launchpad.net: what it tells AI crawlers
On 27 October 2026, launchpad.net's robots.txt fully blocked GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Google-Extended, PerplexityBot and CCBot; it also signalled ai-train=no.
Last verified 2026-10-28 03:59 UTC (daily run of 2026-10-27). Proof for that day.
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- ok (HTTP 200) · https://launchpad.net/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-26 · sha2569cf965426fc37646…· 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 | allows | through the * group |
| ClaudeBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Claude-SearchBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Claude-User | blocks | named in its own 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 |
| aiHitBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| cohere-ai | blocks | named in its own group |
| cohere-training-data-crawler | blocks | named in its own group |
| Cotoyogi | blocks | named in its own group |
| Diffbot | blocks | named in its own group |
| DuckAssistBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| FacebookBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Factset_spyderbot | blocks | named in its own group |
| FirecrawlAgent | blocks | named in its own group |
| Google-CloudVertexBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| ICC-Crawler | blocks | named in its own group |
| ImagesiftBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| meta-externalfetcher | blocks | named in its own group |
| omgili | blocks | named in its own group |
| omgilibot | blocks | named in its own group |
| PanguBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| PetalBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Scrapy | blocks | named in its own group |
| SemrushBot-OCOB | blocks | named in its own group |
| TikTokSpider | blocks | named in its own group |
| Timpibot | blocks | named in its own group |
| VelenPublicWebCrawler | 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 | 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) | yes |
| Says ai-train=no in a Content Signal | yes |
| 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 |
Content signals: ai-train=no, search=yes, ai-input=no for *
robots.txt as recorded sha256 9cf965426fc37646…
# Block all known AI crawlers and assistants # from using content for training AI models. # Source: https://robotstxt.com/ai User-Agent: GPTBot User-Agent: ClaudeBot User-Agent: Claude-User User-Agent: Claude-SearchBot User-Agent: CCBot User-Agent: Google-Extended User-Agent: Applebot-Extended User-Agent: Facebookbot User-Agent: Meta-ExternalAgent User-Agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher User-Agent: diffbot User-Agent: PerplexityBot User-Agent: Perplexity‑User User-Agent: Omgili User-Agent: Omgilibot User-Agent: webzio-extended User-Agent: ImagesiftBot User-Agent: Bytespider User-Agent: TikTokSpider User-Agent: Amazonbot User-Agent: Youbot User-Agent: SemrushBot-OCOB User-Agent: Petalbot User-Agent: VelenPublicWebCrawler User-Agent: TurnitinBot User-Agent: Timpibot User-Agent: OAI-SearchBot User-Agent: ICC-Crawler User-Agent: AI2Bot User-Agent: AI2Bot-Dolma User-Agent: DataForSeoBot User-Agent: AwarioBot User-Agent: AwarioSmartBot User-Agent: AwarioRssBot User-Agent: Google-CloudVertexBot User-Agent: PanguBot User-Agent: Kangaroo Bot User-Agent: Sentibot User-Agent: img2dataset User-Agent: Meltwater User-Agent: Seekr User-Agent: peer39_crawler User-Agent: cohere-ai User-Agent: cohere-training-data-crawler User-Agent: DuckAssistBot User-Agent: Scrapy User-Agent: Cotoyogi User-Agent: aiHitBot User-Agent: Factset_spyderbot User-Agent: FirecrawlAgent Disallow: / DisallowAITraining: / # Block any non-specified AI crawlers (e.g., new # or unknown bots) from using content for training # AI models, while allowing the website to be # indexed and accessed by bots. These directives # are still experimental and may not be supported # by all AI crawlers. User-agent: * DisallowAITraining: / Content-Usage: ai=n Content-Signal: ai-train=no, search=yes, ai-input=no Allow: / Disallow: /api/ Disallow: /+loggerhead/ Disallow: /*utouch* Disallow: /ubuntu/+source/utouch*
robots.txt versions
| From | Through | State | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-26 | 2026-10-27 | ok 200 | 9cf965426fc3 |
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 | launchpad.net | ok view | blocks | blocks | unknown | blocks | blocks | unknown | blocks |
| 2025-09-15 CC-MAIN-2025-38 | launchpad.net | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2024-09-16 CC-MAIN-2024-38 | launchpad.net | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2023-10-02 CC-MAIN-2023-40 | launchpad.net | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2022-10-03 CC-MAIN-2022-40 | launchpad.net | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2021-09-27 CC-MAIN-2021-39 | launchpad.net | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2020-09-28 CC-MAIN-2020-40 | launchpad.net | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2019-09-23 CC-MAIN-2019-39 | launchpad.net | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2018-09-24 CC-MAIN-2018-39 | launchpad.net | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-09-25 CC-MAIN-2017-39 | launchpad.net | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2016-10-03 CC-MAIN-2016-40 | launchpad.net | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2016-09-05 CC-MAIN-2016-36 | launchpad.net | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
Evidence
Every daily observation of launchpad.net 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/launchpad.net