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.
- Panel
- top 10k (Tranco)
- robots.txt
- ok (HTTP 200) · https://shopee.ph/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-27 · sha256c380041a0378f2d3…· 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 | allows | through the * 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 | allows | through the * group |
| Perplexity-User | allows | through the * group |
| Googlebot | allows | named in its own group |
| Google-Extended | allows | through the * group |
| Applebot-Extended | allows | through the * group |
| CCBot | allows | through the * group |
| Bytespider | allows | through the * group |
| Meta-ExternalAgent | allows | through the * group |
| Amazonbot | allows | through the * group |
Other signals
| Publishes /llms.txt | no |
| 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 |
robots.txt as recorded sha256 c380041a0378f2d3…
User-Agent:Googlebot User-Agent:Googlebot-Mobile 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 Disallow: /search*hashtag= Disallow: /search?shop= Disallow: /buyer/*/rating/ Disallow: *-cat.*?category= Disallow: /shop/*/search Disallow: /shop/*/details Disallow: /search/? Disallow: /search?brands= Disallow: /search?originalCategoryId= Disallow: /addon-deal-selection/ Disallow: /bundle-deal/ Disallow: *?sp_atk= Disallow: /search_user Disallow: /search?keyword=*.com Disallow: /blog/?s= Disallow: *utm_source Disallow: /search*.com Disallow: /search?keyword=등산동호회섹스 Disallow: /search?keyword=메이크업섹스 Disallow: /search?keyword=슬롯 먹튀사이트 Disallow: /search?keyword=유부섹스 Disallow: /search?keyword=음담패설 Disallow: /search?keyword=잔인한섹스 Disallow: /search?keyword=정지야동 Disallow: /search?keyword=하이힐섹스 Disallow: /search?keyword=후드자위 Disallow: /api/v4/shop/rcmd_items Disallow: /api/v4/recommend/* Disallow: /api/v4/homepage/get_daily_discover 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 Sitemap: https://sitemap.shopee.ph/sitemap.search-1.xml.gz Sitemap: https://sitemap.shopee.ph/sitemap.image.items.typeB2.xml Sitemap: https://sitemap.shopee.ph/sitemap.image.items.typeB1.xml Sitemap: https://sitemap.shopee.ph/sitemap.image.items.typeA2.xml Sitemap: https://sitemap.shopee.ph/sitemap.image.items.typeA1.xml Sitemap: https://sitemap.shopee.ph/sitemap.items.typeC2.xml Sitemap: https://sitemap.shopee.ph/sitemap.items.typeC1.xml Sitemap: https://sitemap.shopee.ph/sitemap.items.typeB2.xml Sitemap: https://sitemap.shopee.ph/sitemap.items.typeB1.xml Sitemap: https://sitemap.shopee.ph/sitemap.items.typeA2.xml Sitemap: https://sitemap.shopee.ph/sitemap.items.typeA1.xml
robots.txt versions
| From | Through | State | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-27 | 2026-10-27 | ok 200 | c380041a0378 | diff with previous |
| 2026-10-26 | 2026-10-26 | ok 200 | 88c288606bff |
Timeline of changes
| Date | What changed |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-27 | robots.txt changed |
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 | shopee.ph | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2025-09-15 CC-MAIN-2025-38 | shopee.ph | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2024-09-16 CC-MAIN-2024-38 | shopee.ph | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2023-10-02 CC-MAIN-2023-40 | shopee.ph | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2022-10-03 CC-MAIN-2022-40 | shopee.ph | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2021-09-27 CC-MAIN-2021-39 | shopee.ph | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2020-09-28 CC-MAIN-2020-40 | shopee.ph | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2019-09-23 CC-MAIN-2019-39 | shopee.ph | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2018-09-24 CC-MAIN-2018-39 | shopee.ph | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-09-25 CC-MAIN-2017-39 | shopee.ph | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-07-24 CC-MAIN-2017-30 | shopee.ph | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-04-24 CC-MAIN-2017-17 | shopee.ph | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-01-23 CC-MAIN-2017-04 | shopee.ph | ok view | blocks | blocks | unknown | blocks | blocks | unknown | blocks |
| 2016-09-05 CC-MAIN-2016-36 | shopee.ph | ok view | blocks | blocks | unknown | blocks | blocks | unknown | blocks |
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