ring.com: what it tells AI crawlers

On 28 October 2026, ring.com's robots.txt allowed all of GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Google-Extended, PerplexityBot and CCBot; it also published llms.txt.

Last verified 2026-10-29 03:59 UTC (daily run of 2026-10-28). Proof for that day.

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robots.txt

ok (HTTP 200) · https://ring.com/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-26 · sha256 9e84de2b85d734c4… · view as recorded

The * group

allows applies to every agent without its own group

Per AI bot, 2026-10-28

Other signals

llms.txt: "Ring", 7,398 bytes, 30 links.

robots.txt as recorded sha256 6e3a3fbcae7c2ae4…

# See http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/norobots.html for documentation on how to use the robots.txt file
User-agent: *
Disallow: /a/downloads/-/*
Disallow: /account
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /checkout
Disallow: /cart
Disallow: /carts
Disallow: /orders
Disallow: /countries
Disallow: /states
Disallow: /line_items
Disallow: /password_resets
Disallow: /share
Disallow: /*design_theme_id*
Disallow: /*preview_theme_id*
Disallow: /*preview_script_id*
Disallow: /policies/
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /*?filters=*
Disallow: /kudos
Disallow: /user-id/
Disallow: /user*
Disallow: /users
Disallow: /?utm*
Disallow: /win-a-ring

Sitemap: https://ring.com/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 ring.com is a leaf in that day's Merkle tree. Proof of the robots.txt line for 2026-10-28: audit path (JSON), day root and OpenTimestamps proof (complete (bitcoin block 973640)).

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