLP_bbot
User-agent: Brandwatch
User-agent: Bytespider
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: Cision
User-agent: Claude
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
User-agent: Claude-Web
User-agent: DataForSeoBot
User-agent: Diffbot
User-agent: dotbot/1.0
User-agent: FacebookBot
User-agent: Gigabot
User-agent: Gnowit
User-agent: GnowitNewsbot
User-agent: Google-Extended
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: Heritrix
User-agent: ia_archiver
User-agent: linkfluence
User-agent: magpie-crawler
User-agent: mediatoolkit.com
User-agent: Meltwater
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher
User-agent: Muckrack
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-agent: openai
User-agent: OTMedia
User-agent: Perplexity
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: scoopit
User-agent: scpitspi-rs
User-agent: semantic-visions.com
User-agent: SemrushBot
User-agent: SentiBot
User-agent: trendiction
User-agent: Turnitin
User-agent: webzio
User-agent: webzio-extended
User-agent: YouBot
Allow: /xtra/
Allow: /robots.txt
Disallow: /

Sitemap: https://www.lapresse.ca/sitemapindex.xml
Sitemap: https://www.lapresse.ca/newsSitemap.xml

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 lapresse.ca 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/lapresse.ca