nintendo.com: what it tells AI crawlers
On 28 October 2026, nintendo.com's robots.txt fully blocked GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended and CCBot.
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.nintendo.com/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-26 · sha2569f7c4501d6487be1…· 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 | blocks | named in its own group |
| OAI-SearchBot | allows | through the * group |
| ChatGPT-User | allows | through the * group |
| ClaudeBot | blocks | named in its own 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 | blocks | named in its own group |
| Applebot-Extended | blocks | named in its own group |
| CCBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Bytespider | blocks | named in its own group |
| Meta-ExternalAgent | blocks | named in its own group |
| Amazonbot | allows | through the * group |
| Claude-Web | blocks | named in its own group |
| cohere-ai | blocks | named in its own group |
| cohere-training-data-crawler | blocks | named in its own group |
| Diffbot | blocks | named in its own group |
| FacebookBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| FriendlyCrawler | blocks | named in its own group |
| ICC-Crawler | blocks | named in its own group |
| omgili | blocks | named in its own group |
| omgilibot | blocks | named in its own group |
| PanguBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| PetalBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Timpibot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Webzio-Extended | 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 769df27cc20bf881…
User-agent: * Allow: / DaumWebMasterTool: 32aa5c28d33b91d5b7ca65e51ab5af74e84941e2c30d294caa1a3dc55aea1191:/KZk3GCODdcSqsR4mp1dtQ== # Blocked Bots User-agent: Kangaroo Bot Disallow: / User-agent: Nutch Disallow: / User-agent: Omgili Disallow: / User-agent: Omgilibot Disallow: / User-agent: PanguBot Disallow: / User-agent: PetalBot Disallow: / User-agent: Timpibot Disallow: / User-agent: Webzio-Extended Disallow: / User-agent: AI2Bot Disallow: / User-agent: AI2Bot-Dolma Disallow: / User-agent: Bytespider Disallow: / User-agent: CCBot Disallow: / User-agent: Diffbot Disallow: / User-agent: FacebookBot Disallow: / User-agent: FriendlyCrawler Disallow: / User-agent: ICC-Crawler Disallow: / User-agent: GPTBot Disallow: / User-agent: Applebot-Extended Disallow: / User-agent: Claude-Web Disallow: / User-agent: Claudebot Disallow: / User-agent: cohere-ai Disallow: / User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler Disallow: / User-agent: Google-Extended Disallow: / User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent Disallow: / # Sitemaps Sitemap: https://www.nintendo.com/au/sitemap/0.xml Sitemap: https://www.nintendo.com/jp/sitemap/index.html Sitemap: https://www.nintendo.com/jp/topics/sitemap.xml Sitemap: https://www.nintendo.com/kr/sitemap.xml Sitemap: https://www.nintendo.com/hk/sitemap.xml Sitemap: https://www.nintendo.com/tw/sitemap.xml Sitemap: https://www.nintendo.com/sg/data/sitemap/sitemap.xml Sitemap: https://www.nintendo.com/th/data/sitemap/sitemap.xml Sitemap: https://www.nintendo.com/my/data/sitemap/sitemap.xml Sitemap: https://www.nintendo.com/ph/data/sitemap/sitemap.xml Sitemap: https://www.nintendo.com/us/whatsnew/sitemap.xml Sitemap: https://www.nintendo.com/us/nintendo-direct/sitemap.xml Sitemap: https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/sitemap.xml Sitemap: https://www.nintendo.com/us/news/sitemap.xml Sitemap: https://www.nintendo.com/us/sitemap.xml Sitemap: https://www.nintendo.com/en-ca/whatsnew/sitemap.xml Sitemap: https://www.nintendo.com/en-ca/nintendo-direct/sitemap.xml Sitemap: https://www.nintendo.com/en-ca/store/sitemap.xml Sitemap: https://www.nintendo.com/en-ca/news/sitemap.xml Sitemap: https://www.nintendo.com/en-ca/sitemap.xml Sitemap: https://www.nintendo.com/fr-ca/whatsnew/sitemap.xml Sitemap: https://www.nintendo.com/fr-ca/store/sitemap.xml Sitemap: https://www.nintendo.com/fr-ca/news/sitemap.xml Sitemap: https://www.nintendo.com/fr-ca/sitemap.xml Sitemap: https://www.nintendo.com/pt-br/whatsnew/sitemap.xml Sitemap: https://www.nintendo.com/pt-br/store/sitemap.xml Sitemap: https://www.nintendo.com/pt-br/news/sitemap.xml Sitemap: https://www.nintendo.com/pt-br/sitemap.xml Sitemap: https://www.nintendo.com/es-mx/whatsnew/sitemap.xml Sitemap: https://www.nintendo.com/es-mx/store/sitemap.xml Sitemap: https://www.nintendo.com/es-mx/news/sitemap.xml Sitemap: https://www.nintendo.com/es-mx/sitemap.xml Sitemap: https://www.nintendo.com/es-pe/whatsnew/sitemap.xml Sitemap: https://www.nintendo.com/es-pe/store/sitemap.xml Sitemap: https://www.nintendo.com/es-pe/news/sitemap.xml Sitemap: https://www.nintendo.com/es-pe/sitemap.xml Sitemap: https://www.nintendo.com/es-cl/whatsnew/sitemap.xml Sitemap: https://www.nintendo.com/es-cl/store/sitemap.xml Sitemap: https://www.nintendo.com/es-cl/news/sitemap.xml Sitemap: https://www.nintendo.com/es-cl/sitemap.xml Sitemap: https://www.nintendo.com/es-co/whatsnew/sitemap.xml Sitemap: https://www.nintendo.com/es-co/store/sitemap.xml Sitemap: https://www.nintendo.com/es-co/news/sitemap.xml Sitemap: https://www.nintendo.com/es-co/sitemap.xml Sitemap: https://www.nintendo.com/es-ar/whatsnew/sitemap.xml Sitemap: https://www.nintendo.com/es-ar/store/sitemap.xml Sitemap: https://www.nintendo.com/es-ar/news/sitemap.xml Sitemap: https://www.nintendo.com/es-ar/sitemap.xml
robots.txt versions
| From | Through | State | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-26 | 2026-10-28 | ok 200 | 9f7c4501d648 |
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.nintendo.com | ok view | blocks | allows | unknown | blocks | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2025-09-15 CC-MAIN-2025-38 | www.nintendo.com | ok view | blocks | allows | unknown | blocks | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2024-09-16 CC-MAIN-2024-38 | nintendo.com | redirect-only | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown |
| 2023-10-02 CC-MAIN-2023-40 | www.nintendo.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2022-10-03 CC-MAIN-2022-40 | www.nintendo.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2021-09-27 CC-MAIN-2021-39 | www.nintendo.com | absent | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2020-09-28 CC-MAIN-2020-40 | www.nintendo.com | absent | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2019-09-23 CC-MAIN-2019-39 | www.nintendo.com | absent | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2018-09-24 CC-MAIN-2018-39 | www.nintendo.com | absent | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2018-04-23 CC-MAIN-2018-17 | www.nintendo.com | absent | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2018-01-29 CC-MAIN-2018-05 | www.nintendo.com | absent | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-10-23 CC-MAIN-2017-43 | www.nintendo.com | absent | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-09-25 CC-MAIN-2017-39 | www.nintendo.com | absent | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-07-24 CC-MAIN-2017-30 | www.nintendo.com | absent | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-04-24 CC-MAIN-2017-17 | nintendo.com | absent | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-01-23 CC-MAIN-2017-04 | www.nintendo.com | absent | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2016-10-03 CC-MAIN-2016-40 | nintendo.com | absent | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2016-09-05 CC-MAIN-2016-36 | nintendo.com | absent | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
Evidence
Every daily observation of nintendo.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/nintendo.com