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.
- Panel
- top 10k (Tranco)
- robots.txt
- ok (HTTP 200) · https://www.lapresse.ca:443/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-27 · sha25636c5be22c85557e1…· 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 | blocks | named in its own group |
| OAI-SearchBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| ChatGPT-User | blocks | named in its own group |
| ClaudeBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Claude-SearchBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Claude-User | allows | through the * group |
| PerplexityBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Perplexity-User | allows | through the * group |
| Googlebot | allows | through the * group |
| Google-Extended | blocks | named in its own group |
| Applebot-Extended | blocks | named in its own group |
| CCBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Bytespider | blocks | named in its own group |
| Meta-ExternalAgent | blocks | named in its own group |
| Amazonbot | blocks | named in its own group |
| anthropic-ai | blocks | named in its own group |
| Applebot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Claude-Web | blocks | named in its own group |
| Diffbot | blocks | named in its own group |
| FacebookBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| meta-externalfetcher | blocks | named in its own group |
| OpenAI | blocks | named in its own group |
| Webzio-Extended | blocks | named in its own group |
| YouBot | blocks | 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 684cf6d15b195055…
User-agent: * Disallow: /cpspecial/ Disallow: /international/dossiers/deces-de-nelson-mandela/ Disallow: /videos/cinema/201307/05/46-1-les-2-marc-critiquent-les-amants-passagers-.php/5e4fa7cc32304b63a0ce1c8bdf87aa09 Disallow: /multimedias/top-10-des-noms-de-familles-quebecois/ Disallow: /multimedias/carte-des-milieux-humides/ Disallow: /xtra/sante-et-mieux-etre/ Disallow: /rmon1/ Disallow: /includes/boite/1/ Disallow: /includes/boite/2/ Disallow: /includes/boite/3/ Disallow: /debats/chroniques/stephanie-berube/ Disallow: /opinions/chroniqueurs/stephanie-berube/ Disallow: /chroniqueurs/stephanie-berube/ Disallow: /opinions/chroniqueurs/jean-francois-begin/ Disallow: /debats/chroniques/jean-francois-begin/ Disallow: /chroniqueurs/jean-francois-begin/ Disallow: /opinions/chroniqueurs/marc-tison/ Disallow: /chroniqueurs/marc-tison/ Disallow: /debats/chroniques/marc-tison/ Disallow: /membre/login.php Disallow: /actualites/politique/politique-canadienne/201304/10/01-4639287-le-canada-accuse-de-tourner-le-dos-aux-refugies.php Disallow: /actualites/politique/politique-canadienne/201304/10/01-4639288-une-vision-contradictoire-de-la-situation.php Disallow: /le-droit/ Disallow: /le-soleil/ Disallow: /le-nouvelliste/ Disallow: /la-tribune/ Disallow: /la-voix-de-lest/ Disallow: /la-tribune/ Disallow: /videos/le-droit/ Disallow: /videos/le-soleil/ Disallow: /videos/le-nouvelliste/ Disallow: /videos/le-quotidien/ Disallow: /videos/la-tribune/ Disallow: /videos/la-voix-de-lest/ Sitemap: http://www.lapresse.ca/sitemapindex.xml Sitemap: http://www.lapresse.ca/newsSitemap.xml
robots.txt versions
| From | Through | State | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-27 | 2026-10-27 | ok 200 | 36c5be22c855 | diff with previous |
| 2026-10-26 | 2026-10-26 | ok 200 | aa877f2a9132 |
Timeline of changes
| Date | What changed |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-27 | robots.txt changed |
| 2026-10-27 | now blocks ChatGPT-User (was allow) |
| 2026-10-27 | now blocks GPTBot (was allow) |
| 2026-10-27 | now blocks OAI-SearchBot (was allow) |
| 2026-10-27 | now blocks OpenAI (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.
| Crawl | Host | State | GPTBot | OAI-SearchBot | ChatGPT-User | ClaudeBot | Claude-SearchBot | Claude-User | PerplexityBot |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-21 CC-MAIN-2026-39 | www.lapresse.ca | fetch-blocked | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown |
| 2025-09-15 CC-MAIN-2025-38 | www.lapresse.ca | ok view | blocks | blocks | unknown | blocks | allows | unknown | blocks |
| 2024-09-16 CC-MAIN-2024-38 | www.lapresse.ca | ok view | blocks | allows | unknown | blocks | allows | unknown | blocks |
| 2023-10-02 CC-MAIN-2023-40 | www.lapresse.ca | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2022-10-03 CC-MAIN-2022-40 | www.lapresse.ca | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2021-09-27 CC-MAIN-2021-39 | www.lapresse.ca | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2020-09-28 CC-MAIN-2020-40 | www.lapresse.ca | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2019-09-23 CC-MAIN-2019-39 | www.lapresse.ca | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2018-09-24 CC-MAIN-2018-39 | www.lapresse.ca | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2018-04-23 CC-MAIN-2018-17 | www.lapresse.ca | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2018-01-29 CC-MAIN-2018-05 | www.lapresse.ca | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-10-23 CC-MAIN-2017-43 | www.lapresse.ca | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-09-25 CC-MAIN-2017-39 | www.lapresse.ca | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-07-24 CC-MAIN-2017-30 | www.lapresse.ca | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-04-24 CC-MAIN-2017-17 | lapresse.ca | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-01-23 CC-MAIN-2017-04 | lapresse.ca | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2016-10-03 CC-MAIN-2016-40 | www.lapresse.ca | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2016-09-05 CC-MAIN-2016-36 | lapresse.ca | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
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