nytimes.com: what it tells AI crawlers
On 26 October 2026, nytimes.com's robots.txt fully blocked GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Google-Extended, PerplexityBot and CCBot.
Last verified 2026-10-26 21:13 UTC (daily run of 2026-10-26). Proof for that day.
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- ok (HTTP 200) · https://www.nytimes.com/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-26 · sha25604dee26f145ee778…· view as recorded - The * group
- allows applies to every agent without its own group
Per AI bot, 2026-10-26
| User agent | Verdict | How |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| OAI-SearchBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| ChatGPT-User | blocks | named in its own 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 | blocks | named in its own group |
| Googlebot | allows | named in its own 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 | named in its own group |
| anthropic-ai | blocks | named in its own group |
| Brightbot | 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 |
| Diffbot-User | blocks | named in its own group |
| DuckAssistBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| EchoboxBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| ExaBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| ExaSearchBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| FacebookBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| facebookexternalhit | allows | named in its own group |
| FirecrawlAgent | blocks | named in its own group |
| FriendlyCrawler | blocks | named in its own group |
| Google-CloudVertexBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| ImagesiftBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| meta-externalfetcher | blocks | named in its own group |
| meta-webindexer | blocks | named in its own group |
| MyCentralAIScraperBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| omgili | blocks | named in its own group |
| omgilibot | blocks | named in its own group |
| QuillBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Scrapy | blocks | named in its own group |
| ShapBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Timpibot | blocks | named in its own group |
| YouBot | 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) | not observed |
| Declares Content Signals (robots.txt or header) | not observed |
| Says ai-train=no in a Content Signal | not observed |
| Points to an RSL licence (robots.txt License line or Link header) | not observed |
| Answers with an x402 payment offer (lower bound: only the homepage is probed) | not observed |
| Answers HTTP 402 Payment Required (lower bound: only the homepage is probed) | not observed |
| Sends noai / noimageai directives | not observed |
| Refused our fetcher (403 / challenge) | no |
robots.txt as recorded sha256 04dee26f145ee778…
# New York Times content is made available for your personal, non-commercial # use subject to our Terms of Service here: # https://help.nytimes.com/hc/en-us/articles/115014893428-Terms-of-Service. # Use of any device, tool, or process designed to data mine or scrape the content # using automated means is prohibited without prior written permission from # The New York Times Company. Prohibited uses include but are not limited to: # (1) text and data mining activities under Art. 4 of the EU Directive on Copyright in # the Digital Single Market; # (2) the development of any software, machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI), # and/or large language models (LLMs); # (3) creating or providing archived or cached data sets containing our content to others; and/or # (4) any commercial purposes. # Contact https://nytlicensing.com/contact/ for assistance. 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Googlebot Specific Rules User-agent: Googlebot Disallow: /athletic*adgroupid* Disallow: /athletic*campaignid* Disallow: /athletic*ad_id* Disallow: /athletic*access_token* Disallow: /athletic*amp_reader_id* Disallow: /athletic*/?source=* Disallow: /athletic/*?*embed=1 # Disallow Rules User-agent: AliyunSecBot Disallow: / User-agent: Amazonbot Disallow: /wirecutter/ User-agent: anthropic-ai Disallow: / User-agent: Applebot-Extended Disallow: / User-agent: archive.org_bot Disallow: / User-agent: AudigentAdBot Disallow: / User-agent: AwarioRssBot User-agent: AwarioSmartBot Disallow: / User-agent: BLEXBot Disallow: / User-agent: Brightbot Disallow: / User-agent: Bytespider Disallow: / User-agent: CCBot Disallow: / User-agent: ChatGPT-User Disallow: / User-agent: ClaudeBot Disallow: / User-agent: Claude-SearchBot Disallow: / User-agent: Claude-User Disallow: / User-agent: Claude-Web Disallow: / User-agent: cohere-ai Disallow: / User-agent: DataForSeoBot Disallow: / User-agent: Diffbot Disallow: / User-agent: Diffbot-User Disallow: / User-agent: DuckAssistBot Disallow: / User-agent: EchoboxBot Disallow: / User-agent: ExaBot Disallow: / User-agent: ExaSearchBot Disallow: / User-agent: FacebookBot Disallow: / User-agent: FirecrawlAgent Disallow: / User-agent: FriendlyCrawler Disallow: / User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot Disallow: / Allow: /wirecutter/ Allow: /athletic/ User-agent: Google-Extended Disallow: / User-agent: GPTBot Disallow: / User-agent: ImagesiftBot Disallow: / User-agent: Jetslide Disallow: / User-agent: magpie-crawler Disallow: / User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent User-agent: meta-externalagent Disallow: / User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher User-agent: meta-externalfetcher Disallow: / User-agent: Meta-WebIndexer User-agent: meta-webindexer/1.1 Disallow: / User-agent: MyCentralAIScraperBot Disallow: / User-agent: NewsNow Disallow: / User-agent: news-please Disallow: / User-agent: OAI-SearchBot Disallow: / User-agent: omgili Disallow: / User-agent: omgilibot Disallow: / User-agent: peer39_crawler User-agent: peer39_crawler/1.0 Disallow: / User-agent: PerplexityBot Disallow: / User-agent: Perplexity-User Disallow: / User-agent: Poseidon Research Crawler Disallow: / User-agent: quillbot.com Disallow: / User-agent: Quora-Bot Disallow: / User-agent: Scrapy Disallow: / User-agent: SeekrBot Disallow: / User-agent: SeznamHomepageCrawler Disallow: / User-agent: ShapBot Disallow: / User-agent: TaraGroup Intelligent Bot Disallow: / User-agent: Timpibot Disallow: / User-agent: TurnitinBot Disallow: / User-agent: ViennaTinyBot Disallow: / User-agent: YouBot Disallow: / # Ad Bot Rules User-agent: AmazonAdBot Allow: / # Social Bot Rules User-agent: facebookexternalhit Allow: /*?*smid= User-agent: Twitterbot Allow: /*?*smid= User-agent: RedditBot Allow: /*?*smid= # Sitemaps Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/sitemaps/new/news.xml.gz Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/sitemaps/new/sitemap.xml.gz Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/sitemaps/new/collections.xml.gz Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/sitemaps/new/video.xml.gz Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/sitemaps/new/cooking.xml.gz Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/sitemaps/new/recipe-collects.xml.gz Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/sitemaps/new/regions.xml Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/sitemaps/new/best-sellers.xml Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/sitemaps/new/subscription-landing-pages.xml Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/sitemaps/new/weather.xml.gz Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/sitemaps/new/espanol.xml.gz Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/sitemaps/new/espanol-collects.xml.gz Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/sitemapindex.xml Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/sitemap-videos-index.xml Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/sitemap-authors.xml Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/sitemap-verticals.xml Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/sitemap-teams.xml Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/sitemap-cities.xml Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/sitemap-players.xml Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/sitemap-tags.xml Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/sitemap-stats.xml Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/sitemap-schedule.xml Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/sitemap-roster.xml Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/sitemap.xml Sitemap: https://www.nytimes.com/games-assets/v2/assets/sitemap/games.xml
robots.txt versions
| From | Through | State | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-26 | 2026-10-27 | ok 200 | 04dee26f145e |
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.nytimes.com | ok view | blocks | blocks | unknown | blocks | blocks | unknown | blocks |
| 2024-09-16 CC-MAIN-2024-38 | www.nytimes.com | ok view | blocks | blocks | unknown | blocks | allows | unknown | blocks |
| 2022-10-03 CC-MAIN-2022-40 | www.nytimes.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2021-09-27 CC-MAIN-2021-39 | www.nytimes.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2020-09-28 CC-MAIN-2020-40 | www.nytimes.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2019-09-23 CC-MAIN-2019-39 | www.nytimes.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2018-09-24 CC-MAIN-2018-39 | www2.nytimes.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-09-25 CC-MAIN-2017-39 | www2.nytimes.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2016-09-05 CC-MAIN-2016-36 | nytimes.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
Evidence
Every daily observation of nytimes.com is a leaf in that day's Merkle tree. Proof of the robots.txt line for 2026-10-26: audit path (JSON), day root and OpenTimestamps proof (complete (bitcoin block 973294)).
API: https://infrarabbit.com/crawlers/api/v1/policy/nytimes.com