ouest-france.fr: what it tells AI crawlers
On 28 October 2026, ouest-france.fr's robots.txt fully blocked GPTBot, ClaudeBot and CCBot and partly blocked OAI-SearchBot, Claude-SearchBot, Google-Extended and PerplexityBot.
Last verified 2026-10-29 03:59 UTC (daily run of 2026-10-28). Proof for that day.
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- top 10k (Tranco)
- robots.txt
- ok (HTTP 200) · https://www.ouest-france.fr/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-28 · sha256f5f889cfe4bfbb94…· view as recorded - The * group
- blocks 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 | partial | named in its own group |
| ChatGPT-User | partial | named in its own group |
| ClaudeBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Claude-SearchBot | partial | named in its own group |
| Claude-User | partial | named in its own group |
| PerplexityBot | partial | named in its own group |
| Perplexity-User | partial | named in its own group |
| Googlebot | allows | named in its own group |
| Google-Extended | partial | named in its own group |
| Applebot-Extended | partial | named in its own group |
| CCBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Bytespider | partial | named in its own group |
| Meta-ExternalAgent | blocks | named in its own group |
| Amazonbot | partial | named in its own group |
| amazon-kendra | 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 |
| Applebot | allows | named in its own group |
| bedrockbot | blocks | named in its own group |
| ChatGLM-Spider | blocks | named in its own group |
| Claude-Web | blocks | named in its own group |
| CledaraBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| cohere-ai | blocks | named in its own group |
| DeepSeekBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Diffbot | blocks | named in its own group |
| DuckAssistBot | partial | named in its own group |
| ExaBot | allows | named in its own group |
| FacebookBot | allows | named in its own group |
| facebookexternalhit | allows | named in its own group |
| Google-NotebookLM | partial | named in its own group |
| GoogleAgent-URLContext | blocks | named in its own group |
| GoogleOther | allows | named in its own group |
| iAskBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| ICC-Crawler | blocks | named in its own group |
| ImagesiftBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| LinerBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| meta-externalfetcher | partial | named in its own group |
| meta-webindexer | partial | named in its own group |
| MistralAI-Index | partial | named in its own group |
| MistralAI-Training | blocks | named in its own group |
| MistralAI-User | partial | named in its own group |
| Muse | blocks | named in its own group |
| omgili | blocks | named in its own group |
| PanguBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| PetalBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| QualifiedBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| TikTokSpider | blocks | named in its own group |
| Timpibot | blocks | named in its own group |
| WARDBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| wpbot | blocks | named in its own group |
| WRTNBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| YouBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| ZanistaBot | blocks | named in its own group |
Other signals
| Publishes /llms.txt | not observed |
| Publishes /ai.txt | not observed |
| Publishes /.well-known/tdmrep.json | not observed |
| 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 f5f889cfe4bfbb94…
# Allowed search engines directives User-agent: Mediapartners-Google User-agent: Googlebot User-agent: Googlebot-Image User-agent: Googlebot-News User-agent: Googlebot-Video User-agent: GoogleOther User-agent: Adsbot-Google User-Agent: Storebot-Google User-Agent: AdsBot-Google-Mobile User-Agent: APIs-Google User-agent: Twitterbot User-agent: Applebot User-agent: Ouestfrancebot User-agent: Taboolabot User-agent: Proximic User-agent: upday User-agent: Bingbot User-agent: exabot User-agent: Slurp User-agent: ia_archiver User-agent: grapeshot User-agent: facebookexternalhit User-agent: Qwantbot User-agent: cXensebot User-agent: AmazonAdBot User-agent: ibouBot User-agent: ibou-search User-agent: ibou-discovery User-agent: ibou-images User-agent: ibou-news User-agent: bnf.fr_bot # Sitemaps Sitemap: https://www.ouest-france.fr/sitemap.xml Sitemap: https://www.ouest-france.fr/googlenews.xml # Paths Disallow: */mail?id=* Disallow: */newsletters/bundles/* Disallow: */test-de-publication-* Disallow: /*%2525 Disallow: /*&edition=* Disallow: /*&fbclid=* Disallow: /*&mediego* Disallow: /*&parution=* Disallow: /*?datasport* Disallow: /*?date=* Disallow: /*?dateCompetition=* Disallow: /*?dialog=* Disallow: /*?edition=* Disallow: /*?fbclid=* Disallow: /*?login Disallow: /login?redirect=* Disallow: /logout?redirect=* Disallow: /*?logout Disallow: /*?mediego* Disallow: /*?parution=* Disallow: /admin/ Disallow: /ajax_comment/ Disallow: /balades/ Disallow: /balades? Disallow: /cinema/film/ Disallow: /comment/reply/ Disallow: /communaute/galerie-photo/*/ajout Disallow: /economie/entreprises/centrale-des-marches Disallow: /economie/entreprises/evenements-des-entreprises Disallow: /economie/entreprises/offres-emploi Disallow: /espace-contributions/ Disallow: /espace-debat/utilisateur/ Disallow: /espace-debat/commentaires/ Disallow: /etudiant/job-formation/ Disallow: /examens/ Disallow: /filter/tips/ Disallow: /install.php Disallow: /jeux-olympiques/resultats/*/?* Disallow: /mail?type* Disallow: /meteo/*/?date=* Disallow: /obseques/search/ Disallow: /publication-statics/ Disallow: /recherche/ Disallow: /rpc/ Disallow: /scribblelive Disallow: /search/ Disallow: /share/ Disallow: /shopping/code-promo/redirection Disallow: /sport/running/*/calendrier-des-courses/?* Disallow: /stories/ Disallow: /update.php Disallow: /user Disallow: /user/ Disallow: /user/login/ Disallow: /user/logout/ Disallow: /user/password/ Disallow: /user/register?* Disallow: /xmlrpc.php User-agent: Googlebot-News Disallow: /cinema/salle/ Disallow: /espace-debat/ Disallow: /communaute/ Disallow: /shopping/code-promo/ # Crawling limitation fixed for low priority bots User-agent: exabot User-agent: Slurp User-agent: ia_archiver Crawl-Delay: 20 User-agent: ChatGPT-User User-agent: Claude-User User-agent: Claude-SearchBot User-agent: MistralAI-User User-agent: PerplexityBot User-agent: Perplexity-User User-agent: DuckAssistBot User-agent: Gemini-DeepResearch User-agent: Applebot-Extended User-agent: Google-Extended User-agent: Google-NotebookLM User-agent: FacebookBot User-agent: Amazonbot User-agent: Bytespider User-agent: OAI-SearchBot User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher User-agent: Meta-WebIndexer User-agent: MistralAI-Index Disallow: /shopping/code-promo/ Allow: /shopping/ Allow: /tourisme/ Allow: /qui-sommes-nous/ Allow: /publi-info/ Allow: /auvergne-rhone-alpes/ Allow: /bourgogne-franche-comte/ Allow: /centre-val-de-loire/ Allow: /corse/ Allow: /grand-est/ Allow: /hauts-de-france/ Allow: /ile-de-france/ Allow: /mayotte/ Allow: /nouvelle-aquitaine/ Allow: /nouvelle-caledonie/ Allow: /polynesie/ Allow: /provence-alpes-cote-dazur/ Allow: /region-guadeloupe/ Allow: /region-guyane/ Allow: /region-la-reunion/ Allow: /region-martinique/ Allow: /region-occitanie/ Allow: /saint-barthelemy/ Allow: /saint-pierre-et-miquelon/ Allow: /tahiti/ Allow: /wallis-et-futuna/ Allow: /*/$ Disallow: /*? User-agent: 5emeRue Disallow: / User-agent: 5erue Disallow: / User-agent: adequat Disallow: / User-agent: adequat-systems Disallow: / User-agent: AgentCore-Browser Disallow: / User-agent: Ai2Bot-Dolma Disallow: / User-agent: AI2Bot/v2.0 Disallow: / User-agent: Aihitdata.com Disallow: / User-agent: Amazonbot Disallow: / User-agent: AmazonBot Disallow: / User-agent: Amzn-SearchBot Disallow: / User-agent: Amzn-User Disallow: / User-agent: AmiSoftware Disallow: / User-agent: amazon-kendra Disallow: / User-agent: anthropic-ai Disallow: / User-agent: Applebot-Extended Disallow: / User-agent: Argus Disallow: / User-agent: Asknread Disallow: / User-agent: asknread.com Disallow: / User-agent: Augure Disallow: / User-agent: auramundi Disallow: / User-agent: bedrockbot/3.0 Disallow: / User-agent: Bloodhound Disallow: / User-agent: Bytespider Disallow: / User-agent: CCBot Disallow: / User-agent: ChatGPT-User Disallow: / User-agent: ChatGPT-Agent Disallow: / User-agent: ChatGLM-Spider Disallow: / User-agent: Channel3Bot Disallow: / User-agent: Cision Disallow: / User-agent: ClaudeBot Disallow: / User-agent: Claude-SearchBot Disallow: / User-agent: Claude-User Disallow: / User-agent: Claude-Web Disallow: / User-agent: Cledarabot Disallow: / User-agent: coexel Disallow: / User-agent: Cohere-ai Disallow: / User-agent: ConveraCrawler Disallow: / User-agent: Corporama Disallow: / User-agent: CotoyogiBot Disallow: / User-agent: cydralspider Disallow: / User-agent: DeepSeekBot Disallow: / User-agent: DemoSFBot Disallow: / User-agent: Diffbot Disallow: / User-agent: Digimind Disallow: / User-agent: DownloadNinja Disallow: / User-agent: downloadexpress Disallow: / User-agent: DuckAssistBot Disallow: / User-agent: EDD Disallow: / User-agent: ellisphere Disallow: / User-agent: eureka Disallow: / User-agent: Europresse Disallow: / User-agent: Explore Disallow: / User-agent: Factiva Disallow: / User-agent: Fasterfox Disallow: / User-agent: Fetch Disallow: / User-agent: gammaSpider Disallow: / User-agent: Gemini-DeepResearch Disallow: / User-agent: Google-Extended Disallow: / User-agent: Google-NotebookLM Disallow: / User-agent: GoogleAgent-Shopping Disallow: / User-agent: GoogleAgent-URLContext Disallow: / User-agent: Google-CloudVertextBot Disallow: / User-agent: GPTBot Disallow: / User-agent: grub-client Disallow: / User-agent: Grok Bot Disallow: / User-agent: HTTrack Disallow: / User-agent: ia_archiver Disallow: / User-agent: IAskBot Disallow: / User-agent: ia_archiver-web.archive.org Disallow: / User-agent: ICC-Crawler Disallow: / User-agent: ImageSiftBot Disallow: / User-agent: img2dataset Disallow: / User-agent: indexer Disallow: / User-agent: infoseek Disallow: / User-agent: Jetbot Disallow: / User-agent: JuspayVisaInnovationCentreAgentApp Disallow: / User-agent: k2spider Disallow: / User-agent: Kantar Disallow: / User-agent: kbcrawl Disallow: / User-agent: KernelSearchBot Disallow: / User-agent: Knowings Disallow: / User-agent: KunatoBot Disallow: / User-agent: larbin Disallow: / User-agent: leadbox Disallow: / User-agent: libwww Disallow: / User-agent: LightSiteBot Disallow: / User-agent: LinerBot Disallow: / User-agent: linkfluence Disallow: / User-agent: linko Disallow: / User-agent: manageo Disallow: / User-agent: Manus.im Disallow: / User-agent: mediacompil Disallow: / User-agent: Meltwater Disallow: / User-agent: mention Disallow: / User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent Disallow: / User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher Disallow: / User-agent: Meta-WebIndexer Disallow: / User-agent: Mistral.ai/crawler Disallow: / User-agent: MistralAI-User Disallow: / User-agent: MistralAI-Index Disallow: / User-agent: MistralAI-training Disallow: / User-agent: Moreover Disallow: / User-agent: Muse Agent Disallow: / User-agent: MSIECrawler Disallow: / User-agent: mytwip Disallow: / User-agent: newscan-online Disallow: / User-agent: NewsNow Disallow: / User-agent: Newzbin Disallow: / User-agent: NPBot Disallow: / User-agent: OAI-SearchBot Disallow: / User-agent: ObjectsSearch Disallow: / User-agent: Offline Explorer Disallow: / User-agent: Omgili Disallow: / User-agent: opinion-tracker Disallow: / User-agent: Ora.ai Disallow: / User-agent: PanguBot Disallow: / User-agent: Perplexity-User Disallow: / User-agent: PerplexityBot Disallow: / User-agent: PetalBot Disallow: / User-agent: Pimptrain Disallow: / User-agent: proxem Disallow: / User-agent: ProRataIncBot Disallow: / User-agent: QualifiedBot Disallow: / User-agent: QuepasaCreep Disallow: / User-agent: Qwam-content-intelligence Disallow: / User-agent: Raven Disallow: / User-agent: readability.com Disallow: / User-agent: RyeBot Disallow: / User-agent: Riggle Disallow: / User-agent: scoop.it Disallow: / User-agent: score3 Disallow: / User-agent: SeekrBot Disallow: / User-agent: Shopify Disallow: / User-agent: Sindup Disallow: / User-agent: sitecheck.internetseer.com Disallow: / User-agent: SiteSnagger Disallow: / User-agent: spotter Disallow: / User-agent: Synthesio Disallow: / User-agent: Talkwater Disallow: / User-agent: Teleport Disallow: / User-agent: TikTokSpider Disallow: / User-agent: TikTokSpider Disallow: / User-agent: TeleportPro Disallow: / User-agent: Timpibot Disallow: / User-agent: trendeo Disallow: / User-agent: trendybuzz Disallow: / User-agent: TunitinBot Disallow: / User-agent: Timpibot Disallow: / User-agent: up2news Disallow: / User-agent: vecteurplus Disallow: / User-agent: VelenCrawler Disallow: / User-agent: Verif Disallow: / User-agent: verticalsearch Disallow: / User-agent: VisaLaneAgent Disallow: / User-agent: VisaLoopAgent Disallow: / User-agent: vsw Disallow: / User-agent: wapspider Disallow: / User-agent: WARDBot Disallow: / User-agent: WebCopier Disallow: / User-agent: WebReaper Disallow: / User-agent: WebStripper Disallow: / User-agent: WebZinger Disallow: / User-agent: WebZIP Disallow: / User-agent: Wget Disallow: / User-agent: winello Disallow: / User-agent: WPBot Disallow: / User-agent: WrtnBot Disallow: / User-agent: YouBot Disallow: / User-agent: Youmag Disallow: / User-agent: ZanistaBot Disallow: / User-agent: Zealbot Disallow: / User-agent: Zite Disallow: / User-agent: ZyBORG Disallow: / User-agent: * Disallow: /
robots.txt versions
| From | Through | State | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-28 | 2026-10-28 | ok 200 | f5f889cfe4bf | diff with previous |
| 2026-10-27 | 2026-10-27 | ok 200 | 9bab0e5d72c5 | diff with previous |
| 2026-10-26 | 2026-10-26 | ok 200 | 6d56a2ffd0f3 |
Timeline of changes
| Date | What changed |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-28 | robots.txt changed |
| 2026-10-27 | robots.txt changed |
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.ouest-france.fr | ok view | blocks | partial | unknown | partial | partial | unknown | partial |
| 2025-09-15 CC-MAIN-2025-38 | www.ouest-france.fr | ok view | blocks | blocks | unknown | blocks | blocks | unknown | blocks |
| 2024-09-16 CC-MAIN-2024-38 | www.ouest-france.fr | ok view | blocks | blocks | unknown | blocks | blocks | unknown | blocks |
| 2023-10-02 CC-MAIN-2023-40 | www.ouest-france.fr | ok view | blocks | blocks | unknown | blocks | blocks | unknown | blocks |
| 2022-10-03 CC-MAIN-2022-40 | ouest-france.fr | redirect-only | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown |
| 2021-09-27 CC-MAIN-2021-39 | www.ouest-france.fr | ok view | blocks | blocks | unknown | blocks | blocks | unknown | blocks |
| 2020-09-28 CC-MAIN-2020-40 | www.ouest-france.fr | ok view | blocks | blocks | unknown | blocks | blocks | unknown | blocks |
| 2019-09-23 CC-MAIN-2019-39 | www.ouest-france.fr | ok view | blocks | blocks | unknown | blocks | blocks | unknown | blocks |
| 2018-09-24 CC-MAIN-2018-39 | www.ouest-france.fr | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2018-01-29 CC-MAIN-2018-05 | www.ouest-france.fr | fetch-blocked | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown |
| 2017-10-23 CC-MAIN-2017-43 | www.ouest-france.fr | ok view | blocks | blocks | unknown | blocks | blocks | unknown | blocks |
| 2017-09-25 CC-MAIN-2017-39 | www.ouest-france.fr | ok view | blocks | blocks | unknown | blocks | blocks | unknown | blocks |
| 2017-07-24 CC-MAIN-2017-30 | www.ouest-france.fr | ok view | blocks | blocks | unknown | blocks | blocks | unknown | blocks |
| 2017-04-24 CC-MAIN-2017-17 | ouest-france.fr | ok view | blocks | blocks | unknown | blocks | blocks | unknown | blocks |
| 2017-01-23 CC-MAIN-2017-04 | www.ouest-france.fr | ok view | blocks | blocks | unknown | blocks | blocks | unknown | blocks |
| 2016-10-03 CC-MAIN-2016-40 | www.ouest-france.fr | ok view | blocks | blocks | unknown | blocks | blocks | unknown | blocks |
| 2016-09-05 CC-MAIN-2016-36 | www.ouest-france.fr | ok view | blocks | blocks | unknown | blocks | blocks | unknown | blocks |
Evidence
Every daily observation of ouest-france.fr 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 (pending (4 calendars)).
API: https://infrarabbit.com/crawlers/api/v1/policy/ouest-france.fr