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 9e84de2b85d734c4…

# Ring.com Robots.txt
# Optimized for SEO and AI Engine Optimization (AEO)

# --- AI Crawlers ---
# Explicitly allowed. These bots don't spider query param variations,
# so filter/utm blocks are unnecessary. Only private paths are restricted.
# Ring Help support search is also excluded below.

User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: Google-Extended
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: Anthropic-ai
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
User-agent: Cohere-ai
Allow: /
Disallow: /account
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /checkout
Disallow: /cart
Disallow: /users
Disallow: /user-id/
Disallow: /signin
Disallow: /share
# Disable crawler access to Ring Help support search. Individual support article
# pages remain crawlable.
Disallow: /support/articles$
Disallow: /support/articles?*
Disallow: /*/support/articles$
Disallow: /*/support/articles?*
Disallow: /support/_next/data/*/articles.json$
Disallow: /support/_next/data/*/articles.json?*
Disallow: /*/support/_next/data/*/articles.json$
Disallow: /*/support/_next/data/*/articles.json?*

# --- Standard crawlers ---
# Everything is allowed unless explicitly blocked below.
# Filter and UTM params are blocked to prevent duplicate content indexing.

User-agent: *
Disallow: /account
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /checkout
Disallow: /cart
Disallow: /share
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /*?filters=*
Disallow: /user-id/
Disallow: /users
Disallow: /?utm*
Disallow: /419/es
Disallow: /signin/callback
# Disable crawler access to Ring Help support search. Individual support article
# pages remain crawlable.
Disallow: /support/articles$
Disallow: /support/articles?*
Disallow: /*/support/articles$
Disallow: /*/support/articles?*
Disallow: /support/_next/data/*/articles.json$
Disallow: /support/_next/data/*/articles.json?*
Disallow: /*/support/_next/data/*/articles.json$
Disallow: /*/support/_next/data/*/articles.json?*

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