repubblica.it: what it tells AI crawlers
On 27 October 2026, repubblica.it's robots.txt fully blocked GPTBot, Google-Extended, PerplexityBot and CCBot; it also published llms.txt.
Last verified 2026-10-28 03:59 UTC (daily run of 2026-10-27). Proof for that day.
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- top 1k (Tranco)
- robots.txt
- ok (HTTP 200) · https://www.repubblica.it/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-26 · sha2562c064ff50d1ae310…· view as recorded - The * group
- allows 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 | allows | through the * group |
| ChatGPT-User | allows | through the * group |
| ClaudeBot | allows | through the * group |
| Claude-SearchBot | allows | through the * group |
| Claude-User | allows | through the * group |
| PerplexityBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Perplexity-User | allows | through the * group |
| Googlebot | allows | through the * group |
| Google-Extended | blocks | named in its own group |
| Applebot-Extended | blocks | named in its own group |
| CCBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Bytespider | blocks | named in its own group |
| Meta-ExternalAgent | allows | through the * group |
| Amazonbot | allows | named in its own group |
| anthropic-ai | blocks | named in its own group |
| Applebot | blocks | named in its own group |
| cohere-ai | blocks | named in its own group |
| Diffbot | blocks | named in its own group |
| DuckAssistBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| ExaBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| FacebookBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| FriendlyCrawler | blocks | named in its own group |
| ImagesiftBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| meta-externalfetcher | blocks | named in its own group |
| omgilibot | blocks | named in its own group |
| PanguBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| PetalBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Scrapy | blocks | named in its own group |
| Timpibot | blocks | named in its own group |
| YouBot | blocks | named in its own group |
Other signals
| Publishes /llms.txt | yes |
| Publishes /ai.txt | no |
| Publishes /.well-known/tdmrep.json | no |
| Reserves TDM rights (TDMRep file, header or meta) | no |
| Declares Content Signals (robots.txt or header) | no |
| Says ai-train=no in a Content Signal | no |
| Points to an RSL licence (robots.txt License line or Link header) | no |
| Answers with an x402 payment offer (lower bound: only the homepage is probed) | no |
| Answers HTTP 402 Payment Required (lower bound: only the homepage is probed) | no |
| Sends noai / noimageai directives | no |
| Refused our fetcher (403 / challenge) | no |
llms.txt: "la Repubblica - Indice dei contenuti", 2,331 bytes, 38 links.
robots.txt as recorded sha256 2c064ff50d1ae310…
User-agent: * Allow: / Disallow: /ultimora/24ore/nazionale/news-dettaglio/3688417 Disallow: /ultimora/24ore/AUTO-IN-CAMBIO-DI-DROGA-13-ARRESTI-DELLA-POLIZIA-DI-PESCARA-(2)/news-dettaglio/3746479 Disallow: /sport/ciclismo/2023/10/24/news/doping_ciclismo_virtuale_azzurro_zanasca_rischia_una_lunga_squalifica-418660589/ Disallow: /spettacoli/people/2023/09/07/news/kanye_west_e_bianca_censori_in_italia_la_lunga_estate_calda_degli_scandali-413629176/< Disallow: /speciale/ Disallow: /social/sites/repubblica/d/boxes/shares/ Disallow: /servizi/ Disallow: /ricerca/ Disallow: /politica/2017/01/19/news/il_fratello_del_ministro_alfano_rischia_il_posto_e_costera_all_erario_mezzo_milione_di_euro[1]156371739/ Disallow: /persone/ Disallow: /online/cronaca/veronaecstasy/bologna/bologna.html Disallow: /online/ Disallow: /news/ired/ultimora/cronaca/rep_cronaca_n_3487677.html Disallow: /java Disallow: /ipad/ Disallow: /interstitial/ Disallow: /indici/ Disallow: /il-gusto/2022/04/27/news/frode_fiscale_bancarotta_fraudolenta_arrestato_giovanni_maspero_ristorante_i_tigli_in_theoria-347110162/ Disallow: /embed/* Disallow: /economia/miojob/ Disallow: /economia/2013/01/31/news/mps_verso_sequestro_conservativo- 51615470/ Disallow: /dal-quotidiano/ Disallow: /corporate/privacy/index_static.html? Disallow: /cgi-bin/back.cgi Disallow: /blaize/datalayer Disallow: /audio/i-daily-di-repubblica Disallow: /audio-test-app Disallow: /api/checkpw-v1/premium/amp/pingback* Disallow: /api/* Disallow: /annunci/ Disallow: /2010/ Disallow: /2009/ Disallow: /2008/ Disallow: /2007/ Disallow: /2006/05/gallerie/politica/farabutti-foto-lettori-95/esterne191030071909103240_big.jpg Disallow: /2006/05/gallerie/politica/farabutti-foto-lettori-95/esterne191030071909103240.jpg Disallow: /2006/ Disallow: /2005/ Disallow: /2004/ Disallow: /2003/ Disallow: /coccodrilli/ Disallow: /swf Disallow: /serietv/schede/cerca/?query= Disallow: /online3 Disallow: /mobile/ Disallow: /ztest/ Disallow: /dossier/sapori/guide-espresso* Disallow: /dossier/motori* Disallow: /topics/*?p= Disallow: /mobile-rep/ Disallow: /tv/ Disallow: /static/__sdemo__/ Disallow: /quotidiano # Sitemap: https://www.repubblica.it/sitemap-n.xml # Sitemap: https://video.repubblica.it/sitemap-v-day.xml Sitemap: https://video.repubblica.it/sitemap-v.xml Sitemap: https://www.repubblica.it/sitemap-italian-tech-n.xml Sitemap: https://www.repubblica.it/sitemap-il-gusto-n.xml Sitemap: https://www.repubblica.it/sitemap-salute-n.xml Sitemap: https://www.repubblica.it/sitemap-green-and-blue-n.xml # Sitemap: https://www.repubblica.it/sitemap-dirette-sport-n.xml # Sitemap: https://www.repubblica.it/sitemap.xml Sitemap: https://www.repubblica.it/sitemap-italian-tech.xml Sitemap: https://www.repubblica.it/sitemap-il-gusto.xml Sitemap: https://www.repubblica.it/sitemap-salute.xml Sitemap: https://www.repubblica.it/sitemap-green-and-blue.xml User-agent: GPTBot Disallow: / User-agent: Google-Extended Disallow: / User-agent: CCBot Disallow: / User-agent: anthropic-ai Disallow: / User-agent: Omgilibot Disallow: / User-agent: FacebookBot Disallow: / User-agent: cohere-ai Disallow: / User-agent: PetalBot Disallow: / User-agent: Yandex Disallow: / User-agent: PerplexityBot Disallow: / User-agent: Amazonbot Allow: / User-agent: AhrefsBot Disallow: / User-agent: archive.org_bot Disallow: / User-agent: ArchiveBot Disallow: / User-agent: Arquivo-web-crawler Disallow: / User-agent: AwarioRssBot Disallow: / User-agent: AwarioSmartBot Disallow: / User-agent: BacklinkCrawler Disallow: / User-agent: BIXOCRAWLER Disallow: / User-agent: BLEXBot Disallow: / User-agent: Bytespider Disallow: / User-agent: Cliqzbot Disallow: / User-agent: ConveraCrawler Disallow: / User-agent: crawler4j Disallow: / User-agent: CrystalSemanticsBot Disallow: / User-agent: DataForSeoBot Disallow: / User-agent: Diffbot Disallow: / User-agent: discobot Disallow: / User-agent: discoverybot Disallow: / User-agent: dloader(NaverRobot) Disallow: / User-agent: dotbot Disallow: / User-agent: Download Ninja Disallow: / User-agent: DuckAssistBot Disallow: / User-agent: europarchive.org Disallow: / User-agent: Exabot Disallow: / User-agent: ExtractorPro Disallow: / User-agent: Fetch Disallow: / User-agent: Flamingo_SearchEngine Disallow: / User-agent: FriendlyCrawler Disallow: / User-agent: Gigabot Disallow: / User-agent: GumGum Bot Disallow: / User-agent: ia_archiver Disallow: / User-agent: ia_archiver-web.archive.org Disallow: / User-agent: ImagesiftBot Disallow: / User-agent: IstellaBot Disallow: / User-agent: Jetbot Disallow: / User-agent: JikeSpider Disallow: / User-agent: Jyxobot Disallow: / User-agent: k2spider Disallow: / User-agent: Kangaroo Bot Disallow: / User-agent: kbcrawl Disallow: / User-agent: LexxeBot/1.0 Disallow: / User-agent: LinkArchiver Disallow: / User-agent: LinkextractorPro Disallow: / User-agent: Livelapbot Disallow: / User-agent: magpie-crawler Disallow: / User-agent: meta-externalfetcher Disallow: / User-agent: MJ12bot Disallow: / User-agent: Moreoverbot Disallow: / User-agent: MSIECrawler Disallow: / User-agent: nabot Disallow: / User-agent: NaverBot Disallow: / User-agent: NerdByNature.Bot Disallow: / User-agent: netEstate NE Crawler Disallow: / User-agent: nNetSeer crawler Disallow: / User-agent: NextGenSearchBot Disallow: / User-agent: Nicecrawler Disallow: / User-agent: NPBot Disallow: / User-agent: nutch Disallow: / User-agent: Openbot Disallow: / User-agent: PanguBot Disallow: / User-agent: peer39_crawler Disallow: / User-agent: peer39_crawler/1.0 Disallow: / User-agent: PiplBot Disallow: / User-agent: Pixray-Seeker Disallow: / User-agent: Primalbot Disallow: / User-agent: psbot Disallow: / User-agent: QuerySeekerSpider Disallow: / User-agent: Quora-Bot Disallow: / User-agent: rogerbot Disallow: / User-agent: Scrapy Disallow: / User-agent: searchpreview Disallow: / User-agent: SemrushBot Disallow: / User-agent: SEOENGBot Disallow: / User-agent: SEOkicks-Robot Disallow: / User-agent: SiteBot Disallow: / User-agent: SiteBot/0.1 Disallow: / User-agent: Slurp Disallow: / User-agent: Sosospider Disallow: / User-agent: spbot Disallow: / User-agent: Timpibot Disallow: / User-agent: trendictionbot Disallow: / User-agent: trovitBot Disallow: / User-agent: True_Robot Disallow: / User-agent: TurnitinBot Disallow: / User-agent: UbiCrawler Disallow: / User-agent: uMBot-LN Disallow: / User-agent: URL_Spider_Pro Disallow: / User-agent: verticalsearch Disallow: / User-agent: WBSearchBot Disallow: / User-agent: web-archive-net.com.bot Disallow: / User-agent: WeSEE:Search Disallow: / User-agent: Wotbot Disallow: / User-agent: YouBot Disallow: / User-agent: Zealbot Disallow: / User-agent: AppleBot Disallow: / User-agent: Applebot-Extended Disallow: /
robots.txt versions
| From | Through | State | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-26 | 2026-10-28 | ok 200 | 2c064ff50d1a |
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.repubblica.it | ok view | blocks | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | blocks |
| 2025-09-15 CC-MAIN-2025-38 | www.repubblica.it | ok view | blocks | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | blocks |
| 2024-09-16 CC-MAIN-2024-38 | www.repubblica.it | ok view | blocks | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2023-10-02 CC-MAIN-2023-40 | www2.repubblica.it | ok view | blocks | blocks | unknown | blocks | blocks | unknown | blocks |
| 2022-10-03 CC-MAIN-2022-40 | www.repubblica.it | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2021-09-27 CC-MAIN-2021-39 | repubblica.it | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2020-09-28 CC-MAIN-2020-40 | www.repubblica.it | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2019-09-23 CC-MAIN-2019-39 | www.repubblica.it | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2018-09-24 CC-MAIN-2018-39 | www.repubblica.it | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2018-01-29 CC-MAIN-2018-05 | www.repubblica.it | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-10-23 CC-MAIN-2017-43 | www.repubblica.it | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-09-25 CC-MAIN-2017-39 | www.repubblica.it | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-07-24 CC-MAIN-2017-30 | www.repubblica.it | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-04-24 CC-MAIN-2017-17 | repubblica.it | soft404 | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown |
| 2017-01-23 CC-MAIN-2017-04 | repubblica.it | soft404 | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown |
| 2016-10-03 CC-MAIN-2016-40 | www.repubblica.it | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2016-09-05 CC-MAIN-2016-36 | www.repubblica.it | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
Evidence
Every daily observation of repubblica.it 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/repubblica.it