sourceforge.net: what it tells AI crawlers

On 27 October 2026, sourceforge.net's robots.txt allowed all of GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Google-Extended, PerplexityBot and CCBot; it also published llms.txt.

Last verified 2026-10-28 03:59 UTC (daily run of 2026-10-27). Proof for that day.

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robots.txt

ok (HTTP 200) · https://sourceforge.net/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-26 · sha256 afd526e8de7f2ca5… · view as recorded

The * group

allows applies to every agent without its own group

Per AI bot, 2026-10-27

Other signals

llms.txt: "SourceForge", 1,000,000 bytes, 128 links.

robots.txt as recorded sha256 e5a05832b1c7010c…

# robots.txt file for http://sourceforge.net and https://sourceforge.net
# please contact staff@sourceforge.net with questions or concerns

User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
Disallow: /p/*/code/*

User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /p/*/code/*
Crawl-delay: 1

User-agent: BingBot
Disallow: /p/*/code/*
Crawl-delay: 0

User-agent: Slurp
Disallow: /p/*/code/*
Crawl-delay: 1

User-agent: 008
Disallow: /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /p/*/code/*
Disallow: /projects/*/files/*/stats/timeline
Disallow: /projects/*/files/*/stats/map
Disallow: /projects/*/files/*/stats/os
Crawl-delay: 1

Sitemap: https://sourceforge.net/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://sourceforge.net/allura_sitemap/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://sourceforge.net/directory_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 sourceforge.net 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/sourceforge.net