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 · sha25691ec08e0ef075f8b…· 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 5d75956d07c5872c…
User-Agent: * Disallow: */likes Disallow: *orientation=* Disallow: *size=* Disallow: *color=* Disallow: */users/* Allow: /sitemaps/ Disallow: */download/* Disallow: */donate/* Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/sitemap.xml.gz Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/users/user-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/pt-BR/photo-sitemap.xml.gz Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/pt-BR/video-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/ca-ES/photo-sitemap.xml.gz Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/ca-ES/video-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/it-IT/photo-sitemap.xml.gz Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/it-IT/video-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/sv-SE/photo-sitemap.xml.gz Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/sv-SE/video-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/pl-PL/photo-sitemap.xml.gz Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/pl-PL/video-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/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-CN/photo-sitemap.xml.gz Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/zh-CN/video-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/th-TH/photo-sitemap.xml.gz Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/th-TH/video-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/hu-HU/photo-sitemap.xml.gz Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/hu-HU/video-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/cs-CZ/photo-sitemap.xml.gz Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/cs-CZ/video-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/fi-FI/photo-sitemap.xml.gz Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/fi-FI/video-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/el-GR/photo-sitemap.xml.gz Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/el-GR/video-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/nb-NO/photo-sitemap.xml.gz Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/nb-NO/video-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/tr-TR/photo-sitemap.xml.gz Sitemap: https://www.pexels.com/sitemaps/tr-TR/video-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
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