pixabay.com: what it tells AI crawlers

On 26 October 2026, pixabay.com's robots.txt fully blocked GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended and CCBot.

Last verified 2026-10-26 21:13 UTC (daily run of 2026-10-26). Proof for that day.

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robots.txt

ok (HTTP 200) · https://pixabay.com/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-26 · sha256 1b0d4f9b4b12b727… · view as recorded

The * group

allows applies to every agent without its own group

Per AI bot, 2026-10-26

Other signals

robots.txt as recorded sha256 691533f07569d521…

User-agent: *
Allow: /api/docs/
Allow: /static/*.*
Disallow: /static/
Disallow: /*/accounts/favorite/
Disallow: /*/accounts/follow*
Disallow: /accounts/follow*
Disallow: /*/accounts/messages/
Disallow: /*/blog/comments/
Disallow: /*/feeds/
Disallow: /*/forum/post/
Disallow: /*/forum/topic/
Disallow: /*/photos/tools/
Disallow: /*/photos/comments/
Disallow: /*/photos/download/*
Disallow: /*/videos/comments/
Disallow: /*/videos/download/*
Disallow: /feeds/
Disallow: /newsletter/
Disallow: /get/
Disallow: /api/
Crawl-delay: 1
Allow: /

User-agent: 008
User-agent: MJ12bot
User-agent: sitebot
User-agent: dotbot
User-agent: AhrefsBot
User-agent: Ocelli
User-agent: sistrix
User-agent: ShopWiki
User-agent: WBSearchBot
User-agent: Riddlerbot
User-agent: linguatools
User-agent: www.integromedb.org/Crawler
User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

Sitemap: https://pixabay.com/sitemap.xml.gz

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 pixabay.com is a leaf in that day's Merkle tree. Proof of the robots.txt line for 2026-10-26: audit path (JSON), day root and OpenTimestamps proof (complete (bitcoin block 973294)).

API: https://infrarabbit.com/crawlers/api/v1/policy/pixabay.com