spiegel.de: what it tells AI crawlers

On 27 October 2026, spiegel.de's robots.txt fully blocked GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot 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://www.spiegel.de/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-26 · sha256 95f0a83e7d047a5a… · view as recorded

The * group

allows applies to every agent without its own group

Per AI bot, 2026-10-27

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robots.txt as recorded sha256 95f0a83e7d047a5a…

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /*CR-Dokumentation.pdf$

User-agent: emetriqContextualBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; OGDWCtxCrawler)
Allow: /

User-agent: AmazonAdBot
Allow: /

# TLP-6507: Testweise Freischaltung der OpenAI-Suchcrawler fuer ausgewaehlte Bereiche
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /ausland/
Allow: /partnerschaft/
Allow: /gesundheit/
Allow: /familie/
Allow: /reise/
Allow: /psychologie/
Allow: /stil/
Allow: /tests/
Disallow: /

# TLP-6507: Testweise Freischaltung der OpenAI-Suchcrawler fuer ausgewaehlte Bereiche
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /ausland/
Allow: /partnerschaft/
Allow: /gesundheit/
Allow: /familie/
Allow: /reise/
Allow: /psychologie/
Allow: /stil/
Allow: /tests/
Disallow: /

# TLP-7042: Testweise Freischaltung Claude-Web fuer ausgewaehlte Bereiche
User-agent: Claude-Web
Allow: /ausland/
Allow: /partnerschaft/
Allow: /gesundheit/
Allow: /familie/
Allow: /reise/
Allow: /psychologie/
Allow: /stil/
Allow: /tests/
Disallow: /

# TLP-7042: Testweise Freischaltung Claude-SearchBot fuer ausgewaehlte Bereiche
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Allow: /ausland/
Allow: /partnerschaft/
Allow: /gesundheit/
Allow: /familie/
Allow: /reise/
Allow: /psychologie/
Allow: /stil/
Allow: /tests/
Disallow: /

# TLP-7042: Testweise Freischaltung Claude-User fuer ausgewaehlte Bereiche
User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /ausland/
Allow: /partnerschaft/
Allow: /gesundheit/
Allow: /familie/
Allow: /reise/
Allow: /psychologie/
Allow: /stil/
Allow: /tests/
Disallow: /

# ==========================================
# KI-CRAWLER & KI-TRAINING (SPERRE)
# ==========================================
User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: CloudVertexBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: cohere-ai
Disallow: /
User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler
Disallow: /
User-agent: cohere-training-data-collector
Disallow: /
User-agent: DeepSeekBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: DeepSeek
Disallow: /
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Disallow: /
User-agent: FacebookBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /
User-agent: MistralAI-User
Disallow: /
User-agent: AI2Bot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Kangaroo Bot
Disallow: /
User-agent: PanguBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: PetalBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Devin
Disallow: /
User-agent: bigsur.ai
Disallow: /
User-agent: LinerBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: YouBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: YouBot-Search
Disallow: /
User-agent: iaskspider
Disallow: /
User-agent: YoudaoBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: DeepL-Translate
Disallow: /
User-agent: DeepL-Bot
Disallow: /

# ==========================================
# SEO-CRAWLER (SPERRE)
# ==========================================
User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: AhrefsSiteAudit
Disallow: /
User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: SemrushBot-SA
Disallow: /
User-agent: SemrushBot-BA
Disallow: /
User-agent: SemrushBot-SI
Disallow: /
User-agent: SemrushBot-SWA
Disallow: /
User-agent: SiteAuditBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: SplitSignalBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: xovi
Disallow: /
User-agent: XoviBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Seobility
Disallow: /
User-agent: SeobilityBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: RyteBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: SEOkicks
Disallow: /
User-agent: SEOkicks-Robot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Searchmetrics
Disallow: /
User-agent: SearchmetricsBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: audisto
Disallow: /
User-agent: audisto-essential
Disallow: /
User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /
User-agent: dotbot
Disallow: /
User-agent: rogerbot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Ezooms
Disallow: /
User-agent: barkrowler
Disallow: /
User-agent: serpstatbot
Disallow: /
User-agent: BLEXBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: DataForSeoBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: MegaIndex
Disallow: /
User-agent: lumar
Disallow: /
User-agent: deepcrawl
Disallow: /
User-agent: oncrawl
Disallow: /
User-agent: sitebulb
Disallow: /
User-agent: botify
Disallow: /
User-agent: Siteimprove
Disallow: /
User-agent: Siteimprove Crawl
Disallow: /
User-agent: MozDotNet
Disallow: /
User-agent: Cocolyzebot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Raven
Disallow: /

# ==========================================
# MEDIENBEOBACHTUNG, AGGREGATOREN & SCRAPER
# ==========================================
User-agent: Meltwater
Disallow: /
User-agent: NewsNow
Disallow: /
User-agent: Webzio-Extended
Disallow: /
User-agent: magpie-crawler
Disallow: /
User-agent: omgili
Disallow: /
User-agent: omgilibot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Baiduspider
Disallow: /
User-agent: Yeti
Disallow: /
User-agent: sentibot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /
User-agent: SirdataBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: LCC
Disallow: /
User-agent: TurnitinBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: ImagesiftBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Timpibot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Diffbot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Landau-Media-Spider
Disallow: /


# ==========================================
# ARCHIV-CRAWLER (SPERRE)
# ==========================================
User-agent: archive.org_bot
Disallow: /
User-agent: WaybackSavePage
Disallow: /
User-agent: heritrix
Disallow: /
User-agent: Special_Archiver
Disallow: /
User-agent: ia_archiver-web.archive.org
Disallow: /
User-agent: ia_archiver2
Disallow: /
User-agent: ia_archiver
Disallow: /

# ==========================================
# HISTORISCHE BOTS & MASSEN-DOWNLOADER
# ==========================================
User-agent: Bloodhound
Disallow: /
User-agent: cydralspider
Disallow: /
User-agent: downloadexpress
Disallow: /
User-agent: gammaSpider
Disallow: /
User-agent: ObjectsSearch
Disallow: /
User-agent: Pimptrain
Disallow: /
User-agent: wapspider
Disallow: /
User-agent: WebZinger
Disallow: /
User-agent: Fasterfox
Disallow: /

# ==========================================
# SCRAPING FRAMEWORKS & UTILITIES
# ==========================================
User-agent: Scrapy
Disallow: /
User-agent: HTTPBannerDetection
Disallow: /
User-agent: Wget
Disallow: /

# Sitemaps
Sitemap: https://www.spiegel.de/sitemaps/news-de.xml
Sitemap: https://www.spiegel.de/sitemaps/videos/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.spiegel.de/plus/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.spiegel.de/sitemap.xml

# Legal notice: spiegel.de expressly reserves the right to use its content for commercial text and data mining (§ 44b Urheberrechtsgesetz).
# The use of robots or other automated means to access spiegel.de or collect or mine data without the express permission of spiegel.de is strictly prohibited.
# spiegel.de may, in its discretion, permit certain automated access to certain spiegel.de pages,
# If you would like to apply for permission to crawl spiegel.de, collect or use data, please email syndication@spiegel.de

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 spiegel.de 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/spiegel.de