lefigaro.fr: what it tells AI crawlers
On 27 October 2026, lefigaro.fr's robots.txt fully blocked GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Google-Extended and CCBot; it also reserved TDM rights.
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.lefigaro.fr/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-26 · sha256f6127a8af3818c9e…· 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 | blocks | named in its own group |
| PerplexityBot | allows | through the * group |
| Perplexity-User | allows | through the * group |
| Googlebot | allows | through the * group |
| Google-Extended | blocks | named in its own group |
| Applebot-Extended | allows | through the * group |
| CCBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Bytespider | allows | through the * group |
| Meta-ExternalAgent | allows | through the * group |
| Amazonbot | blocks | named in its own group |
| anthropic-ai | blocks | named in its own group |
| ApifyBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| ApifyWebsiteContentCrawler | blocks | named in its own group |
| Brightbot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Claude-Web | blocks | named in its own group |
| CloudVertexBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| cohere-ai | blocks | named in its own group |
| CragCrawler | blocks | named in its own group |
| Diffbot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Diffbot-User | blocks | named in its own group |
| ExaBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| ExaSearchBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| FirecrawlAgent | blocks | named in its own group |
| GeistHaus-PageFetcher | blocks | named in its own group |
| Gemini-Deep-Research | blocks | named in its own group |
| Google-CloudVertexBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Google-NotebookLM | blocks | named in its own group |
| GoogleAgent-Mariner | blocks | named in its own group |
| Kimi-SearchBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Kimi-User | blocks | named in its own group |
| KimiBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| MistralAI-User | blocks | named in its own group |
| omgili | blocks | named in its own group |
| omgilibot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Querit-SearchBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| QueritBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Scrapy | blocks | named in its own group |
| ShapBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| TavilyBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| UseAI | 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 | yes |
| Reserves TDM rights (TDMRep file, header or meta) | yes |
| 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 |
TDMRep rules: / reservation=1
robots.txt as recorded sha256 f6127a8af3818c9e…
# :. # ++. # .+**: # .+****. # =******.. # .********:. # -*********-. # =***********#FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF#. # .-************#FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF#. # .++=*************#FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF#. # .+****************FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF#. # -****************#FFFFFFFF# .#FFFFFFFF#. # .+***************#FFFFFFF# .=+++++++++. # .+**************#FFFFFF# # .-+************FFFFFF# # .-**************FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF: # .-************FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF: # ..=*********FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF: # .##******FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF: # #FFFF##*FFFFFF#*+. # #FFFFFFFFFFFFF#***=. # #FFFFFFFFFFFFF# .:+*-. # .#FFFFFFFFFFFFF#. -*- # +FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF- :+. # +FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF- .-=. # +FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF- .=-. # +FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF- .+. # Toute utilisation de nos contenus protégés autre qu'un usage strictement individuel (incluant notamment l'entraînement des grands modèles de langage (LLM), # l'entraînement des outils d'intelligence artificielle, la veille web ou le media monitoring) est conditionnée à la conclusion d'une licence d'utilisation # avec la SOCIETE DU FIGARO. Nous vous invitons à cette fin à contacter syndication-service@lefigaro.fr. # # Toute utilisation non-autorisée de nos contenus protégés est constitutive d'une contrefaçon de droit d'auteur et/ou du droit de producteur # de base de données et susceptible d'être poursuivie. # # Il est interdit de crawler notre site web en utilisant un agent d'utilisateur (user agent) volé qui ne correspond pas à votre identité. # L'utilisation des robots d'indexation web ou d'autres méthodes automatiques de feuilletage ou de navigation sur ce site Web n'est pas autorisée. #Généralités User-agent: * Disallow: /async/ Disallow: /*?noheader* Disallow: /*?*&noheader* Disallow: /*?sfdebug* Disallow: /*?*&sfdebug* Disallow: /brouillon/ Disallow: /proxy/ Disallow: /synsearch/ Disallow: /a-savoir-en-france/ Disallow: /vos-questions #LLM User-agent: ChatGPT-User Allow: /voyages Allow: /culture Allow: /style Allow: /beaute Allow: /joaillerie Allow: /mode-homme Allow: /horlogerie Allow: /bons-plans Allow: /elections/resultats Disallow: / User-agent: Claude-SearchBot Allow: /voyages Allow: /bons-plans Allow: /elections/resultats Disallow: / User-agent: Claude-Web Allow: /voyages Allow: /bons-plans Allow: /elections/resultats Disallow: / User-agent: OAI-SearchBot Allow: /voyages Allow: /culture Allow: /style Allow: /beaute Allow: /joaillerie Allow: /mode-homme Allow: /horlogerie Allow: /bons-plans Allow: /elections/resultats Disallow: / User-agent: Claude-User Allow: /voyages Allow: /bons-plans Allow: /elections/resultats Disallow: / User-agent: ChatGPT Agent Allow: /voyages Allow: /bons-plans Allow: /elections/resultats Disallow: / User-agent: GoogleAgent-Mariner Allow: /voyages Allow: /bons-plans Allow: /elections/resultats Disallow: / User-agent: Google-NotebookLM Allow: /voyages Allow: /bons-plans Allow: /elections/resultats Disallow: / User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot Allow: /voyages Allow: /bons-plans Allow: /elections/resultats Disallow: / User-agent: MistralAI-User Allow: /voyages Allow: /bons-plans Allow: /elections/resultats Disallow: / User-agent: Gemini-Deep-Research Allow: /voyages Allow: /bons-plans Allow: /elections/resultats Disallow: / User-agent: CloudVertexBot Disallow: / User-agent: anthropic-ai Disallow: / User-agent: CCBot Disallow: / User-agent: ClaudeBot Disallow: / User-agent: cohere-ai Disallow: / User-agent: CohereBot Disallow: / User-agent: GPTBot Disallow: / User-agent: Google-Extended Disallow: / User-agent: Kimi-SearchBot Disallow: / User-agent: Kimi-User Disallow: / User-agent: KimiBot Disallow: / #Crawler User-agent: Alexibot Disallow: / User-agent: AlvinetSpider Disallow: / User-agent: AmiSoftware Disallow: / User-agent: Antenne Hatena Disallow: / User-agent: ApifyBot Disallow: / User-agent: ApifyWebsiteContentCrawler Disallow: / User-agent: ApocalXExplorerBot Disallow: / User-agent: Argus Disallow: / User-agent: Ask n read Disallow: / User-agent: asknread.com Disallow: / User-agent: asterias Disallow: / User-agent: BlowFish/1.0 Disallow: / User-agent: BotALot Disallow: / User-agent: Brightbot Disallow: / User-agent: BuiltBotTough Disallow: / User-agent: Bullseye/1.0 Disallow: / User-agent: BunnySlippers Disallow: / User-agent: Cegbfeieh Disallow: / User-agent: CheeseBot Disallow: / User-agent: ConveraCrawler Disallow: / User-agent: cosmos Disallow: / User-agent: CragCrawler Disallow: / User-agent: Crescent Disallow: / User-agent: Crescent Internet ToolPak HTTP OLE Control v.1.0 Disallow: / User-agent: cydralspider Disallow: / User-agent: Diffbot Disallow: / User-agent: Diffbot-User Disallow: / User-agent: DISCo Pump 3.1 Disallow: / User-agent: DittoSpyder Disallow: / User-agent: EroCrawler Disallow: / User-agent: eureka Disallow: / User-agent: ExaBot Disallow: / User-agent: ExaSearchBot Disallow: / User-agent: Explore Disallow: / User-agent: Fetch Disallow: / User-agent: FirecrawlAgent Disallow: / User-agent: Flamingo_SearchEngine Disallow: / User-agent: Foobot Disallow: / User-agent: gammaSpider Disallow: / User-agent: GeistHaus-PageFetcher Disallow: / User-agent: grub-client Disallow: / User-agent: hloader Disallow: / User-agent: httplib Disallow: / User-agent: humanlinks Disallow: / User-agent: ia_archiver Allow: /$ Disallow: / User-agent: ia_archiver-web.archive.org Allow: /$ Disallow: / User-agent: indexer Disallow: / User-agent: InfoNaviRobot Disallow: / User-agent: infoseek Disallow: / User-agent: JennyBot Disallow: / User-agent: Jetbot Disallow: / User-agent: JikeSpider Disallow: / User-agent: k2spider Disallow: / User-agent: Kenjin Spider Disallow: / User-agent: larbin Disallow: / User-agent: LexiBot Disallow: / User-agent: libWeb/clsHTTP Disallow: / User-agent: libwww Disallow: / User-agent: linko Disallow: / User-agent: LinkScan/8.1a Unix Disallow: / User-agent: LinkWalker Disallow: / User-agent: lwp-trivial Disallow: / User-agent: lwp-trivial/1.34 Disallow: / User-agent: Mata Hari Disallow: / User-agent: Mister PiX Disallow: / User-agent: MLBot Disallow: / User-agent: moget Disallow: / User-agent: moget/2.1 Disallow: / User-agent: Naverbot Disallow: / User-agent: NetAttache Disallow: / User-agent: Newzbin Disallow: / User-agent: NICErsPRO Disallow: / User-agent: NPBot Disallow: / User-agent: ObjectsSearch Disallow: / User-agent: omgili Disallow: / User-agent: omgilibot Disallow: / User-agent: Openfind Disallow: / User-agent: OpenindexSpider Disallow: / User-agent: Pimptrain Disallow: / User-agent: ProPowerBot/2.14 Disallow: / User-agent: ProWebWalker Disallow: / User-agent: psbot Disallow: / User-agent: QuepasaCreep Disallow: / User-agent: Querit-SearchBot Disallow: / User-agent: QueritBot Disallow: / User-agent: QueryN Metasearch Disallow: / User-agent: Raven Disallow: / User-agent: RepoMonkey Disallow: / User-agent: RMA Disallow: / User-agent: Scrapy Disallow: / User-agent: ShapBot Disallow: / User-agent: SiteBot Disallow: / User-agent: Sogou web spider Disallow: / User-agent: sosospider Disallow: / User-agent: SpankBot Disallow: / User-agent: Speedy Disallow: / User-agent: spotter Disallow: / User-agent: suggybot Disallow: / User-agent: SuperBot Disallow: / User-agent: SuperBot/2.6 Disallow: / User-agent: suzuran Disallow: / User-agent: Szukacz/1.4 Disallow: / User-agent: Telesoft Disallow: / User-agent: The Intraformant Disallow: / User-agent: TheNomad Disallow: / User-agent: TightTwatBot Disallow: / User-agent: Titan Disallow: / User-agent: toCrawl/UrlDispatcher Disallow: / User-agent: TosCrawler Disallow: / User-agent: True_Robot Disallow: / User-agent: True_Robot/1.0 Disallow: / User-agent: turingos Disallow: / User-agent: URLy Warning Disallow: / User-agent: VCI Disallow: / User-agent: vsw Disallow: / User-agent: wapspider Disallow: / User-agent: WebBandit Disallow: / User-agent: WebBandit/3.50 Disallow: / User-agent: WebEnhancer Disallow: / User-agent: WebmasterWorldForumBot Disallow: / User-agent: Webster Pro Disallow: / User-agent: WebZinger Disallow: / User-agent: Webzio-Extended Disallow: / User-agent: WWW-Collector-E Disallow: / User-agent: yacy Disallow: / User-agent: yandex Disallow: / User-agent: YRSPider Disallow: / User-agent: Zealbot Disallow: / User-agent: Zeus Disallow: / User-agent: Zite Disallow: / User-agent: Zookabot Disallow: / User-agent: ZyBORG Disallow: / #Outil User-agent: 5emeRue Disallow: / User-agent: 5erue Disallow: / User-agent: adequat Disallow: / User-agent: adequat-systems Disallow: / User-agent: Amazonbot Disallow: / User-agent: Augure Disallow: / User-agent: auramundi Disallow: / User-agent: BizInformation Disallow: / User-agent: Bloomberg Disallow: / User-agent: CherryPicker Disallow: / User-agent: CherryPickerElite/1.0 Disallow: / User-agent: CherryPickerSE/1.0 Disallow: / User-agent: Cision Disallow: / User-agent: coexel Disallow: / User-agent: CopyRightCheck Disallow: / User-agent: Corporama Disallow: / User-agent: Digimind Disallow: / User-agent: dotbot Disallow: / User-agent: Download Ninja Disallow: / User-agent: downloadexpress Disallow: / User-agent: ellisphere Disallow: / User-agent: EmailCollector Disallow: / User-agent: EmailSiphon Disallow: / User-agent: EmailWolf Disallow: / User-agent: Europresse Disallow: / User-agent: ExtractorPro Disallow: / User-agent: Fasterfox Disallow: / User-agent: HTTrack Disallow: / User-agent: HTTrack 3.0 Disallow: / User-agent: Igentia Disallow: / User-agent: Kantar Disallow: / User-agent: kbcrawl Disallow: / User-agent: Knowings Disallow: / User-agent: leadbox Disallow: / User-agent: LinkextractorPro Disallow: / User-agent: linkfluence Disallow: / User-agent: manageo Disallow: / User-agent: mediacompil Disallow: / User-agent: mention Disallow: / User-agent: Moreover Disallow: / User-agent: mytwip Disallow: / User-agent: NetAnts Disallow: / User-agent: NetMechanic Disallow: / User-agent: newscan-online Disallow: / User-agent: NewsNow Disallow: / User-agent: Offline Explorer Disallow: / User-agent: opinion-tracker Disallow: / User-agent: Qwam content intelligence Disallow: / User-agent: readability.com Disallow: / User-agent: scoop.it Disallow: / User-agent: score3 Disallow: / User-agent: SemrushBot Disallow: / User-agent: SightupBot Disallow: / User-agent: Sindup Disallow: / User-agent: SirdataBot Disallow: / User-agent: SiteSnagger Disallow: / User-agent: SiteSucker Disallow: / User-agent: Synthesio Disallow: / User-agent: Talkwalker Disallow: / User-agent: TavilyBot Disallow: / User-agent: Teleport Disallow: / User-agent: TeleportPro Disallow: / User-agent: trendeo Disallow: / User-agent: trendybuzz Disallow: / User-agent: TurnitinBot Disallow: / User-agent: up2news Disallow: / User-agent: UrlPouls Disallow: / User-agent: UseAI Disallow: / User-agent: vecteurplus Disallow: / User-agent: Verif Disallow: / User-agent: verticalsearch Disallow: / User-agent: Web Image Collector Disallow: / User-agent: WebAuto Disallow: / User-agent: WebCopier Disallow: / User-agent: webcopy Disallow: / User-agent: Webedia Disallow: / User-agent: webmirror Disallow: / User-agent: WebReaper Disallow: / User-agent: WebSauger Disallow: / User-agent: website extractor Disallow: / User-agent: Website Quester Disallow: / User-agent: WebStripper Disallow: / User-agent: WebStripper/2.02 Disallow: / User-agent: WebZIP Disallow: / User-agent: Wget Disallow: / User-agent: WikioFeedBot Disallow: / User-agent: winello Disallow: / User-agent: WinHTTrack Disallow: / User-agent: Xenu Link Sleuth/1.3.8 Disallow: / User-agent: YouBot Disallow: / User-agent: Youmag Disallow: / Sitemap: https://sitemaps.lefigaro.fr/lefigaro.fr/articles.xml Sitemap: https://sitemaps.lefigaro.fr/lefigaro.fr/sections.xml Sitemap: https://sitemaps.lefigaro.fr/lefigaro.fr/topics.xml Sitemap: https://www.lefigaro.fr/sitemap_news.xml Sitemap: https://sitemaps.lefigaro.fr/lefigaro.fr/elections/resultats/sitemap.xml Sitemap: https://static.lefigaro.fr/f1/lefigaro/sitemaps/robots-service.txt
robots.txt versions
| From | Through | State | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-26 | 2026-10-28 | ok 200 | f6127a8af381 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-15 CC-MAIN-2025-38 | www.lefigaro.fr | ok view | blocks | blocks | unknown | blocks | blocks | unknown | blocks |
| 2024-09-16 CC-MAIN-2024-38 | www.lefigaro.fr | ok view | blocks | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2023-10-02 CC-MAIN-2023-40 | www.lefigaro.fr | ok view | blocks | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2022-10-03 CC-MAIN-2022-40 | www.lefigaro.fr | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2021-09-27 CC-MAIN-2021-39 | www.lefigaro.fr | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2020-09-28 CC-MAIN-2020-40 | www.lefigaro.fr | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2019-09-23 CC-MAIN-2019-39 | www.lefigaro.fr | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2018-09-24 CC-MAIN-2018-39 | www.lefigaro.fr | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2018-01-29 CC-MAIN-2018-05 | www.lefigaro.fr | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-10-23 CC-MAIN-2017-43 | www.lefigaro.fr | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-09-25 CC-MAIN-2017-39 | www.lefigaro.fr | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-07-24 CC-MAIN-2017-30 | www.lefigaro.fr | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-04-24 CC-MAIN-2017-17 | lefigaro.fr | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-01-23 CC-MAIN-2017-04 | lefigaro.fr | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2016-10-03 CC-MAIN-2016-40 | www.lefigaro.fr | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2016-09-05 CC-MAIN-2016-36 | lefigaro.fr | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
Evidence
Every daily observation of lefigaro.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/lefigaro.fr