lg.com: what it tells AI crawlers

On 27 October 2026, lg.com's robots.txt allowed all of GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Google-Extended, PerplexityBot and CCBot; it also published llms.txt.

Last verified 2026-10-28 03:59 UTC (daily run of 2026-10-27). Proof for that day.

Panel
top 1k (Tranco)
robots.txt
ok (HTTP 200) · https://www.lg.com:443/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-26 · sha256 46035ac91b468df4… · view as recorded
The * group
allows applies to every agent without its own group

Per AI bot, 2026-10-27

User agentVerdictHow
GPTBotallowsthrough the * group
OAI-SearchBotallowsthrough the * group
ChatGPT-Userallowsthrough the * group
ClaudeBotallowsthrough the * group
Claude-SearchBotallowsthrough the * group
Claude-Userallowsthrough the * group
PerplexityBotallowsthrough the * group
Perplexity-Userallowsthrough the * group
Googlebotallowsthrough the * group
Google-Extendedallowsthrough the * group
Applebot-Extendedallowsthrough the * group
CCBotallowsthrough the * group
Bytespiderallowsthrough the * group
Meta-ExternalAgentallowsthrough the * group
Amazonbotallowsthrough the * group

Other signals

Publishes /llms.txtyes
Publishes /ai.txtno
Publishes /.well-known/tdmrep.jsonno
Reserves TDM rights (TDMRep file, header or meta)no
Declares Content Signals (robots.txt or header)no
Says ai-train=no in a Content Signalno
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 directivesno
Refused our fetcher (403 / challenge)no

llms.txt: "LG Electronics (lg.com) – Official Content Guide for AI (Global Hub)", 2,253 bytes, 11 links.

robots.txt as recorded sha256 94c4903123571a69…

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: Disallow: /*/*.ldwf* 
Disallow: /*/support/product-help/doc*
Disallow: /*/support/videos/videos-tutorials-layer*
Disallow: /*/support/error-pages
Disallow: /error
Disallow: /common/bug
Disallow: /common/content_*
Disallow: /common/error
Disallow: /common/search/
Disallow: /common/support
Disallow: /templatedata
Disallow: /war
Disallow: /download/support/contactus
Disallow: /download/support
Disallow: /*.ajax$
Disallow: /us/about-lg/investor-relations/
Disallow: /*gclid
Disallow: /us/includes/
Disallow: /us/cms-templates/
Disallow: /us/common/
Disallow: /us/compare/
Disallow: /us/sys/
Disallow: /us/application-data
Disallow: /us/secure
Disallow: /*/products/wtb*
Disallow: /compare.lg?*
Disallow: /*/*.swf$
Disallow: /mylg/
Disallow: /flash/
Disallow: /*/*/reviews/product/*
Disallow: /lgecs.downloadFile.ldwf?*
Disallow: /es/HEProductExperiencePage
Disallow: /es/HEProductExperiencePage/
Disallow: /es/HEProductExperiencePage/tv/main
Disallow: /*/srch*
Disallow: /*?search=*
Disallow: /*?bvrrp=*
Disallow: /*_escaped_fragment*
Disallow: /*?lgeurl=*
Disallow: /*/response/*
Disallow: /*/popup/*
Disallow: /*/search.lg*
Disallow: /au/pdfs/*
Disallow: /nz/pdfs/*
Disallow: /*.jsp?subCatId
Disallow: /*.jsp?value
Disallow: /*.jsp?contextPath
Disallow: /*.jsp?ref_no
Disallow: /*.jsp?s_kwcid
Disallow: /*.jsp?cmpid
Disallow: /jp/support/repair-warranty/locate-repair-center-detail/*
Disallow: /jp/mobile-phones/download-page/* 

User-agent: Baiduspider
Disallow: /*/wtb?modelName=*
Disallow: /*/my-support
Disallow: /*/mylg-login
Disallow: /*?cmpid
Disallow: /*/player?videoId=
Disallow: /*/embedded-player?videoId=

User-agent: Yandex
Allow: /
Disallow: /error
Disallow: /common/bug
Disallow: /common/content_*
Disallow: /common/error
Disallow: /common/support
Disallow: /templatedata
Disallow: /war
Disallow: /download/support/contactus
Disallow: /adm
Disallow: /Admin
Disallow: /download/support
Disallow: /*.ajax$
Disallow: /us/about-lg/investor-relations/
Disallow: /es/HEProductExperiencePage
Disallow: /es/HEProductExperiencePage/
Disallow: /es/HEProductExperiencePage/tv/main
Disallow: /*cmpid*
Disallow: /*product-help/CT
Disallow: /*locate-repair-center-detail/
Disallow: /*video-tutorials/CT
Disallow: /*utm_
Disallow: /*/search.lg*
Disallow: /*/response/*
Disallow: /*?search=*
Disallow: /*/popup/*
Disallow: /*?bvrrp=*
Disallow: /*/srch*
Clean-param: utm_source&utm_medium&utm_term&utm_campaign&utm_content / 
Clean-param: gclid /
Clean-param:countryCd /*.jsp
Clean-param:subCatId /*.jsp
Clean-param:value /*.jsp
Clean-param:contextPath /*.jsp
Clean-param:ref_no /*.jspA
Clean-param:s_kwcid /*.jsp
Clean-param:cmpid /*.jsp

# LGEUS-744
User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow:

User-agent: Googlebot-image
Disallow: 
# LGEUS-744

# Sitemap files
Sitemap: https://www.lg.com/sitemap.xml

Host: www.lg.com

User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
Allow:/*.jsp?cmpid

User-agent: AdsBot-Google
Allow: /*.jsp?cmpid

User-agent: AdsBot-Google-Mobile
Allow: /*.jsp?cmpid

robots.txt versions

FromThroughStateVersion
2026-10-262026-10-28ok 20046035ac91b46

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.lg.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2025-09-15 CC-MAIN-2025-38www.lg.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2024-09-16 CC-MAIN-2024-38www.lg.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2023-10-02 CC-MAIN-2023-40www.lg.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2022-10-03 CC-MAIN-2022-40www.lg.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2021-09-27 CC-MAIN-2021-39www.lg.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2020-09-28 CC-MAIN-2020-40www.lg.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2019-09-23 CC-MAIN-2019-39www.lg.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2018-09-24 CC-MAIN-2018-39www.lg.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2018-04-23 CC-MAIN-2018-17www.lg.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2018-01-29 CC-MAIN-2018-05www.lg.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2017-10-23 CC-MAIN-2017-43www.lg.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2017-09-25 CC-MAIN-2017-39www.lg.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2017-07-24 CC-MAIN-2017-30www.lg.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2017-04-24 CC-MAIN-2017-17lg.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2017-01-23 CC-MAIN-2017-04www.lg.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2016-10-03 CC-MAIN-2016-40www.lg.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2016-09-05 CC-MAIN-2016-36lg.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows

Evidence

Every daily observation of lg.com 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/lg.com