nypost.com: what it tells AI crawlers
On 28 October 2026, nypost.com's robots.txt fully blocked 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.
- Panel
- top 10k (Tranco)
- robots.txt
- ok (HTTP 200) · https://nypost.com/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-26 · sha256868d2f594a02a1f7…· 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 | allows | through the * group |
| OAI-SearchBot | allows | through the * group |
| ChatGPT-User | allows | through the * group |
| ClaudeBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Claude-SearchBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Claude-User | blocks | named in its own group |
| PerplexityBot | blocks | named in its own 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 | blocks | named in its own group |
| amazon-kendra | blocks | named in its own group |
| amazon-QBusiness | blocks | named in its own group |
| Amzn-SearchBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Amzn-User | blocks | named in its own group |
| anthropic-ai | blocks | named in its own group |
| Claude-Web | blocks | named in its own group |
| cohere-ai | 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 |
| ImagesiftBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| meta-externalfetcher | blocks | named in its own group |
| omgili | blocks | named in its own group |
| omgilibot | blocks | named in its own group |
| PetalBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Scrapy | blocks | named in its own group |
| Shap-User | blocks | named in its own group |
| ShapBot | 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 3aa8ac925dae000b…
Sitemap: https://nypost.com/news-sitemap.xml User-agent: * Disallow: /wp-admin/ Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php Disallow: /account/ Allow: /account/subscribe Disallow: /5850/ User-agent: * Disallow: /search/ Disallow: /horoscope/ Disallow: /*?x= Disallow: /*?action= Disallow: /*&action= Disallow: /*?adid= Disallow: /*&adid= Disallow: /*?bitrate= Disallow: /*&bitrate= Disallow: /*?channel= Disallow: /*&channel= Disallow: /*?clipid= Disallow: /*&clipid= Disallow: /*?contentCollection= Disallow: /*&contentCollection= Disallow: /*?contentId= Disallow: /*&contentId= Disallow: /*?ei= Disallow: /*&ei= Disallow: /*?format= Disallow: /*&format= Disallow: /*?height= Disallow: /*&height= Disallow: /*?iframe= Disallow: /*&iframe= Disallow: /*?mediaId= Disallow: /*&mediaId= Disallow: /*?module= Disallow: /*&module= Disallow: /*?monthnum= Disallow: /*&monthnum= Disallow: /*?pgtype= Disallow: /*&pgtype= Disallow: /*?preview= Disallow: /*&preview= Disallow: /*?priority= Disallow: /*&priority= Disallow: /*?ref= Disallow: /*&ref= Disallow: /*?referrer= Disallow: /*&referrer= Disallow: /*?sa= Disallow: /*&sa= Disallow: /*?section= Disallow: /*§ion= Disallow: /*?share= Disallow: /*&share= Disallow: /*?TB_iframe= Disallow: /*&TB_iframe= Disallow: /*?TBL_Prod100Page= Disallow: /*&TBL_Prod100Page= Disallow: /*?theme_preview= Disallow: /*&theme_preview= Disallow: /*?usg= Disallow: /*&usg= Disallow: /*?ved= Disallow: /*&ved= Disallow: /*?version= Disallow: /*&version= Disallow: /*?VID= Disallow: /*&VID= Disallow: /*?vxBitrate= Disallow: /*&vxBitrate= Disallow: /*?vxChannel= Disallow: /*&vxChannel= Disallow: /*?vxClipId= Disallow: /*&vxClipId= Disallow: /*?vxSiteId= Disallow: /*&vxSiteId= Disallow: /*?width= Disallow: /*&width= Disallow: /*?year= Disallow: /*&year= Disallow: /*.xml?uuid= Disallow: /*?post_type=feedback&p= Disallow: /*?wptouch_preview_theme= Disallow: /*> Disallow: /?attachment_id= Disallow: /affiliate/ # Sitemap archive Sitemap: https://nypost.com/sitemap-502.xml Sitemap: https://nypost.com/sitemap-1865.xml Sitemap: https://nypost.com/sitemap-1999.xml Sitemap: https://nypost.com/sitemap-2000.xml Sitemap: https://nypost.com/sitemap-2001.xml Sitemap: https://nypost.com/sitemap-2002.xml Sitemap: https://nypost.com/sitemap-2003.xml Sitemap: https://nypost.com/sitemap-2004.xml Sitemap: https://nypost.com/sitemap-2005.xml Sitemap: https://nypost.com/sitemap-2006.xml Sitemap: https://nypost.com/sitemap-2007.xml Sitemap: https://nypost.com/sitemap-2008.xml Sitemap: https://nypost.com/sitemap-2009.xml Sitemap: https://nypost.com/sitemap-2010.xml Sitemap: https://nypost.com/sitemap-2011.xml Sitemap: https://nypost.com/sitemap-2012.xml Sitemap: https://nypost.com/sitemap-2013.xml Sitemap: https://nypost.com/sitemap-2014.xml Sitemap: https://nypost.com/sitemap-2015.xml Sitemap: https://nypost.com/sitemap-2016.xml Sitemap: https://nypost.com/sitemap-2017.xml Sitemap: https://nypost.com/sitemap-2018.xml Sitemap: https://nypost.com/sitemap-2019.xml Sitemap: https://nypost.com/sitemap-2020.xml Sitemap: https://nypost.com/sitemap-2021.xml # Additional sitemaps Sitemap: https://nypost.com/sitemap-nypost-section.xml Sitemap: https://nypost.com/sitemap-nypost-post_tag.xml Sitemap: https://nypost.com/sitemap-nypost-authors.xml Sitemap: https://nypost.com/sitemap-nypost-pages.xml
robots.txt versions
| From | Through | State | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-26 | 2026-10-28 | ok 200 | 868d2f594a02 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-15 CC-MAIN-2025-38 | nypost.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | blocks | allows | unknown | blocks |
| 2024-09-16 CC-MAIN-2024-38 | nypost.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | blocks | allows | unknown | blocks |
| 2023-10-02 CC-MAIN-2023-40 | nypost.com | ok view | blocks | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2022-10-03 CC-MAIN-2022-40 | nypost.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2021-09-27 CC-MAIN-2021-39 | nypost.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2020-09-28 CC-MAIN-2020-40 | nypost.com | ok view | partial | partial | unknown | partial | partial | unknown | partial |
| 2019-09-23 CC-MAIN-2019-39 | nypost.com | ok view | partial | partial | unknown | partial | partial | unknown | partial |
| 2018-09-24 CC-MAIN-2018-39 | nypost.com | ok view | partial | partial | unknown | partial | partial | unknown | partial |
| 2018-07-23 CC-MAIN-2018-30 | nypost.com | ok view | partial | partial | unknown | partial | partial | unknown | partial |
| 2018-04-23 CC-MAIN-2018-17 | nypost.com | ok view | partial | partial | unknown | partial | partial | unknown | partial |
| 2018-01-29 CC-MAIN-2018-05 | nypost.com | ok view | partial | partial | unknown | partial | partial | unknown | partial |
| 2017-10-23 CC-MAIN-2017-43 | nypost.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-09-25 CC-MAIN-2017-39 | nypost.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-07-24 CC-MAIN-2017-30 | nypost.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-04-24 CC-MAIN-2017-17 | nypost.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-01-23 CC-MAIN-2017-04 | nypost.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2016-10-03 CC-MAIN-2016-40 | nypost.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2016-09-05 CC-MAIN-2016-36 | nypost.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
Evidence
Every daily observation of nypost.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/nypost.com