t-online.de: what it tells AI crawlers
On 27 October 2026, t-online.de's robots.txt fully blocked GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and CCBot.
Last verified 2026-10-28 03:59 UTC (daily run of 2026-10-27). Proof for that day.
- Panel
- top 1k (Tranco)
- robots.txt
- ok (HTTP 200) · https://www.t-online.de/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-26 · sha256aefcf62006193c76…· 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 | blocks | named in its own group |
| OAI-SearchBot | allows | through the * group |
| ChatGPT-User | allows | through the * group |
| ClaudeBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Claude-SearchBot | allows | through the * group |
| Claude-User | allows | through the * group |
| PerplexityBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Perplexity-User | allows | through the * group |
| Googlebot | allows | through the * group |
| Google-Extended | allows | named in its own group |
| Applebot-Extended | blocks | named in its own group |
| CCBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Bytespider | blocks | named in its own group |
| Meta-ExternalAgent | blocks | named in its own 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 aebd0e765f5da64a…
User-agent: Mediapartners-Google Disallow: User-agent: * Disallow: /?artid Disallow: /mytest/ Disallow: /sp_ Disallow: /studiopreview_ Disallow: /vid_1/ Disallow: /wirtschaft/boerse/*/chart_ Disallow: /finanzen/boerse/*/chart_ Disallow: /*,ei= Disallow: /*,linkId= Disallow: /*,pt=pictureEnlarge Disallow: /*,pt=print Disallow: /*,pt=self Disallow: /*,tid=print Disallow: /*,vv=P5 Disallow: /*,vv=enlarge Disallow: /*/00-startseite/ Disallow: /*/ar- Disallow: /*/archiv/fs- Disallow: /*/artikel/as Disallow: /*/artikelshows/as- Disallow: /*/editorid_ Disallow: /*/fp- Disallow: /*/fotoshows/show- Disallow: /*/fs- Disallow: /*/kid_ Disallow: /*/preisvergleich/ Disallow: /*/pt_iframe/ Disallow: /*/pt_pictureEnlarge/ Disallow: /*/pt_pictureenlarge/ Disallow: /*/pt_self/ Disallow: /*/sd_desc/ Disallow: /*/sh- Disallow: /*/shows/archiv- Disallow: /*/shows/artikel/ Disallow: /*/shows/as- Disallow: /*/shows/ash- Disallow: /*/shows/fs- Disallow: /*/shows/sh- Disallow: /*/stockexchangeid_ Disallow: /*/tid_google_snippet/ Disallow: /*/tid_lightbox/ Disallow: /*/tid_pdf_o/ Disallow: /*/tid_popup/ Disallow: /*/tid_print/ Disallow: /*/tid_single_lightbox/ Disallow: /*/tid_xml_f_L20_TopicList/ Disallow: /*/tid_xml_f_page/ Disallow: /*/tid_xml_mcp_page/ Disallow: /*/tid_xml_page/ Disallow: /*?wetter- Disallow: /*/2006/ Disallow: /*/2007/ Disallow: /*/2008/ Disallow: /*/2009/ Disallow: /*/2010/ Disallow: /*/2011/ Disallow: /*/2012/ Disallow: /*/2013/ Disallow: /*/2014/ Disallow: /*/2015/ Disallow: /*/2016/ Disallow: /*/2017/ Sitemap: http://www.t-online.de/sitemap-news-0.xml.gz Sitemap: http://www.t-online.de/auto/sitemap-index0.xml Sitemap: http://www.t-online.de/computer/sitemap-index0.xml Sitemap: http://www.t-online.de/digital/sitemap-index0.xml Sitemap: http://www.t-online.de/finanzen/sitemap-index0.xml Sitemap: http://www.t-online.de/gesundheit/sitemap-index0.xml Sitemap: http://www.t-online.de/handy/sitemap-index0.xml Sitemap: http://www.t-online.de/heim-garten/sitemap-index0.xml Sitemap: http://www.t-online.de/leben/sitemap-index0.xml Sitemap: http://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/sitemap-index0.xml Sitemap: http://www.t-online.de/ratgeber/sitemap-index0.xml Sitemap: http://www.t-online.de/spiele/sitemap-index0.xml Sitemap: http://www.t-online.de/sport/sitemap-index0.xml Sitemap: http://www.t-online.de/unterhaltung/sitemap-index0.xml Sitemap: http://www.t-online.de/videos/sitemap-video-index0.xml
robots.txt versions
| From | Through | State | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-26 | 2026-10-27 | ok 200 | aefcf6200619 |
Timeline of changes
| Date | What changed |
|---|---|
| No changes since the first observation (2026-10-26). | |
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 | www.t-online.de | ok view | blocks | allows | unknown | blocks | allows | unknown | blocks |
| 2025-09-15 CC-MAIN-2025-38 | www.t-online.de | ok view | blocks | allows | unknown | blocks | allows | unknown | blocks |
| 2024-09-16 CC-MAIN-2024-38 | www.t-online.de | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2023-10-02 CC-MAIN-2023-40 | www.t-online.de | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2022-10-03 CC-MAIN-2022-40 | www.t-online.de | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2021-09-27 CC-MAIN-2021-39 | www.t-online.de | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2020-09-28 CC-MAIN-2020-40 | www.t-online.de | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2019-09-23 CC-MAIN-2019-39 | www.t-online.de | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2018-09-24 CC-MAIN-2018-39 | www.t-online.de | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2018-01-29 CC-MAIN-2018-05 | www.t-online.de | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-10-23 CC-MAIN-2017-43 | www.t-online.de | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-09-25 CC-MAIN-2017-39 | www.t-online.de | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-07-24 CC-MAIN-2017-30 | www.t-online.de | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-04-24 CC-MAIN-2017-17 | www.t-online.de | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-01-23 CC-MAIN-2017-04 | www.t-online.de | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2016-10-03 CC-MAIN-2016-40 | t-online.de | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2016-09-05 CC-MAIN-2016-36 | t-online.de | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
Evidence
Every daily observation of t-online.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/t-online.de