meraki.com: what it tells AI crawlers

On 27 October 2026, meraki.com's robots.txt refused our fetcher (HTTP 403 or a bot challenge), so its policy could not be read.

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

Panel
top 1k (Tranco)
robots.txt
fetch-blocked (HTTP 401) · https://meraki.cisco.com/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-27

Per AI bot, 2026-10-27

User agentVerdictHow
GPTBotunknownfetch-blocked
OAI-SearchBotunknownfetch-blocked
ChatGPT-Userunknownfetch-blocked
ClaudeBotunknownfetch-blocked
Claude-SearchBotunknownfetch-blocked
Claude-Userunknownfetch-blocked
PerplexityBotunknownfetch-blocked
Perplexity-Userunknownfetch-blocked
Googlebotunknownfetch-blocked
Google-Extendedunknownfetch-blocked
Applebot-Extendedunknownfetch-blocked
CCBotunknownfetch-blocked
Bytespiderunknownfetch-blocked
Meta-ExternalAgentunknownfetch-blocked
Amazonbotunknownfetch-blocked

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)yes

robots.txt as recorded sha256 97df1dd76ec8eb07…

################################# ROBOTS.TXT ###################################
# Updates can be retrieved from: https://github.com/jonasjacek/robots.txt      #
# This document is licensed with a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.                    #
# Last update: 2020-02-20                                                      #
################################################################################
User-agent: 360Spider
User-agent: 360Spider-Image
User-agent: 360Spider-Video
User-agent: AdsBot-Google
User-agent: AdsBot-Google-Mobile
User-agent: AdsBot-Google-Mobile-Apps
User-agent: adidxbot
User-agent: Applebot
User-agent: AppleNewsBot
User-agent: Baiduspider
User-agent: Baiduspider-image
User-agent: Baiduspider-news
User-agent: Baiduspider-video
User-agent: bingbot
User-agent: BingPreview
User-agent: BublupBot
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: Cliqzbot
User-agent: coccoc
User-agent: coccocbot-image
User-agent: coccocbot-web
User-agent: Daumoa
User-agent: Dazoobot
User-agent: DeuSu
User-agent: DuckDuckBot
User-agent: DuckDuckGo-Favicons-Bot
User-agent: EuripBot
User-agent: Exploratodo
User-agent: Facebot
User-agent: Feedly
User-agent: Findxbot
User-agent: Googlebot
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
User-agent: Googlebot-Mobile
User-agent: Googlebot-News
User-agent: Googlebot-Video
User-agent: HaoSouSpider
User-agent: ichiro
User-agent: istellabot
User-agent: JikeSpider
User-agent: Lycos
User-agent: Mail.Ru
User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
User-agent: MojeekBot
User-agent: msnbot
User-agent: msnbot-media
User-agent: OrangeBot
User-agent: Pinterest
User-agent: Plukkie
User-agent: Qwantify
User-agent: Rambler
User-agent: SeznamBot
User-agent: Sosospider
User-agent: Slurp
User-agent: Sogou blog
User-agent: Sogou inst spider
User-agent: Sogou News Spider
User-agent: Sogou Orion spider
User-agent: Sogou spider2
User-agent: Sogou web spider
User-agent: SputnikBot
User-agent: Teoma
User-agent: Twitterbot
User-agent: wotbox
User-agent: yacybot
User-agent: Yandex
User-agent: YandexMobileBot
User-agent: Yeti
User-agent: YioopBot
User-agent: yoozBot
User-agent: YoudaoBot
Disallow: /wp-admin/
User-agent: *
Disallow: /

robots.txt versions

FromThroughStateVersion
2026-10-272026-10-27fetch-blocked 401–
2026-10-262026-10-26ok 20097df1dd76ec8

Timeline of changes

DateWhat changed
2026-10-27robots.txt fetch: ok → fetch-blocked

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-2026-39meraki.comredirect-onlyunknownunknownunknownunknownunknownunknownunknown
2025-09-15 CC-MAIN-2025-38meraki.comredirect-onlyunknownunknownunknownunknownunknownunknownunknown
2024-09-16 CC-MAIN-2024-38meraki.comredirect-onlyunknownunknownunknownunknownunknownunknownunknown
2023-10-02 CC-MAIN-2023-40meraki.comredirect-onlyunknownunknownunknownunknownunknownunknownunknown
2022-10-03 CC-MAIN-2022-40meraki.comredirect-onlyunknownunknownunknownunknownunknownunknownunknown
2020-09-28 CC-MAIN-2020-40meraki.comredirect-onlyunknownunknownunknownunknownunknownunknownunknown
2019-09-23 CC-MAIN-2019-39meraki.comredirect-onlyunknownunknownunknownunknownunknownunknownunknown
2018-09-24 CC-MAIN-2018-39meraki.comredirect-onlyunknownunknownunknownunknownunknownunknownunknown
2017-09-25 CC-MAIN-2017-39meraki.comredirect-onlyunknownunknownunknownunknownunknownunknownunknown
2017-07-24 CC-MAIN-2017-30meraki.comredirect-onlyunknownunknownunknownunknownunknownunknownunknown
2017-04-24 CC-MAIN-2017-17www.meraki.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2017-01-23 CC-MAIN-2017-04www.meraki.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2016-10-03 CC-MAIN-2016-40www.meraki.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2016-09-05 CC-MAIN-2016-36www.meraki.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows

Evidence

Every daily observation of meraki.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/meraki.com