lemonde.fr: what it tells AI crawlers
On 27 October 2026, lemonde.fr's robots.txt fully blocked ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Google-Extended and CCBot.
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://www.lemonde.fr/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-26 · sha256843d2d9af6837d4c…· 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 | allows | through the * group |
| OAI-SearchBot | allows | through the * 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 | 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 | blocks | named in its own group |
| CCBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Bytespider | blocks | named in its own group |
| Meta-ExternalAgent | allows | through the * group |
| Amazonbot | blocks | named in its own group |
| AddSearchBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| AIWebIndex | blocks | named in its own group |
| amazon-kendra | blocks | named in its own group |
| amazon-QBusiness | blocks | named in its own group |
| AmazonBuyForMe | blocks | named in its own group |
| Anomura | 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 |
| Aranet-SearchBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| atlassian-bot | blocks | named in its own group |
| AzureAI-SearchBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| bedrockbot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Bravebot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Brightbot | blocks | named in its own group |
| ChatGLM-Spider | blocks | named in its own group |
| Claude-Web | blocks | named in its own group |
| Cloudflare-AutoRAG | blocks | named in its own group |
| CloudVertexBot | 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 |
| CragCrawler | blocks | named in its own group |
| Crawlspace | blocks | named in its own group |
| DeepSeekBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Devin | blocks | named in its own group |
| Diffbot | blocks | named in its own group |
| DoubaoBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| DuckAssistBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| ERNIEBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| ExaBot | 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 |
| FriendlyCrawler | blocks | named in its own group |
| GeistHaus-PageFetcher | blocks | named in its own group |
| Gemini-Deep-Research | blocks | named in its own group |
| Google-Agent | 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 |
| GoogleAgent-URLContext | blocks | named in its own group |
| GoogleOther | blocks | named in its own group |
| HenkBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| iAskBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| iaskspider | blocks | named in its own group |
| ICC-Crawler | blocks | named in its own group |
| imageSpider | blocks | named in its own group |
| kagi-fetcher | 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 |
| KlaviyoAIBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| KunatoCrawler | blocks | named in its own group |
| laion-huggingface-processor | blocks | named in its own group |
| LCC | blocks | named in its own group |
| LinerBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| LinkupBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Manus-User | blocks | named in its own group |
| meta-webindexer | blocks | named in its own group |
| MistralAI-Index | blocks | named in its own group |
| MistralAI-User | blocks | named in its own group |
| MoonshotBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Mozilla-Tabstack | blocks | named in its own group |
| NovaAct | 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 |
| PhindBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Poggio-Citations | blocks | named in its own group |
| QualifiedBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Querit-SearchBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| QueritBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| QwenBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| SBIntuitionsBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| SemrushBot-OCOB | blocks | named in its own group |
| Shap-User | blocks | named in its own group |
| ShapBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Spider | blocks | named in its own group |
| TavilyBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| TerraCotta | blocks | named in its own group |
| Timpibot | blocks | named in its own group |
| TongyiBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| TwinAgent | blocks | named in its own group |
| UseAI | blocks | named in its own group |
| VelenPublicWebCrawler | blocks | named in its own group |
| Webzio-Extended | blocks | named in its own group |
| WRTNBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| YaK | blocks | named in its own group |
| YandexAdditional | blocks | named in its own group |
| YandexAdditionalBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| YiyanBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| YouBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| ZanistaBot | 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) | 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 |
robots.txt as recorded sha256 b865b63142217257…
# 24/11/2016 # Il est interdit d'utiliser des robots d'indexation Web ou d'autres méthodes automatiques de feuilletage ou de navigation sur ce site Web. # Nous interdisons de crawler notre site Web en utilisant un agent d'utilisateur volé qui ne correspond pas à votre identité. # « Violation du droit du producteur de base de données - article L 342-1 et suivant le Code de la propriété intellectuelle ». # Nous vous invitons à nous contacter pour contracter une licence d'utilisation. Seuls les partenaires sont habilités à utiliser nos contenus pour un usage autre que strictement individuel. # # User-agent: * Allow: /services-aux-internautes/article/2015/04/23/l-equipe-du-monde-fr_1673027_3388.html Allow: /archives/article/1980/* Allow: /archives/article/1981/* # Disallow: /ajah/ Disallow: /api/ Disallow: /archives/ Disallow: /beta Disallow: /cgi-bin/ACHATS/ Disallow: /element/commun/afficher/ Disallow: /petites-annonces/ Disallow: /qui-sommes-nous/ Disallow: /reactions/ Disallow: /services-aux-internautes/ Disallow: /txt/ Disallow: /web/ # # Sitemaps Sitemap: http://www.lemonde.fr/sitemap_news.xml Sitemap: http://www.lemonde.fr/sitemap_index.xml # User-agent: Googlebot-Image Allow: /image/ # User-agent: Googlebot-News Disallow: /archives/ # # Robots exclus de toute indexation. User-agent: Meltawer Disallow: / # User-agent: Digimind Disallow: / # User-agent: Knowings Disallow: / # User-agent: Sindup Disallow: / # User-agent: Cision Disallow: / # User-agent: Talkwater Disallow: / # User-agent: TurnitinBot Disallow: / # User-agent: ConveraCrawler Disallow: / # User-agent: QuepasaCreep Disallow: / # User-agent: Jetbot Disallow: / # User-agent: NewsNow Disallow: / # User-agent: kbcrawl Disallow: / # User-agent: AmiSoftware Disallow: / # User-agent: Newzbin Disallow: / # User-agent: Ask n read Disallow: / # User-agent: Qwam content intelligence Disallow: / # User-agent: Zite Disallow: / # User-agent: flipboard Disallow: / # User-agent: FlipboardProxy Disallow: / # User-agent: Youmag Disallow: / # User-agent: Synthesio Disallow: / # User-agent: trendybuzz Disallow: / # User-agent: spotter Disallow: / # User-agent: scoop.it Disallow: / # User-agent: linkfluence Disallow: / # User-agent: 5emeRue Disallow: / # User-agent: Augure Disallow: / # User-agent: Corporama Disallow: / # User-agent: readability.com Disallow: / # User-agent: grub-client Disallow: / # User-agent: ia_archiver Disallow: / # User-agent: ia_archiver-web.archive.org Disallow: / # User-agent: k2spider Disallow: / # User-agent: libwww Disallow: / # User-agent: wget Disallow: / # User-agent: 5erue Disallow: / # User-agent: adequat Disallow: / # User-agent: adequat-systems Disallow: / # User-agent: auramundi Disallow: / # User-agent: coexel Disallow: / # User-agent: ellisphere Disallow: / # User-agent: leadbox Disallow: / # User-agent: mention Disallow: / # User-agent: Moreover Disallow: / # User-agent: mytwip Disallow: / # User-agent: NewsNow Disallow: / # User-agent: Newzbin Disallow: / # User-agent: opinion-tracker Disallow: / # User-agent: proxem Disallow: / # User-agent: score3 Disallow: / # User-agent: trendeo Disallow: / # User-agent: vecteurplus Disallow: / # User-agent: verticalsearch Disallow: / # User-agent: vsw Disallow: / # User-agent: winello Disallow: / # User-agent: Fetch Disallow: / # User-agent: infoseek Disallow: / # User-agent: MSIECrawler Disallow: / # User-agent: Offline Explorer Disallow: / # User-agent: sitecheck.internetseer.com Disallow: / # User-agent: SiteSnagger Disallow: / # User-agent: Teleport Disallow: / # User-agent: TeleportPro Disallow: / # User-agent: WebCopier Disallow: / # User-agent: WebStripper Disallow: / # User-agent: Zealbot Disallow: / # User-agent: asknread.com Disallow: / # User-agent: ellisphere Disallow: / # User-agent: spotter Disallow: /
robots.txt versions
| From | Through | State | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-26 | 2026-10-27 | ok 200 | 843d2d9af683 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-10-02 CC-MAIN-2023-40 | www.lemonde.fr | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2022-10-03 CC-MAIN-2022-40 | www.lemonde.fr | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2021-09-27 CC-MAIN-2021-39 | www.lemonde.fr | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2020-09-28 CC-MAIN-2020-40 | www.lemonde.fr | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2019-09-23 CC-MAIN-2019-39 | www.lemonde.fr | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2018-09-24 CC-MAIN-2018-39 | www.lemonde.fr | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-09-25 CC-MAIN-2017-39 | www.lemonde.fr | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-01-23 CC-MAIN-2017-04 | lemonde.fr | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2016-10-03 CC-MAIN-2016-40 | www.lemonde.fr | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2016-09-05 CC-MAIN-2016-36 | lemonde.fr | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
Evidence
Every daily observation of lemonde.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/lemonde.fr