shopee.ph: what it tells AI crawlers

On 27 October 2026, shopee.ph's robots.txt allowed all of 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://shopee.ph/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-27 · sha256 c380041a0378f2d3… · view as recorded

The * group

allows applies to every agent without its own group

Per AI bot, 2026-10-27

Other signals

robots.txt as recorded sha256 51c1736b1f7ab94d…

User-Agent:Googlebot
User-Agent:Bingbot
Crawl-delay:0.1
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /buyer/login/otp
Disallow: /user/
Disallow: /me/
Disallow: /order/
Disallow: /daily_discover/
Disallow: /mall/just-for-you/
Disallow: /mall/*-cat.
Disallow: /from_same_shop/
Disallow: /you_may_also_like/
Disallow: *-i.*/similar?from=flash_sale
Disallow: /find_similar_products/
Disallow: /top_products
Disallow: /search*searchPrefill
Disallow: /index.html

User-Agent:*
Crawl-delay:1
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /buyer/login/otp
Disallow: /user/
Disallow: /me/
Disallow: /order/
Disallow: /daily_discover/
Disallow: /mall/just-for-you/
Disallow: /mall/*-cat.
Disallow: /from_same_shop/
Disallow: /you_may_also_like/
Disallow: *-i.*/similar
Disallow: /find_similar_products/
Disallow: /top_products
Disallow: /search*searchPrefill
Disallow: /index.html

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 shopee.ph 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/shopee.ph