nintendo.com: what it tells AI crawlers
On 27 October 2026, nintendo.com's robots.txt fully blocked GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended and CCBot.
Last verified 2026-10-28 03:59 UTC (daily run of 2026-10-27). 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, 2026-10-27
| 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 9f7c4501d6487be1…
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
Allow: /jp/nintendo-direct/description/
Disallow: /
User-agent: Claude-Web
Allow: /jp/nintendo-direct/description/
Disallow: /
User-agent: Claudebot
Allow: /jp/nintendo-direct/description/
Disallow: /
User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /jp/nintendo-direct/description/
Disallow: /
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /jp/nintendo-direct/description/
Disallow: /
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Allow: /jp/nintendo-direct/description/
Disallow: /
User-agent: cohere-ai
Allow: /jp/nintendo-direct/description/
Disallow: /
User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler
Allow: /jp/nintendo-direct/description/
Disallow: /
# Existing restrictions
User-agent: *
Disallow: /sg/support/qa-list
Disallow: /my/support/qa-list
Disallow: /th/support/qa-list
Disallow: /ph/support/qa-list
# Sitemaps
Sitemap: https://www.nintendo.com/au/sitemap/0.xml
Sitemap: https://www.nintendo.com/jp/data/sitemap/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.nintendo.com/jp/topics/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.nintendo.com/jp/nintendo-direct/description/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
#Nintendo Co., Ltd. and its affiliated companies ("Nintendo") therefore explicitly reserve all their rights in any content made available, including, without limitation, content made available by Nintendo on websites, social media pages and any other platforms, as well as in Nintendo games, video content, and social media posts.
#Any use of such content for the development, training, programming, improvement and/or enhancement of artificial intelligence (including, but not limited to, generative AI systems), web scraping, machine learning, or any form of text or data mining by any means, is strictly prohibited, unless specifically and explicitly authorized in writing by the Nintendo company that owns the respective rights.
#This statement is a reservation of rights (also known as an "opt-out") with respect to text and data mining, to the extent that this concept is recognised by applicable law in all jurisdictions worldwide, such as Article 4 (3) of Directive (EU) 2019/790 and national implementation laws in the EU region.
#It applies to any Nintendo content including, without limitation, video games, visual displays of video games, characters, brands, artworks, images, videos, music, dialogue, story, and any Nintendo works or data.
robots.txt versions
| From | Through | State | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-26 | 2026-10-27 | 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 |
| 2018-01-29 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 2026-10-27: audit path (JSON), day root and OpenTimestamps proof (complete (bitcoin block 973493)).
API: https://infrarabbit.com/crawlers/api/v1/policy/nintendo.com