pinterest.com: what it tells AI crawlers

On 28 October 2026, pinterest.com's robots.txt fully blocked GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Google-Extended, PerplexityBot and CCBot.

Last verified 2026-10-29 03:59 UTC (daily run of 2026-10-28). Proof for that day.

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robots.txt

ok (HTTP 200) · https://www.pinterest.com/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-28 · sha256 d317a43bac3e1819… · view as recorded

The * group

blocks applies to every agent without its own group

Per AI bot, 2026-10-28

Other signals

robots.txt as recorded sha256 f8ebf92d7e3becd1…

# Pinterest (and specifically the SEO team) is hiring!
#
# Learn about the SEO work that we're doing at http://engineering.pinterest.com/post/109318939139/demystifying-seo-with-experiments
#
# Check out some of our available positions at https://about.pinterest.com/en/careers/engineering-product
#
# Email seodev@pinterest.com to find out more.

User-agent: *
Disallow: /search?
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /bookmarklet/
Disallow: /prefs/
Disallow: /addboard/
Disallow: /follow_board/
Disallow: /follow_user/
Disallow: /delete_post/
Disallow: /logout/
Disallow: /new_invite/
Disallow: /invite/
Disallow: /invites/
Disallow: /invited/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /facebook/
Disallow: /autocomplete/
Disallow: /welcome/
Disallow: /register/
Disallow: /pw/*
Disallow: /source/*
Disallow: /secure/*
Disallow: /website/confirm/download*
Disallow: /_/_/switch/
Disallow: /_/_/report/
Disallow: /v3/pidgets/log/
Disallow: /v1/urls/count.json
Allow: /resource/*/get/
Disallow: /resource/
Disallow: /join/?next=*
Disallow: /login/?next=*
Disallow: /join/signup/?next=*
Disallow: /pin/*/repins
Disallow: /pin/*/likes
Disallow: /pin/*/email
Disallow: /pin/*/sent
Disallow: /pin/*/tag
Disallow: /pin/*/repin
Allow: /pin/create/
Disallow: /pin/find/
Disallow: /pin/find?url=*
Disallow: /pin/*/activity/
Disallow: /*/pins/*
Disallow: /*/likes/*
Disallow: /*/followers/*
Disallow: /*/following/*
Disallow: /csrf_error/
Disallow: /email/remove/
Disallow: /email/settings/
Disallow: /email/subscription/
Disallow: /editorial/*/*/
Disallow: /*/?z=1
Disallow: /explore/*/?p=*
Disallow: /*/boards/
Disallow: /topics/
Sitemap: https://www.pinterest.com/v2_sitemaps/www_v2_pin_sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.pinterest.com/v2_sitemaps/www_v2_board_sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.pinterest.com/v2_sitemaps/www_v2_user_sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.pinterest.com/v2_sitemaps/www_v2_klp_sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.pinterest.com/v2_sitemaps/www_v2_category_sitemap.xml
    

robots.txt versions

Timeline of changes

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.

Evidence

Every daily observation of pinterest.com 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/pinterest.com