nike.com: what it tells AI crawlers

On 28 October 2026, nike.com's robots.txt allowed all of GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Google-Extended, PerplexityBot and CCBot.

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

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robots.txt

ok (HTTP 200) · https://www.nike.com/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-26 · sha256 54ba534bff9e8b4c… · view as recorded

The * group

partial applies to every agent without its own group

Per AI bot, 2026-10-28

Other signals

robots.txt as recorded sha256 8a8ad22f88bf13ce…

# https://www.nike.com robots.txt -- just crawl it.

User-agent: *
Disallow: /us/en_cs/
Disallow: /il/en_il/
Disallow: /us/en_eu/
Disallow: */member/inbox/
Disallow: */n/
Disallow: */p/
Disallow: */checkout/
Disallow: */w?q=
Disallow: /*.swf$
Disallow: /*.pdf$
Disallow: /ar/help/
Disallow: /br/help/
Disallow: /hk/help/
Disallow: /kr/help/
Disallow: /ph/help/
Disallow: /uy/help/
Disallow: /xf/help/
Disallow: /xl/help/
Disallow: /xm/help/


User-agent: Baiduspider
Disallow: /ae/
Disallow: /ar/
Disallow: /at/
Disallow: /au/
Disallow: /be/
Disallow: /bg/
Disallow: /br/
Disallow: /BR/
Disallow: /ca/
Disallow: /ch/
Disallow: /cl/
Disallow: /cz/
Disallow: /de/
Disallow: /dk/
Disallow: /eg/
Disallow: /es/
Disallow: /fi/
Disallow: /fr/
Disallow: /gb/
Disallow: /gr/
Disallow: /hk/
Disallow: /hr/
Disallow: /hu/
Disallow: /id/
Disallow: /ie/
Disallow: /il/
Disallow: /in/
Disallow: /it/
Disallow: /jp/
Disallow: /kr/
Disallow: /lu/
Disallow: /ma/
Disallow: /mx/
Disallow: /my/
Disallow: /nl/
Disallow: /no/
Disallow: /nz/
Disallow: /ph/
Disallow: /pl/
Disallow: /pr/
Disallow: /pt/
Disallow: /ro/
Disallow: /ru/
Disallow: /sa/
Disallow: /se/
Disallow: /sg/
Disallow: /si/
Disallow: /sk/
Disallow: /th/
Disallow: /tr/
Disallow: /tw/
Disallow: /us/
Disallow: /uy/
Disallow: /vn/
Disallow: /xf/
Disallow: /xl/
Disallow: /xm/
Disallow: /za/
 
User-agent: HaoSouSpider
Disallow: /ae/
Disallow: /ar/
Disallow: /at/
Disallow: /au/
Disallow: /be/
Disallow: /bg/
Disallow: /br/
Disallow: /BR/
Disallow: /ca/
Disallow: /ch/
Disallow: /cl/
Disallow: /cz/
Disallow: /de/
Disallow: /dk/
Disallow: /eg/
Disallow: /es/
Disallow: /fi/
Disallow: /fr/
Disallow: /gb/
Disallow: /gr/
Disallow: /hk/
Disallow: /hr/
Disallow: /hu/
Disallow: /id/
Disallow: /ie/
Disallow: /il/
Disallow: /in/
Disallow: /it/
Disallow: /jp/
Disallow: /kr/
Disallow: /lu/
Disallow: /ma/
Disallow: /mx/
Disallow: /my/
Disallow: /nl/
Disallow: /no/
Disallow: /nz/
Disallow: /ph/
Disallow: /pl/
Disallow: /pr/
Disallow: /pt/
Disallow: /ro/
Disallow: /ru/
Disallow: /sa/
Disallow: /se/
Disallow: /sg/
Disallow: /si/
Disallow: /sk/
Disallow: /th/
Disallow: /tr/
Disallow: /tw/
Disallow: /us/
Disallow: /uy/
Disallow: /vn/
Disallow: /xf/
Disallow: /xl/
Disallow: /xm/
Disallow: /za/

User-agent: Sogou web spider
Disallow: /*
Allow: /cn/*

User-agent: Sogou inst spider
Disallow: /*
Allow: /cn/*

User-agent: Sogou spider2
Disallow: /*
Allow: /cn/*

Sitemap: https://www.nike.com/sitemap-c-index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.nike.com/sitemap-pw-index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.nike.com/sitemap-pdp-index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.nike.com/sitemap-launch-index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.nike.com/sitemap-bootroom-index.xml

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robots.txt versions

Timeline of changes

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.

Evidence

Every daily observation of nike.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/nike.com