pexels.com: what it tells AI crawlers

On 27 October 2026, pexels.com's robots.txt fully blocked GPTBot, ClaudeBot and CCBot.

Last verified 2026-10-28 03:59 UTC (daily run of 2026-10-27). Proof for that day.

Panel: top 1k (Tranco)
robots.txt: ok (HTTP 200) · https://www.pexels.com/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-27 · sha256 91ec08e0ef075f8b… · 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	blocks	named in its own group
OAI-SearchBot	allows	through the * group
ChatGPT-User	allows	through the * group
ClaudeBot	blocks	named in its own group
Claude-SearchBot	allows	through the * group
Claude-User	allows	through the * group
PerplexityBot	allows	through the * group
Perplexity-User	allows	through the * group
Googlebot	allows	through the * group
Google-Extended	allows	through the * 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	allows	through the * group
Amazonbot	allows	through the * group
facebookexternalhit	allows	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 00eeeed2682d1317…

  User-Agent: *
  Disallow: */likes
  Disallow: *orientation=*
  Disallow: *size=*
  Disallow: *color=*
  Disallow: *people_count=*
  Disallow: *people_age=*
  Disallow: *max_width=*
  Disallow: *min_width=*
  Disallow: *max_height=*
  Disallow: *min_height=*
  Disallow: *date_from=*
  Disallow: *min_duration=*
  Disallow: *max_duration=*
  Disallow: *frame_rate=*
  Disallow: *resolution_name=*
  Disallow: *q=*
  Disallow: *page=21
  Disallow: *page=22
  Disallow: *page=23
  Disallow: *page=24
  Disallow: *page=25
  Disallow: */users/*
  Disallow: /@*/followers/*
  Disallow: /*/@*/followers/*
  Disallow: /@*/following/*
  Disallow: /*/@*/following/*
  Allow: /sitemaps/
  Disallow: */download/*
  Disallow: */donate/*
  Disallow: */report/*
  Disallow: */api/v*
  Disallow: /*ｃｏｍ
  Disallow: /*ｖｉｐ
  Disallow: /*ｃｃ
  Disallow: /*.com
  Disallow: /*.vip
  Disallow: /*.cc
  Disallow: /*.tw
  Disallow: /*.hk
  Disallow: /*.co
  Disallow: /*.bet
  Disallow: /*.net
  Disallow: /*.bio
  Disallow: /*.cyou
  Disallow: /*.info
  Disallow: /*.c0m
  Disallow: /*.CC
  Disallow: /*７
  Disallow: /*６
  Disallow: /*２
  Disallow: /*１
  Disallow: /*０
  Disallow: /*８
  Disallow: /*５
  Disallow: /*４
  Disallow: /*３
  Disallow: /*９
  Disallow: /*【
  Disallow: /*💯
  Disallow: /*✈️
  Disallow: /*📞
  Disallow: /*⚡
  Disallow: /*✨
  Disallow: /*🌟
  Disallow: /*♥
  Disallow: /*☀️
  Disallow: /*❄️
  Disallow: /*⭐
  Disallow: /*🩸
  Disallow: /*✈
  Disallow: /*▶
  Disallow: /*🔥
  Disallow: /*✔️
  Disallow: /*⛔
  Disallow: /*🌲
  Disallow: /*🀄
  Disallow: /*►
  Disallow: /*㊙
  Disallow: /*㊣
  Disallow: /*☞
  Disallow: /*✌
  Disallow: /*❆
  Disallow: /*𝓥𝓧：
  Disallow: /*vx：
  Disallow: /*ㅣ
  Disallow: /*（
  Disallow: /*whatsapp：
  Disallow: /*line:
  Disallow: /*tg@
  Disallow: /*tg:
  Disallow: /*（tg）
  Disallow: /*telegram;
  Disallow: /*telegram@
  Disallow: /*telegram:
  Disallow: /*微信
  Disallow: /*薇芯
  Disallow: /*薇兴
  Disallow: /*薇心
  Disallow: /*薇信
  Disallow: /*溦信
  Disallow: /*溦兴
  Disallow: /*葳心
  Disallow: /*电报
  Disallow: /*电薇
  Disallow: /*卫星
  Disallow: /*오피
  Disallow: /*폰팅
  Disallow: /*폰섹
  Disallow: /*텔레톡
  Disallow: /*키스방

  User-agent: AdsBot-Google
  User-agent: AdsIdxBot
  User-agent: Google-InspectionTool
  User-agent: facebookexternalhit
  Allow: /

  User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
  User-agent: Claude-User
  User-agent: Perplexity-User
  Allow: /

  User-agent: Applebot-Extended
  User-agent: GPTBot
  User-agent: Google-Extended
  User-agent: Bytespider
  User-agent: ClaudeBot
  User-agent: CCBot
  User-agent: PerplexityBot
  Disallow: /

  User-agent: Twitterbot
  Allow: /

  Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/users/user-sitemap.xml.gz
  Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/blog-posts/blog-post-sitemap.xml.gz
  Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/challenges/challenge-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/en-US/photo-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/en-US/video-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/en-US/photo-search-queries-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/en-US/video-search-queries-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/pt-BR/photo-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/pt-BR/video-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/pt-BR/photo-search-queries-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/pt-BR/video-search-queries-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/es-ES/photo-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/es-ES/video-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/es-ES/photo-search-queries-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/es-ES/video-search-queries-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/ca-ES/photo-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/ca-ES/video-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/ca-ES/photo-search-queries-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/ca-ES/video-search-queries-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/de-DE/photo-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/de-DE/video-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/de-DE/photo-search-queries-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/de-DE/video-search-queries-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/it-IT/photo-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/it-IT/video-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/it-IT/photo-search-queries-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/it-IT/video-search-queries-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/fr-FR/photo-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/fr-FR/video-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/fr-FR/photo-search-queries-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/fr-FR/video-search-queries-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/sv-SE/photo-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/sv-SE/video-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/sv-SE/photo-search-queries-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/sv-SE/video-search-queries-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/id-ID/photo-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/id-ID/video-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/id-ID/photo-search-queries-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/id-ID/video-search-queries-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/pl-PL/photo-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/pl-PL/video-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/pl-PL/photo-search-queries-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/pl-PL/video-search-queries-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/ja-JP/photo-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/ja-JP/video-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/ja-JP/photo-search-queries-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/ja-JP/video-search-queries-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/zh-TW/photo-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/zh-TW/video-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/zh-TW/photo-search-queries-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/zh-TW/video-search-queries-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/zh-CN/photo-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/zh-CN/video-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/zh-CN/photo-search-queries-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/zh-CN/video-search-queries-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/ko-KR/photo-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/ko-KR/video-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/ko-KR/photo-search-queries-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/ko-KR/video-search-queries-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/th-TH/photo-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/th-TH/video-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/th-TH/photo-search-queries-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/th-TH/video-search-queries-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/nl-NL/photo-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/nl-NL/video-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/nl-NL/photo-search-queries-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/nl-NL/video-search-queries-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/hu-HU/photo-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/hu-HU/video-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/hu-HU/photo-search-queries-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/hu-HU/video-search-queries-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/vi-VN/photo-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/vi-VN/video-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/vi-VN/photo-search-queries-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/vi-VN/video-search-queries-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/cs-CZ/photo-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/cs-CZ/video-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/cs-CZ/photo-search-queries-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/cs-CZ/video-search-queries-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/da-DK/photo-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/da-DK/video-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/da-DK/photo-search-queries-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/da-DK/video-search-queries-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/fi-FI/photo-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/fi-FI/video-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/fi-FI/photo-search-queries-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/fi-FI/video-search-queries-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/uk-UA/photo-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/uk-UA/video-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/uk-UA/photo-search-queries-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/uk-UA/video-search-queries-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/el-GR/photo-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/el-GR/video-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/el-GR/photo-search-queries-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/el-GR/video-search-queries-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/ro-RO/photo-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/ro-RO/video-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/ro-RO/photo-search-queries-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/ro-RO/video-search-queries-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/nb-NO/photo-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/nb-NO/video-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/nb-NO/photo-search-queries-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/nb-NO/video-search-queries-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/sk-SK/photo-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/sk-SK/video-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/sk-SK/photo-search-queries-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/sk-SK/video-search-queries-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/tr-TR/photo-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/tr-TR/video-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/tr-TR/photo-search-queries-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/tr-TR/video-search-queries-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/ru-RU/photo-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/ru-RU/video-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/ru-RU/photo-search-queries-sitemap.xml.gz
    Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/ru-RU/video-search-queries-sitemap.xml.gz

robots.txt versions

From	Through	State	Version
2026-10-27	2026-10-27	ok 200	`91ec08e0ef07`	diff with previous
2026-10-26	2026-10-26	ok 200	`645c2591dd53`

Timeline of changes

Date	What 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.pexels.com	ok view	blocks	allows	unknown	blocks	allows	unknown	blocks
2025-09-15 CC-MAIN-2025-38	www.pexels.com	ok view	blocks	allows	unknown	blocks	allows	unknown	allows
2024-09-16 CC-MAIN-2024-38	www.pexels.com	ok view	allows	allows	unknown	allows	allows	unknown	allows
2023-10-02 CC-MAIN-2023-40	www.pexels.com	ok view	allows	allows	unknown	allows	allows	unknown	allows
2022-10-03 CC-MAIN-2022-40	www.pexels.com	ok view	allows	allows	unknown	allows	allows	unknown	allows
2021-09-27 CC-MAIN-2021-39	www.pexels.com	ok view	allows	allows	unknown	allows	allows	unknown	allows
2020-09-28 CC-MAIN-2020-40	www.pexels.com	ok view	allows	allows	unknown	allows	allows	unknown	allows
2019-09-23 CC-MAIN-2019-39	www.pexels.com	ok view	allows	allows	unknown	allows	allows	unknown	allows
2018-09-24 CC-MAIN-2018-39	www.pexels.com	ok view	allows	allows	unknown	allows	allows	unknown	allows
2017-09-25 CC-MAIN-2017-39	www.pexels.com	ok view	allows	allows	unknown	allows	allows	unknown	allows
2017-01-23 CC-MAIN-2017-04	www.pexels.com	ok view	allows	allows	unknown	allows	allows	unknown	allows
2016-10-03 CC-MAIN-2016-40	www.pexels.com	ok view	allows	allows	unknown	allows	allows	unknown	allows
2016-09-05 CC-MAIN-2016-36	pexels.com	ok view	allows	allows	unknown	allows	allows	unknown	allows

Evidence

Every daily observation of pexels.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/pexels.com