mparticle.com: what it tells AI crawlers

On 28 October 2026, mparticle.com's robots.txt was an HTML page or not a robots.txt (a soft 404 or a bot challenge), so its policy could not be read.

Last verified 2026-10-29 03:59 UTC (daily run of 2026-10-28). Proof for that day.

Panel
top 10k (Tranco)
robots.txt
soft404 (HTTP 200) · https://www.rokt.com/rokt-mparticle/platform
unchanged since 2026-10-28

Per AI bot, 2026-10-28

User agentVerdictHow
GPTBotunknownsoft404
OAI-SearchBotunknownsoft404
ChatGPT-Userunknownsoft404
ClaudeBotunknownsoft404
Claude-SearchBotunknownsoft404
Claude-Userunknownsoft404
PerplexityBotunknownsoft404
Perplexity-Userunknownsoft404
Googlebotunknownsoft404
Google-Extendedunknownsoft404
Applebot-Extendedunknownsoft404
CCBotunknownsoft404
Bytespiderunknownsoft404
Meta-ExternalAgentunknownsoft404
Amazonbotunknownsoft404

Other signals

Publishes /llms.txtno
Publishes /ai.txtno
Publishes /.well-known/tdmrep.jsonno
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)no

robots.txt as recorded sha256 8d41e00f92d94b09…

User-Agent: *
Disallow: /careers-back
Disallow: /customers/venmo
Disallow: /customers/lily-pulitzer
Disallow: /x-get-started
Disallow: /x-thank-you
Disallow: /x-landing-test
Disallow: /tag/*
Disallow: /tag/

robots.txt versions

FromThroughStateVersion
2026-10-282026-10-28soft404 200–
2026-10-262026-10-27ok 2006f219082cf90

Timeline of changes

DateWhat changed
2026-10-28robots.txt fetch: ok → soft404

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

Evidence

Every daily observation of mparticle.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/mparticle.com