leboncoin.fr: what it tells AI crawlers

On 27 October 2026, leboncoin.fr'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.

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top 10k (Tranco)
robots.txt
ok (HTTP 200) · https://www.leboncoin.fr/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-26 · sha256 bac2f1bf88edc5f0… · view as recorded

Per AI bot, 2026-10-27

User agentVerdictHow
GPTBotallowsnamed in its own group
OAI-SearchBotallowsnamed in its own group
ChatGPT-Userallowsnamed in its own group
ClaudeBotallowsnamed in its own group
Claude-SearchBotallowsnamed in its own group
Claude-Userallowsnamed in its own group
PerplexityBotallowsnamed in its own group
Perplexity-Userallowsnamed in its own group
Googlebotallowsnamed in its own group
Google-Extendedallowsnamed in its own group
Applebot-Extendedallowsnamed in its own group
CCBotallowsnamed in its own group
Bytespiderblocksnamed in its own group
Meta-ExternalAgentallowsno applicable rules
Amazonbotallowsno applicable rules
anthropic-aiallowsnamed in its own group
Applebotallowsnamed in its own group
DuckAssistBotallowsnamed in its own group
facebookexternalhitblocksnamed in its own group
MistralAI-Indexallowsnamed in its own group
MistralAI-Userallowsnamed in its own group

Other signals

Publishes /llms.txtnot observed
Publishes /ai.txtnot observed
Publishes /.well-known/tdmrep.jsonnot 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 Signalnot 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 directivesnot observed
Refused our fetcher (403 / challenge)no

robots.txt as recorded sha256 cf5542353e61d0db…

## It's forbidden to use search robots or other automatic methods to access Leboncoin.fr.
## Access is only permitted with special permission from Leboncoin.fr.

## Google
User-agent: Googlebot
# friendly exceptions
# www2 only
Allow: /livres
Allow: /linge_de_maison
Disallow: /ai
Disallow: /cp
Disallow: /support
Disallow: /account
# Adviews
Disallow: /annonce/
Disallow: /li
# Bloquage des Demandes
Disallow: /*/demandes/
# all
Disallow: /*th=0
Disallow: /aw
Disallow: /st
Disallow: /maintenance.html
# Blocage des /Recherche (Rav)
Disallow: /recherche
Disallow: /boutique/*/*print=0
Disallow: /boutique/*.htm?*ca=*_k&*
#on autorise boutiques (.htm)
Allow: /boutique*
#on autorise les html
Allow: /*/*.html
#on bloque les annonces avec et sans parametres
Disallow: /*/*.htm
Disallow: /*/bonnes_affaires/
Allow: /*

User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
# friendly exceptions
# www2 only
Allow: /livres
Allow: /linge_de_maison
Disallow: /ai
Disallow: /cp
Disallow: /support
Disallow: /account
# Adviews
Disallow: /annonce/
Disallow: /li
# Bloquage des Demandes
Disallow: /*/demandes/
# all
Disallow: /*th=0
Disallow: /aw
Disallow: /st
Disallow: /maintenance.html
# Blocage des /Recherche (Rav)
Disallow: /recherche
Disallow: /boutique/*/*print=0
Allow: /*

## Yahoo
User-agent: slurp
# friendly exceptions
# www2 only
Allow: /livres
Allow: /linge_de_maison
Disallow: /ai
Disallow: /cp
Disallow: /support
Disallow: /account
# Adviews
Disallow: /annonce/
Disallow: /li
# Bloquage des Demandes
Disallow: /*/demandes/
# all
Disallow: /*th=0
Disallow: /aw
Disallow: /st
Disallow: /maintenance.html
# Blocage des /Recherche (Rav)
Disallow: /recherche
Disallow: /boutique/*/*print=0
Allow: /*

# Googlebot Mobile
User-agent: Googlebot-Mobile
# Bloquage des Demandes
Disallow: /*/demandes/
# www2 only
Allow: /livres
Allow: /linge_de_maison
Disallow: /ai
Disallow: /cp
Disallow: /support
Disallow: /account
# Adviews
Disallow: /annonce/
Disallow: /li
# Bloquage des Demandes
Disallow: /*/demandes/
# all
Disallow: /*th=0
Disallow: /aw
Disallow: /st
Disallow: /maintenance.html
# Blocage des /Recherche (Rav)
Disallow: /recherche
Disallow: /boutique/*/*print=0
Disallow: /boutique/*.htm?*ca=*_k&*
#on autorise boutiques (.htm)
Allow: /boutique*
#on autorise les html
Allow: /*/*.html
#on bloque les annonces avec et sans parametres
Disallow: /*/*.htm
Disallow: /*/bonnes_affaires/
Allow: /*

User-agent: msnbot
# www2 only
Allow: /livres
Allow: /linge_de_maison
Disallow: /ai
Disallow: /cp
Disallow: /support
Disallow: /account
# Adviews
Disallow: /annonce/
Disallow: /li
# Bloquage des Demandes
Disallow: /*/demandes/
# all
Disallow: /*th=0
Disallow: /aw
Disallow: /st
Disallow: /maintenance.html
# Blocage des /Recherche (Rav)
Disallow: /recherche
Disallow: /boutique/*/*print=0
Allow: /*

# allow archive.org to screenshot all our pages
User-agent: ia_archiver
Disallow:

# Allow proximic to access all our pages
User-agent: proximic
Disallow:

User-agent: Speobot
Disallow: /

robots.txt versions

FromThroughStateVersion
2026-10-262026-10-27ok 200bac2f1bf88ed

Timeline of changes

DateWhat 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.

CrawlHostStateGPTBotOAI-SearchBotChatGPT-UserClaudeBotClaude-SearchBotClaude-UserPerplexityBot
2026-09-21 CC-MAIN-2026-39www.leboncoin.frok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2025-09-15 CC-MAIN-2025-38www.leboncoin.frok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2024-09-16 CC-MAIN-2024-38www.leboncoin.frok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2023-10-02 CC-MAIN-2023-40www.leboncoin.frok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2022-10-03 CC-MAIN-2022-40www2.leboncoin.frredirect-onlyunknownunknownunknownunknownunknownunknownunknown
2021-09-27 CC-MAIN-2021-39www2.leboncoin.frok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2020-09-28 CC-MAIN-2020-40www2.leboncoin.frok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2019-09-23 CC-MAIN-2019-39www2.leboncoin.frok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2018-09-24 CC-MAIN-2018-39www2.leboncoin.frok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2017-09-25 CC-MAIN-2017-39www2.leboncoin.frok viewblocksblocksunknownblocksblocksunknownblocks
2017-07-24 CC-MAIN-2017-30www2.leboncoin.frok viewblocksblocksunknownblocksblocksunknownblocks
2017-04-24 CC-MAIN-2017-17leboncoin.frredirect-onlyunknownunknownunknownunknownunknownunknownunknown
2017-01-23 CC-MAIN-2017-04www2.leboncoin.frok viewblocksblocksunknownblocksblocksunknownblocks
2016-10-03 CC-MAIN-2016-40leboncoin.frredirect-onlyunknownunknownunknownunknownunknownunknownunknown
2016-09-05 CC-MAIN-2016-36leboncoin.frredirect-onlyunknownunknownunknownunknownunknownunknownunknown

Evidence

Every daily observation of leboncoin.fr 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/leboncoin.fr