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.

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robots.txt
ok (HTTP 200) · https://nypost.com/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-26 · sha256 868d2f594a02a1f7… · view as recorded
The * group
allows applies to every agent without its own group

Per AI bot, 2026-10-28

User agentVerdictHow
GPTBotallowsthrough the * group
OAI-SearchBotallowsthrough the * group
ChatGPT-Userallowsthrough the * group
ClaudeBotblocksnamed in its own group
Claude-SearchBotblocksnamed in its own group
Claude-Userblocksnamed in its own group
PerplexityBotblocksnamed in its own group
Perplexity-Userallowsthrough the * group
Googlebotallowsthrough the * group
Google-Extendedblocksnamed in its own group
Applebot-Extendedblocksnamed in its own group
CCBotblocksnamed in its own group
Bytespiderblocksnamed in its own group
Meta-ExternalAgentblocksnamed in its own group
Amazonbotblocksnamed in its own group
amazon-kendrablocksnamed in its own group
amazon-QBusinessblocksnamed in its own group
Amzn-SearchBotblocksnamed in its own group
Amzn-Userblocksnamed in its own group
anthropic-aiblocksnamed in its own group
Claude-Webblocksnamed in its own group
cohere-aiblocksnamed in its own group
Diffbotblocksnamed in its own group
FacebookBotblocksnamed in its own group
FriendlyCrawlerblocksnamed in its own group
ImagesiftBotblocksnamed in its own group
meta-externalfetcherblocksnamed in its own group
omgiliblocksnamed in its own group
omgilibotblocksnamed in its own group
PetalBotblocksnamed in its own group
Scrapyblocksnamed in its own group
Shap-Userblocksnamed in its own group
ShapBotblocksnamed in its own group

Other signals

Publishes /llms.txtno
Publishes /ai.txtno
Publishes /.well-known/tdmrep.jsonno
Reserves TDM rights (TDMRep file, header or meta)no
Declares Content Signals (robots.txt or header)no
Says ai-train=no in a Content Signalno
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 directivesno
Refused our fetcher (403 / challenge)no

robots.txt as recorded sha256 6353ac12382e08fe…

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Sitemap: http://nypost.com/news-sitemap.xml

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Disallow: /5850/
User-agent: *
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /*?s=
Disallow: /*&s=
Disallow: /*?s&
Disallow: /*&s&
Disallow: /*?q=
Disallow: /*&q=
Disallow: /*?q&
Disallow: /*&q&
Disallow: /*?x=
# Sitemap archive
Sitemap: http://nypost.com/sitemap.xml

Disallow: /wp-login.php
Disallow: /activate/ # har har
Disallow: /cgi-bin/ # MT refugees
Disallow: /mshots/v1/
Disallow: /next/
Disallow: /public.api/

User-agent: IRLbot
Crawl-delay: 3600

# This file was generated on Wed, 08 Mar 2017 05:00:27 +0000

robots.txt versions

FromThroughStateVersion
2026-10-262026-10-28ok 200868d2f594a02

Timeline of changes

DateWhat 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.

CrawlHostStateGPTBotOAI-SearchBotChatGPT-UserClaudeBotClaude-SearchBotClaude-UserPerplexityBot
2025-09-15 CC-MAIN-2025-38nypost.comok viewallowsallowsunknownblocksallowsunknownblocks
2024-09-16 CC-MAIN-2024-38nypost.comok viewallowsallowsunknownblocksallowsunknownblocks
2023-10-02 CC-MAIN-2023-40nypost.comok viewblocksallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2022-10-03 CC-MAIN-2022-40nypost.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2021-09-27 CC-MAIN-2021-39nypost.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2020-09-28 CC-MAIN-2020-40nypost.comok viewpartialpartialunknownpartialpartialunknownpartial
2019-09-23 CC-MAIN-2019-39nypost.comok viewpartialpartialunknownpartialpartialunknownpartial
2018-09-24 CC-MAIN-2018-39nypost.comok viewpartialpartialunknownpartialpartialunknownpartial
2018-07-23 CC-MAIN-2018-30nypost.comok viewpartialpartialunknownpartialpartialunknownpartial
2018-04-23 CC-MAIN-2018-17nypost.comok viewpartialpartialunknownpartialpartialunknownpartial
2018-01-29 CC-MAIN-2018-05nypost.comok viewpartialpartialunknownpartialpartialunknownpartial
2017-10-23 CC-MAIN-2017-43nypost.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2017-09-25 CC-MAIN-2017-39nypost.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2017-07-24 CC-MAIN-2017-30nypost.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2017-04-24 CC-MAIN-2017-17nypost.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2017-01-23 CC-MAIN-2017-04nypost.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2016-10-03 CC-MAIN-2016-40nypost.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2016-09-05 CC-MAIN-2016-36nypost.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows

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