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 · sha256 aefcf62006193c76… · view as recorded
The * group
allows applies to every agent without its own group

Per AI bot, 2026-10-27

User agentVerdictHow
GPTBotblocksnamed in its own group
OAI-SearchBotallowsthrough the * group
ChatGPT-Userallowsthrough the * group
ClaudeBotblocksnamed in its own group
Claude-SearchBotallowsthrough the * group
Claude-Userallowsthrough the * group
PerplexityBotblocksnamed in its own group
Perplexity-Userallowsthrough the * group
Googlebotallowsthrough the * group
Google-Extendedallowsnamed in its own group
Applebot-Extendedblocksnamed in its own group
CCBotblocksnamed in its own group
Bytespiderblocksnamed in its own group
Meta-ExternalAgentblocksnamed in its own group
Amazonbotallowsthrough the * group

Other signals

Publishes /llms.txtno
Publishes /ai.txtno
Publishes /.well-known/tdmrep.jsonno
Reserves TDM rights (TDMRep file, header or meta)no
Declares Content Signals (robots.txt or header)no
Says ai-train=no in a Content Signalno
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 directivesno
Refused our fetcher (403 / challenge)no

robots.txt as recorded sha256 b4ce998c1cec4392…

#robots.txt t-online.de staging 66505914

User-agent: *
Disallow: /*/tid_xml_page/*
Disallow: /*/editorid_
Disallow: /*/tid_print/*
Disallow: /*/pt_iframe/*
Disallow: /*/tid_lightbox/*
Disallow: /*/pt_self/*
Disallow: /*/tid_popup/*
Disallow: /*/pt_pictureenlarge/*
Disallow: /*/tid_single_lightbox/*
Disallow: /*/tid_google_snippet/*
Disallow: /*/pt_pictureEnlarge/*
Disallow: /*,tid=print*
Disallow: /*,pt=print*
Disallow: /*,linkId=*
Disallow: /*,pt=pictureEnlarge*
Disallow: /*,vv=enlarge*
Disallow: /*,ei=*
Disallow: /*,vv=P5*
Disallow: /*,pt=self*
Disallow: /*/tid_xml_f_page/*
Disallow: /*/tid_xml_f_L20_TopicList/*
Disallow: /*/tid_xml_mcp_page/*
Disallow: /*/fp-*
Disallow: /*/fs-*
Disallow: /*/ar-*
Disallow: /*/shows/as-*
Disallow: /*/shows/sh-*
Disallow: /*/shows/fs-*
Disallow: /*/artikel/as*
Disallow: /*/archiv/fs-*
Disallow: /*/shows/artikel/*
Disallow: /*/00-startseite/*
Disallow: /*/preisvergleich/*
Disallow: /mytest/
Disallow: /*/tid_pdf_o/*
Disallow: /?artid*

User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
Disallow:

Sitemap: http://www.t-online.de/sitemap-news-0.xml.gz
Sitemap: http://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/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/lifestyle/sitemap-index0.xml
Sitemap: http://www.t-online.de/ratgeber/sitemap-index0.xml
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/eltern/sitemap-index0.xml
Sitemap: http://www.t-online.de/handy/sitemap-index0.xml
Sitemap: http://www.t-online.de/spiele/sitemap-index0.xml
Sitemap: http://www.t-online.de/wirtschaft/sitemap-index0.xml
Sitemap: http://www.t-online.de/reisen/sitemap-index0.xml
Sitemap: http://www.t-online.de/videos/sitemap-video-index0.xml

robots.txt versions

FromThroughStateVersion
2026-10-262026-10-27ok 200aefcf6200619

Timeline of changes

DateWhat 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.

CrawlHostStateGPTBotOAI-SearchBotChatGPT-UserClaudeBotClaude-SearchBotClaude-UserPerplexityBot
2026-09-21 CC-MAIN-2026-39www.t-online.deok viewblocksallowsunknownblocksallowsunknownblocks
2025-09-15 CC-MAIN-2025-38www.t-online.deok viewblocksallowsunknownblocksallowsunknownblocks
2024-09-16 CC-MAIN-2024-38www.t-online.deok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2023-10-02 CC-MAIN-2023-40www.t-online.deok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2022-10-03 CC-MAIN-2022-40www.t-online.deok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2021-09-27 CC-MAIN-2021-39www.t-online.deok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2020-09-28 CC-MAIN-2020-40www.t-online.deok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2019-09-23 CC-MAIN-2019-39www.t-online.deok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2018-09-24 CC-MAIN-2018-39www.t-online.deok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2017-09-25 CC-MAIN-2017-39www.t-online.deok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2017-01-23 CC-MAIN-2017-04www.t-online.deok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2016-10-03 CC-MAIN-2016-40t-online.deok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2016-09-05 CC-MAIN-2016-36t-online.deok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows

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