people.com: what it tells AI crawlers
On 27 October 2026, people.com's robots.txt fully blocked ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Google-Extended, PerplexityBot and CCBot.
Last verified 2026-10-28 03:59 UTC (daily run of 2026-10-27). Proof for that day.
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- robots.txt
- ok (HTTP 200) · https://people.com/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-26 · sha256fc52677378c773fe…· 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 | allows | named in its own group |
| OAI-SearchBot | allows | named in its own group |
| ChatGPT-User | allows | 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 | 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 |
| AmazonBuyForMe | 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 |
| Bravebot | 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 |
| cohere-training-data-crawler | 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 |
| ERNIEBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| ExaSearchBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| FacebookBot | blocks | 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 |
| iAskBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| iaskspider | blocks | named in its own group |
| ImagesiftBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| imageSpider | blocks | named in its own group |
| ISSCyberRiskCrawler | blocks | named in its own group |
| LinerBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| LinkupBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| meta-externalfetcher | blocks | named in its own group |
| meta-webindexer | blocks | named in its own group |
| MistralAI-Index | blocks | named in its own group |
| MistralAI-User | 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 |
| Shap-User | blocks | named in its own group |
| ShapBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Timpibot | blocks | named in its own group |
| VelenPublicWebCrawler | blocks | named in its own group |
| Webzio-Extended | blocks | named in its own group |
| YouBot | 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 ff667cc63f5227b0…
# Sitemaps Sitemap: https://people.com/sitemaps/news/1/sitemap.xml Sitemap: https://people.com/sitemap.xml Sitemap: https://people.com/webstory/sitemap.xml Sitemap: https://people.com/coupons/sitemap.xml User-agent: * #legacy Disallow: /wp-admin/ Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php Disallow: /wp-login.php Disallow: /activate/ # har har Disallow: /cgi-bin/ # MT refugees Disallow: /mshots/v1/ Disallow: /next/ Disallow: /public.api/ #Onecms Disallow: /*.jhtml Disallow: /*___itemUrl___ Disallow: /embed Disallow: /oembed Disallow: /dyn/ Disallow: /labs/ Disallow: /order/ Disallow: /child/ Disallow: /photos/ Disallow: /common/ Disallow: /content/ Disallow: /private/ Disallow: /premium/ Disallow: /partner/ Disallow: /templates/ Disallow: /community/kudos/ Disallow: /community/user/ Disallow: /templatedata/ Disallow: /videos/theme/ Disallow: /videos/widgets/ #content Disallow: /search* Disallow: /?s=* Disallow: /coupons/view/ Disallow: /coupons/s/* Disallow: /getcoupon/* Disallow: /coupons/*?coupon= Disallow: /account Disallow: /sweepstakes/rule/ Disallow: /sweepstakes/fact/ Disallow: /archive* Disallow: /author/*/?content=swears User-agent: IRLbot Crawl-delay: 3600 #legacy Disallow: /wp-admin/ Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php Disallow: /wp-login.php Disallow: /activate/ # har har Disallow: /cgi-bin/ # MT refugees Disallow: /mshots/v1/ Disallow: /next/ Disallow: /public.api/ #Onecms Disallow: /*.jhtml Disallow: /*___itemUrl___ Disallow: /embed Disallow: /oembed Disallow: /dyn/ Disallow: /labs/ Disallow: /order/ Disallow: /child/ Disallow: /photos/ Disallow: /common/ Disallow: /content/ Disallow: /private/ Disallow: /premium/ Disallow: /partner/ Disallow: /templates/ Disallow: /community/kudos/ Disallow: /community/user/ Disallow: /templatedata/ Disallow: /videos/theme/ Disallow: /videos/widgets/ #content Disallow: /search* Disallow: /?s=* Disallow: /coupons/view/ Disallow: /coupons/s/* Disallow: /getcoupon/* Disallow: /coupons/*?coupon= Disallow: /account Disallow: /sweepstakes/rules/ Disallow: /sweepstakes/facts/ Disallow: /archive* Disallow: /author/*/?content=swears User-agent: AdsBot-Google #legacy Disallow: /wp-admin/ Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php Disallow: /wp-login.php Disallow: /activate/ # har har Disallow: /cgi-bin/ # MT refugees Disallow: /mshots/v1/ Disallow: /next/ Disallow: /public.api/ #Onecms Disallow: /*.jhtml Disallow: /*___itemUrl___ Disallow: /embed Disallow: /oembed Disallow: /dyn/ Disallow: /labs/ Disallow: /order/ Disallow: /child/ Disallow: /photos/ Disallow: /common/ Disallow: /content/ Disallow: /private/ Disallow: /premium/ Disallow: /partner/ Disallow: /templates/ Disallow: /community/kudos/ Disallow: /community/user/ Disallow: /templatedata/ Disallow: /videos/theme/ Disallow: /videos/widgets/ #content Disallow: /search* Allow: /?s=* Disallow: /coupons/view/ Disallow: /coupons/s/* Disallow: /getcoupon/* Disallow: /coupons/*?coupon= Disallow: /account Disallow: /sweepstakes/rules/ Disallow: /sweepstakes/facts/ Disallow: /archive* Disallow: /author/*/?content=swears User-agent: Googlebot #legacy Disallow: /wp-admin/ Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php Disallow: /wp-login.php Disallow: /activate/ # har har Disallow: /cgi-bin/ # MT refugees Disallow: /mshots/v1/ Disallow: /next/ Disallow: /public.api/ #Onecms Disallow: /*.jhtml Disallow: /*___itemUrl___ Disallow: /embed Disallow: /oembed Disallow: /dyn/ Disallow: /labs/ Disallow: /order/ Disallow: /child/ Disallow: /photos/ Disallow: /common/ Disallow: /content/ Disallow: /private/ Disallow: /premium/ Disallow: /partner/ Disallow: /templates/ Disallow: /community/kudos/ Disallow: /community/user/ Disallow: /templatedata/ Disallow: /videos/theme/ Disallow: /videos/widgets/ #content Disallow: /search* Disallow: /?s=* Disallow: /coupons/view/ Disallow: /coupons/s/* Disallow: /getcoupon/* Disallow: /coupons/*?coupon= Disallow: /syndication/ Disallow: /account Disallow: /sweepstakes/rules/ Disallow: /sweepstakes/facts/ Disallow: /archive* Disallow: /author/*/?content=swears
robots.txt versions
| From | Through | State | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-26 | 2026-10-28 | ok 200 | fc52677378c7 |
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 | people.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | blocks | allows | unknown | blocks |
| 2024-09-16 CC-MAIN-2024-38 | people.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2023-10-02 CC-MAIN-2023-40 | people.com | ok view | blocks | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2022-10-03 CC-MAIN-2022-40 | people.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2021-09-27 CC-MAIN-2021-39 | people.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2020-09-28 CC-MAIN-2020-40 | people.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2019-09-23 CC-MAIN-2019-39 | people.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2018-09-24 CC-MAIN-2018-39 | people.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2018-04-23 CC-MAIN-2018-17 | people.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2018-01-29 CC-MAIN-2018-05 | people.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-10-23 CC-MAIN-2017-43 | people.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-09-25 CC-MAIN-2017-39 | people.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-07-24 CC-MAIN-2017-30 | people.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-04-24 CC-MAIN-2017-17 | people.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-01-23 CC-MAIN-2017-04 | people.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2016-10-03 CC-MAIN-2016-40 | www.people.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2016-09-05 CC-MAIN-2016-36 | people.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
Evidence
Every daily observation of people.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/people.com