pixabay.com: what it tells AI crawlers

On 27 October 2026, pixabay.com's robots.txt fully blocked GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended 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://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, 2026-10-27

Other signals

robots.txt as recorded sha256 98379ec42da468b3…

User-agent: *
Allow: /api/docs/
Allow: /static/*.*
Disallow: *?*orientation=*
Disallow: *?*manual_search=*
Disallow: *?*min_width=*
Disallow: *?*min_height=*
Disallow: *?*date=*
Disallow: *?*colors=*
Disallow: *?*order=*
Disallow: *?*animation=*
Disallow: *?*resolution_hd=*
Disallow: *?*genre=*
Disallow: *?*mood=*
Disallow: *?*movement=*
Disallow: *?*theme=*
Disallow: *?*cat=*
Disallow: *?*layout=*
Disallow: *?*per_page=*
Disallow: /*ｃｏｍ
Disallow: /*ｖｉｐ
Disallow: /*ｃｃ
Disallow: /*.com
Disallow: /*.vip
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: /static/
Disallow: /*/accounts/login/?
Disallow: /accounts/login/?
Disallow: /*/accounts/logout/
Disallow: /accounts/logout/
Disallow: /*/accounts/follow*
Disallow: /accounts/follow*
Disallow: /*/accounts/messages/
Disallow: /accounts/register/*
Disallow: /*/accounts/register/*
Disallow: /*/blog/comments/
Disallow: /blog/comments/
Disallow: /bootstrap/*
Disallow: /*/bootstrap/*
Disallow: /*/feeds/
Disallow: /feeds/
Disallow: /*/forum/
Disallow: /forum/
Disallow: /*/users/*/collections/
Disallow: /*/images/tools/
Disallow: /*/images/comments/
Disallow: /*/images/download/*
Disallow: /*/videos/comments/
Disallow: /*/videos/download/*
Disallow: /newsletter/
Disallow: /get/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /cdn-cgi/*
Allow: /

User-agent: 008
User-agent: AhrefsBot
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
User-agent: Bytespider
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: dotbot
User-agent: Google-Extended
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: linguatools
User-agent: MJ12bot
User-agent: Ocelli
User-agent: Riddlerbot
User-agent: ShopWiki
User-agent: sistrix
User-agent: sitebot
User-agent: WBSearchBot
User-agent: www.integromedb.org/Crawler
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 2026-10-27: audit path (JSON), day root and OpenTimestamps proof (complete (bitcoin block 973493)).

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