quora.com: what it tells AI crawlers
On 27 October 2026, quora.com's robots.txt fully blocked GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot and PerplexityBot.
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://www.quora.com/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-26 · sha256a3755528cbd265c9…· view as recorded - The * group
- partial 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 | blocks | named in its own group |
| ChatGPT-User | blocks | named in its own group |
| ClaudeBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Claude-SearchBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Claude-User | blocks | named in its own group |
| PerplexityBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Perplexity-User | partial | through the * group |
| Googlebot | allows | named in its own group |
| Google-Extended | allows | named in its own group |
| Applebot-Extended | blocks | named in its own group |
| CCBot | partial | through the * group |
| Bytespider | blocks | named in its own group |
| Meta-ExternalAgent | partial | through the * group |
| Amazonbot | allows | named in its own group |
| Applebot | allows | named in its own group |
| Bravebot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Diffbot | blocks | named in its own group |
| ImagesiftBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| PetalBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Scrapy | blocks | 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 8e9cc408bce73593…
# If you operate a search engine and would like to crawl Quora, please # email robotstxt@quora.com. Thanks. 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/anonymous/ User-agent: PGBot Disallow: /ajax/ Disallow: /@async Disallow: /*/@async Disallow: /log/ Disallow: /*/log Disallow: /*/about Disallow: /*/action Disallow: /*/activity Disallow: /*/all_questions Disallow: /*/all_posts$ Disallow: /*/all_posts/ Disallow: /*/blogs$ Disallow: /*/blogs/ Disallow: /*/followers Disallow: /*/following Disallow: /*/manage Disallow: /*/mentions Disallow: /*/merged Disallow: /*/open_questions Disallow: /*/questions Disallow: /*/related Disallow: /*/reviews$ Disallow: /*/reviews/ Disallow: /*/share Disallow: /*/topic-bio Disallow: /*/topic_bio Disallow: /*/topics Disallow: /*/comment Disallow: /comment/ Disallow: /*/comments Disallow: /*/all_comments Disallow: /*/answer_comments Disallow: /*/mobile_collapsed Disallow: /*/mobile_expanded_voter_list Disallow: /home/global_feed Disallow: /search?q= Disallow: /search/?q= Disallow: /digest/ Disallow: /email_optout/ Disallow: /qemail/ Disallow: /invite/ Disallow: /widgets/content_iframe/ Disallow: /widgets/content_js/ Disallow: /_/ Disallow: /*_POST$ Disallow: /*_POST/ Disallow: /webnode2/ Disallow: /anonymous/ # People share a lot of sensitive material on Quora - controversial political # views, workplace gossip and compensation, and negative opinions held of # companies. Over many years, as they change jobs or change their views, it is # important that they can delete or anonymize their previously-written answers. # # We opt out of the wayback machine because inclusion would allow people to # discover the identity of authors who had written sensitive answers publicly and # later had made them anonymous, and because it would prevent authors from being # able to remove their content from the internet if they change their mind about # publishing it. As far as we can tell, there is no way for sites to selectively # programmatically remove content from the archive and so this is the only way # for us to protect writers. If they open up an API where we can remove content # from the archive when authors remove it from Quora, but leave the rest of the # content archived, we would be happy to opt back in. See the page here: # # https://archive.org/about/exclude.php # # Meanwhile, if you are looking for an older version of any content on Quora, we # have full edit history tracked and accessible in product (with the exception of # content that has been removed by the author). You can generally access this by # clicking on timestamps, or by appending "/log" to the URL of any content page. # # For any questions or feedback about this please email robotstxt@quora.com. User-agent: ia_archiver Disallow: / User-agent: * Allow: /$ Allow: /about$ Allow: /about/ Allow: /challenges$ Allow: /press$ Allow: /login/ Allow: /signup$ Disallow: / Disallow: /ajax/ Disallow: /@async Disallow: /*/@async Disallow: /log/ Disallow: /*/log Disallow: /*/about Disallow: /*/action Disallow: /*/activity Disallow: /*/all_questions Disallow: /*/all_posts$ Disallow: /*/all_posts/ Disallow: /*/blogs$ Disallow: /*/blogs/ Disallow: /*/followers Disallow: /*/following Disallow: /*/manage Disallow: /*/mentions Disallow: /*/merged Disallow: /*/open_questions Disallow: /*/questions Disallow: /*/related Disallow: /*/reviews$ Disallow: /*/reviews/ Disallow: /*/share Disallow: /*/topic-bio Disallow: /*/topic_bio Disallow: /*/topics Disallow: /*/comment Disallow: /comment/ Disallow: /*/comments Disallow: /*/all_comments Disallow: /*/answer_comments Disallow: /*/mobile_collapsed Disallow: /*/mobile_expanded_voter_list Disallow: /home/global_feed Disallow: /search?q= Disallow: /search/?q= Disallow: /digest/ Disallow: /email_optout/ Disallow: /qemail/ Disallow: /invite/ Disallow: /widgets/content_iframe/ Disallow: /widgets/content_js/ Disallow: /_/ Disallow: /*_POST$ Disallow: /*_POST/ Disallow: /webnode2/ Disallow: /anonymous/ Sitemap: https://www.quora.com/sitemap
robots.txt versions
| From | Through | State | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-26 | 2026-10-27 | ok 200 | a3755528cbd2 |
Timeline of changes
| Date | What changed |
|---|---|
| No changes since the first observation (2026-10-26). | |
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.quora.com | ok view | blocks | blocks | unknown | blocks | blocks | unknown | blocks |
| 2025-09-15 CC-MAIN-2025-38 | www.quora.com | ok view | blocks | blocks | unknown | blocks | blocks | unknown | blocks |
| 2024-09-16 CC-MAIN-2024-38 | www.quora.com | ok view | blocks | partial | unknown | partial | partial | unknown | partial |
| 2023-10-02 CC-MAIN-2023-40 | www.quora.com | ok view | blocks | partial | unknown | partial | partial | unknown | partial |
| 2022-10-03 CC-MAIN-2022-40 | www.quora.com | ok view | partial | partial | unknown | partial | partial | unknown | partial |
| 2021-09-27 CC-MAIN-2021-39 | www.quora.com | ok view | partial | partial | unknown | partial | partial | unknown | partial |
| 2020-09-28 CC-MAIN-2020-40 | www.quora.com | ok view | partial | partial | unknown | partial | partial | unknown | partial |
| 2019-09-23 CC-MAIN-2019-39 | www.quora.com | ok view | partial | partial | unknown | partial | partial | unknown | partial |
| 2018-09-24 CC-MAIN-2018-39 | www.quora.com | ok view | partial | partial | unknown | partial | partial | unknown | partial |
| 2017-09-25 CC-MAIN-2017-39 | www.quora.com | ok view | partial | partial | unknown | partial | partial | unknown | partial |
| 2017-07-24 CC-MAIN-2017-30 | www.quora.com | ok view | partial | partial | unknown | partial | partial | unknown | partial |
| 2017-04-24 CC-MAIN-2017-17 | www.quora.com | ok view | partial | partial | unknown | partial | partial | unknown | partial |
| 2017-01-23 CC-MAIN-2017-04 | www.quora.com | ok view | partial | partial | unknown | partial | partial | unknown | partial |
| 2016-10-03 CC-MAIN-2016-40 | www.quora.com | ok view | partial | partial | unknown | partial | partial | unknown | partial |
| 2016-09-05 CC-MAIN-2016-36 | quora.com | ok view | partial | partial | unknown | partial | partial | unknown | partial |
Evidence
Every daily observation of quora.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/quora.com