redditstatic.com: what it tells AI crawlers

On 27 October 2026, redditstatic.com's robots.txt fully blocked GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Google-Extended, PerplexityBot 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://www.redditstatic.com/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-26 · sha256 29b34b8c1e32697b… · view as recorded

The * group

blocks applies to every agent without its own group

Per AI bot, 2026-10-27

Other signals

robots.txt as recorded sha256 dc91922930126d9e…

User-Agent: *
Disallow: /
Allow: /desktop2x/img/favicon/*
Allow: /favicon.ico
Allow: /icon.png
Allow: /new-icon.png
Allow: /desktop2x/img/social-sharing/*
Allow: /talk/assets/social-sharing/*

User-agent: Googlebot
User-agent: AdsBot-Google
User-agent: AdsBot-Google-Mobile
User-agent: AdsBot-Google-Mobile-Apps
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
User-agent: Googlebot-Video
User-agent: Applebot
User-agent: ClarityBot
Disallow:

User-agent: bingbot
User-agent: MSNBot-Media
Allow: /

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 redditstatic.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/redditstatic.com