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 a125a1c6cb764e29…

# www.nike.com robots.txt -- just crawl it.

User-agent: *

Disallow: */member/inbox
Disallow: */member/settings
Disallow: */p/
Disallow: */checkout/
Disallow: /*.swf$
Disallow: /*.pdf$
Disallow: /pdf/
Disallow: /ar/help/
Disallow: /br/help/
Disallow: /hk/help/
Disallow: /kr/help/
Disallow: /uy/help/
Disallow: /xf/help/
Disallow: /xl/help/
Disallow: /xm/help/

Disallow: */*/*_*_*/retail
Disallow: */retail/s/directory
Disallow: */retail/s/search
Disallow: */retail/*_*/
Disallow: */retail/appointmentpage
Disallow: */retail/*nike-store
Disallow: */retail/services
Disallow: */*_*/retail/*/directory
Disallow: */retail/*search
Disallow: */retail/*frontend
Disallow: */retail/*/sitemap
Disallow: */hk/en_gb/retail
Disallow: */retail/*/api/

User-agent: Baiduspider
Allow: /cn$
Allow: /cn/
Allow: /CN$
Allow: /CN/
Allow: /assets/
Allow: /static/
Allow: /styleguide/
Disallow: */w?q=
Disallow: */w/?q=
Disallow: /
 
User-agent: HaoSouSpider
Allow: /cn$
Allow: /cn/
Allow: /CN$
Allow: /CN/
Allow: /assets/
Allow: /static/
Allow: /styleguide/
Disallow: */w?q=
Disallow: */w/?q=
Disallow: /

User-agent: Sogou web spider
Allow: /cn$
Allow: /cn/
Allow: /CN$
Allow: /CN/
Allow: /assets/
Allow: /static/
Allow: /styleguide/
Disallow: */w?q=
Disallow: */w/?q=
Disallow: /

User-agent: Sogou inst spider
Allow: /cn$
Allow: /cn/
Allow: /CN$
Allow: /CN/
Allow: /assets/
Allow: /static/
Allow: /styleguide/
Disallow: */w?q=
Disallow: */w/?q=
Disallow: /

User-agent: Sogou spider2
Allow: /cn$
Allow: /cn/
Allow: /CN$
Allow: /CN/
Allow: /assets/
Allow: /static/
Allow: /styleguide/
Disallow: */w?q=
Disallow: */w/?q=
Disallow: /

Sitemap: https://www.nike.com/sitemap-us-help.xml
Sitemap: https://www.nike.com/sitemap-landingpage-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-wall-index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.nike.com/sitemap-article-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