reuters.com: what it tells AI crawlers

On 27 October 2026, reuters.com's robots.txt fully blocked GPTBot, 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.reuters.com/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-26 · sha256 a6610234e4c1c34b… · 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 a6610234e4c1c34b…

# NOTICE: Collection of content, data and/or information from reuters.com through
# automated means is prohibited unless you have prior written consent from Reuters 
# and may only be conducted for the purposes explicitly described in such permission. 
#
# The terms and conditions for reuters.com may be found at 
# https://www.reuters.com/info-pages/terms-of-use/ 
#
# If you would like to seek permission to license the content and/or other materials 
# of Reuters, please contact https://reutersagency.com/contact-us/enquire/

User-agent: AASA-Bot
User-agent: ADmantX
User-agent: AdmiralBot
User-agent: AdsBot-Google
User-agent: AdsBot-Google-Mobile
User-agent: AmazonAdBot
User-agent: Amzn-User
User-agent: Applebot
User-agent: AppleNewsBot
User-agent: Bingbot
User-agent: BingPreview
User-agent: BrightEdge
User-agent: BrightEdgeOnCrawl
User-agent: CensysInspect
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: Cision
User-agent: Clickagy
User-agent: Concert
User-agent: ContextualBot
User-agent: CriteoBot
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User-agent: Discordbot
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User-agent: ElevenlabsBot
User-agent: Embedly 
User-agent: facebookexternalhit
User-agent: Googlebot
User-agent: Googlebot Smartphone
User-agent: Googlebot-News
User-agent: Google-Display-Ads-Bot
User-agent: Google-InspectionTool
User-agent: GoogleOther
User-agent: Google-Read-Aloud
User-agent: Google-Safety
User-agent: Google-Site-Verification
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User-agent: GumGumBot
User-agent: ias_crawler
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User-agent: leiki
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User-agent: LinkTiger
User-agent: Mantisbot
User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
User-agent: meta-externalads
User-agent: meta-webindexer
User-agent: MicrosoftPreview
User-agent: MJ12bot 
User-agent: Moreover
User-agent: msnbot 
User-agent: NFBNewslineRobot
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-agent: Oncrawl
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User-agent: Opoint
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User-agent: outbrain 
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User-agent: Reuters SEO Screaming Frog Spider 007
User-agent: Reuters-NAUWI
User-agent: Scom-Crawler-For-Reuters
User-agent: SinceraSyntheticUser
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User-agent: SmartologyBot
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User-agent: Storebot-Google
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User-agent: Verity
User-agent: vuln_scan_by_trustedsite_com_halo_security
User-agent: WISEbot
User-agent: Xenu Link Sleuth
User-agent: Yahoo Link Preview
User-agent: Yahoo! JAPAN
User-agent: YahooMailProxy
Disallow: /finance/stocks/option
Disallow: /finance/stocks/financialHighlights
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /site-search/
Disallow: /beta
Disallow: /designtech
Disallow: /featured-optimize
Disallow: /energy-test
Disallow: /article/beta
Disallow: /sponsored/previewcampaign
Disallow: /sponsored/previewarticle
Disallow: /test/
Disallow: /news/archive/commentary
Disallow: /brandfeatures/venture-capital
Disallow: /assets/siteindex
Disallow: /article/api/
Disallow: /practical-law-the-journal/search/
Disallow: /pf/api/
Disallow: /fr/
Disallow: /it/
Disallow: /es/
Disallow: /pt/
Disallow: /de/
Disallow: /latam/
Disallow: /account/subscribe/payment
Disallow: /*/site-search/

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /

# Block all other bots
User-agent: *
Allow: /plus/
Disallow: /

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SITEMAP: https://www.reuters.com/graphics/sitemap.xml
SITEMAP: https://www.reuters.com/arc/outboundfeeds/sitemap-index/pictures/?outputType=xml
SITEMAP: https://www.reuters.com/static/video-sitemap/jp/sitemap_video_index.xml
SITEMAP: https://www.reuters.com/static/video-sitemap/us/sitemap_video_index.xml
SITEMAP: https://www.reuters.com/arc/outboundfeeds/topic-sitemap/?outputType=xml
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SITEMAP: https://www.reuters.com/service/archive-sitemap/sitemap.xml

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 reuters.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/reuters.com