meta.com: what it tells AI crawlers
On 27 October 2026, meta.com'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.
- Panel
- top 1k (Tranco)
- robots.txt
- ok (HTTP 200) · https://www.meta.com/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-26 · sha2565be2af84fc90337b…· 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 | allows | through the * group |
| Claude-SearchBot | allows | through the * group |
| Claude-User | allows | through the * group |
| PerplexityBot | allows | through the * group |
| Perplexity-User | allows | through the * group |
| Googlebot | allows | through the * group |
| Google-Extended | allows | through the * group |
| Applebot-Extended | allows | through the * group |
| CCBot | allows | through the * group |
| Bytespider | allows | through the * group |
| Meta-ExternalAgent | allows | through the * group |
| Amazonbot | allows | through the * group |
| facebookexternalhit | allows | named in its own group |
| PetalBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Scrapy | blocks | named in its own group |
| YaK | 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 5be2af84fc90337b…
# Notice: Collection of data on Facebook through automated means is # prohibited unless you have express written permission from Facebook # and may only be conducted for the limited purpose contained in said # permission. # See: http://www.facebook.com/apps/site_scraping_tos_terms.php User-agent: facebookexternalhit Allow: * User-agent: meta-externalads Allow: * User-agent: * Disallow: /*cursor= Disallow: /*fb_comment_id= Disallow: /ajax/ Disallow: /tealium/ Disallow: /intern/ Disallow: /internal/ Disallow: /login/ Disallow: /oidc/callback/ Disallow: /*.php Disallow: */search/ Disallow: *help/support/ Disallow: *help_app/ Disallow: */rma/* Disallow: /a/fl? Disallow: /bv/upload/ Disallow: /campaign/ Disallow: /*?cjevent= Disallow: /*&cjevent= Disallow: /common/referer_frame.php Disallow: /connect/invite/ Disallow: /device-view/ Disallow: /*/device-view/ Disallow: /meta-employee-store/ Disallow: /order/ Disallow: /return/ Disallow: /s/ Disallow: /survey/ Disallow: /my/ Disallow: /rx/ Disallow: /cart/ Disallow: /bag/ User-agent: PetalBot Disallow: / User-agent: Scrapy Disallow: / User-agent: uptimerobot Disallow: / User-agent: viberbot Disallow: / User-agent: YaK Disallow: / User-agent: Yandex Disallow: / User-agent: Yeti Disallow: / Sitemap: https://www.meta.com/sitemap/www_meta_com_sitemap.xml.gz Sitemap: https://www.meta.com/sitemap/www_meta_com_help_sitemap.xml.gz Sitemap: https://www.meta.com/sitemap/www_meta_com_blog_sitemap.xml.gz Sitemap: https://www.meta.com/sitemap/www_meta_com_experiences_sitemap.xml.gz Sitemap: https://www.meta.com/sitemap/www_meta_com_about_sitemap.xml.gz Sitemap: https://www.meta.com/sitemap/www_meta_com_blog_news_sitemap.xml.gz Sitemap: https://www.meta.com/sitemap/www_meta_com_sitemap_zh_tw.xml.gz Sitemap: https://www.meta.com/sitemap/www_meta_com_sitemap_de_de.xml.gz Sitemap: https://www.meta.com/sitemap/www_meta_com_sitemap_es_es.xml.gz Sitemap: https://www.meta.com/sitemap/www_meta_com_sitemap_pl_pl.xml.gz Sitemap: https://www.meta.com/sitemap/www_meta_com_sitemap_da_dk.xml.gz Sitemap: https://www.meta.com/sitemap/www_meta_com_sitemap_de_at.xml.gz Sitemap: https://www.meta.com/sitemap/www_meta_com_sitemap_de_ch.xml.gz Sitemap: https://www.meta.com/sitemap/www_meta_com_sitemap_en_au.xml.gz Sitemap: https://www.meta.com/sitemap/www_meta_com_sitemap_en_ca.xml.gz Sitemap: https://www.meta.com/sitemap/www_meta_com_sitemap_en_ie.xml.gz Sitemap: https://www.meta.com/sitemap/www_meta_com_sitemap_en_nz.xml.gz Sitemap: https://www.meta.com/sitemap/www_meta_com_sitemap_en_sg.xml.gz Sitemap: https://www.meta.com/sitemap/www_meta_com_sitemap_fi_fi.xml.gz Sitemap: https://www.meta.com/sitemap/www_meta_com_sitemap_fr_be.xml.gz Sitemap: https://www.meta.com/sitemap/www_meta_com_sitemap_fr_ca.xml.gz Sitemap: https://www.meta.com/sitemap/www_meta_com_sitemap_fr_ch.xml.gz Sitemap: https://www.meta.com/sitemap/www_meta_com_sitemap_fr_fr.xml.gz Sitemap: https://www.meta.com/sitemap/www_meta_com_sitemap_it_ch.xml.gz Sitemap: https://www.meta.com/sitemap/www_meta_com_sitemap_ko_kr.xml.gz Sitemap: https://www.meta.com/sitemap/www_meta_com_sitemap_nl_be.xml.gz Sitemap: https://www.meta.com/sitemap/www_meta_com_sitemap_sv_se.xml.gz Sitemap: https://www.meta.com/sitemap/www_meta_com_sitemap_it_it.xml.gz Sitemap: https://www.meta.com/sitemap/www_meta_com_sitemap_en_gb.xml.gz Sitemap: https://www.meta.com/sitemap/www_meta_com_sitemap_nl_nl.xml.gz Sitemap: https://www.meta.com/sitemap/www_meta_com_sitemap_ja_jp.xml.gz
robots.txt versions
| From | Through | State | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-26 | 2026-10-27 | ok 200 | 5be2af84fc90 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-21 CC-MAIN-2026-39 | www.meta.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2025-09-15 CC-MAIN-2025-38 | www.meta.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2024-09-16 CC-MAIN-2024-38 | www.meta.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2023-10-02 CC-MAIN-2023-40 | www.meta.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2022-10-03 CC-MAIN-2022-40 | www.meta.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2020-09-28 CC-MAIN-2020-40 | meta.com | redirect-only | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown |
| 2018-09-24 CC-MAIN-2018-39 | meta.com | redirect-only | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown |
| 2017-09-25 CC-MAIN-2017-39 | meta.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-01-23 CC-MAIN-2017-04 | meta.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2016-10-03 CC-MAIN-2016-40 | meta.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2016-09-05 CC-MAIN-2016-36 | meta.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
Evidence
Every daily observation of meta.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/meta.com