moloco.com: what it tells AI crawlers

On 28 October 2026, moloco.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 2026-10-29 03:59 UTC (daily run of 2026-10-28). Proof for that day.

Panel: top 1k (Tranco)
robots.txt: ok (HTTP 200) · https://www.moloco.com/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-26 · sha256 a82ae070e5930571… · view as recorded
The * group: allows applies to every agent without its own group

Per AI bot, 2026-10-28

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	named in its own group
Bytespider	blocks	named in its own group
Meta-ExternalAgent	allows	through the * group
Amazonbot	allows	through the * group

Other signals

Publishes /llms.txt	yes
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

llms.txt: "Moloco", 8,655 bytes, 48 links.

robots.txt as recorded sha256 48969626e83828d4…

User-agent: *

# Duplication and Query Strings
Disallow: *page=*
Disallow: /search?query=*
Disallow: /*?edit*
Disallow: /*utm_*
Disallow: /*category=*
Disallow: /*interested_in_solution*
Disallow: /*?lang=*
Disallow: /*?r=0
Disallow: /*sort_by=*
Disallow: /*filter_by=*
Disallow: /*ticket_form_id=*
Disallow: *?page_id=
Disallow: *_page=

# Attachments
Disallow: /hc/article_attachments/

# Marketing Pages
Disallow: */landing-pages/*download*
Disallow: */landing-pages/*thank-you*
Disallow: */landing-pages/*thanks*
Disallow: */landing-page/form-3
Disallow: */landing-page/form-2
Disallow: */landing-page/form-1

#Other pages
Disallow: */untitled
Disallow: */dpa-mcm/*
Disallow: */dpa-dsp/*
Disallow: */dpa-sdk/*
Disallow: */dpa-agency/*
Disallow: */sronlineterms/*
Disallow: */generalterms-ma/*
Disallow: */content-guideline-ads/*
Disallow: */content-guideline-ads-rmg/*

# JavaScript directories
Disallow: /static/js/
Disallow: /ui/vendor/jquery.sparkline/
Disallow: /_next/static/chunks/

# Known Scraper Bots
User-agent: Teleport
Disallow: /

User-agent: WebZIP
Disallow: /

User-agent: CherryPicker
Disallow: /

User-agent: ERNIE-Bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: BlowFish/1.0
Disallow: /

User-agent: grub
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: SiteSnagger
Disallow: /

User-agent: Titan
Disallow: /

User-agent: Barkrowler
Disallow: /

# Malicious Bots
User-agent: 008
Disallow: /

User-agent: Alexibot
Disallow: /

User-agent: BackDoorBot/1.0
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bullseye/1.0
Disallow: /

User-agent: ExtractorPro
Disallow: /

User-agent: Kenjin Spider
Disallow: /

User-agent: WWW-Collector-E
Disallow: /

# High-Risk Regional Bots
User-agent: Sogou
Disallow: /

User-agent: Yandex
Disallow: /

User-agent: Mail.RU_Bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: MegaIndex
Disallow: /

User-agent: Szukacz/1.4
Disallow: /

# Data Scraping Bots
User-agent: BotALot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bullseye/1.0
Disallow: /

User-agent: BunnySlippers
Disallow: /

User-agent: BuiltBotTough
Disallow: /

User-agent: CheeseBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Crescent
Disallow: /

User-agent: EroCrawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: Foobot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Harvest/1.5
Disallow: /

User-agent: InfoNaviRobot
Disallow: /

User-agent: JennyBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Mister PiX
Disallow: /

User-agent: moget
Disallow: /

User-agent: NetAnts
Disallow: /

User-agent: NICErsPRO
Disallow: /

User-agent: ProPowerBot/2.14
Disallow: /

User-agent: Radiation Retriever
Disallow: /

User-agent: RepoMonkey
Disallow: /

User-agent: RepoMonkey Bait & Tackle/v1.01
Disallow: /

User-agent: True_Robot
Disallow: /

User-agent: URL_Spider_Pro
Disallow: /

User-agent: Web Image Collector
Disallow: /

User-agent: WebAuto
Disallow: /

User-agent: WebBandit
Disallow: /

User-agent: WebCopier
Disallow: /

User-agent: Website Quester
Disallow: /

User-agent: Webster Pro
Disallow: /

User-agent: WebStripper
Disallow: /

User-agent: Wget
Disallow: /

User-agent: Zeus
Disallow: /

# SEO Monitoring Bots - Set Crawl Delays
User-agent: dotbot
crawl-delay: 5

User-agent: Rogerbot
Crawl-delay: 5

User-agent: ia_archiver
Crawl-delay: 5

User-agent: MJ12bot
Crawl-delay: 5

User-agent: Xenu
Crawl-delay: 5

User-agent: AhrefsBot
Crawl-delay: 1

User-agent: CCBot
Crawl-delay: 5

User-agent: SemrushBot
Crawl-delay: 5

User-agent: DataForSeoBot
Crawl-delay: 5

User-agent: XoviBot
Crawl-delay: 5

User-agent: Screaming Frog SEO Spider
Crawl-delay: 1

User-agent: Keyword Density/0.9
Crawl-delay: 5

User-agent: LinkextractorPro
Crawl-delay: 5

User-agent: LinkScan/8.1a Unix
Crawl-delay: 5

User-agent: BLEXbot
Crawl-delay: 5

User-agent: spbot
Crawl-delay: 5

# Sitemap 
Sitemap: https://www.moloco.com/sitemap.xml

Sitemap: https://www.moloco.com/sitemap.xml

robots.txt versions

From	Through	State	Version
2026-10-26	2026-10-28	ok 200	`a82ae070e593`

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.moloco.com	ok view	allows	allows	unknown	allows	allows	unknown	allows
2025-09-15 CC-MAIN-2025-38	www.moloco.com	ok view	allows	allows	unknown	allows	allows	unknown	allows
2024-09-16 CC-MAIN-2024-38	www.moloco.com	ok view	allows	allows	unknown	allows	allows	unknown	allows
2023-10-02 CC-MAIN-2023-40	www.moloco.com	ok view	allows	allows	unknown	allows	allows	unknown	allows
2022-10-03 CC-MAIN-2022-40	www.moloco.com	ok view	allows	allows	unknown	allows	allows	unknown	allows
2021-09-27 CC-MAIN-2021-39	www.moloco.com	ok view	allows	allows	unknown	allows	allows	unknown	allows

Evidence

Every daily observation of moloco.com is a leaf in that day's Merkle tree. Proof of the robots.txt line for 2026-10-28: audit path (JSON), day root and OpenTimestamps proof (complete (bitcoin block 973640)).

API: https://infrarabbit.com/crawlers/api/v1/policy/moloco.com