telegraph.co.uk: what it tells AI crawlers
On 27 October 2026, telegraph.co.uk's robots.txt fully blocked GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, PerplexityBot and CCBot.
Last verified 2026-10-28 03:59 UTC (daily run of 2026-10-27). Proof for that day.
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- ok (HTTP 200) · https://www.telegraph.co.uk/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-26 · sha2562aff8d5f0e77abba…· 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 | blocks | named in its own group |
| ChatGPT-User | blocks | named in its own group |
| ClaudeBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Claude-SearchBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Claude-User | blocks | named in its own group |
| PerplexityBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Perplexity-User | blocks | named in its own 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 | blocks | named in its own group |
| anthropic-ai | blocks | named in its own group |
| bedrockbot | blocks | named in its own group |
| ChatGLM-Spider | blocks | named in its own group |
| Claude-Web | blocks | named in its own group |
| cohere-ai | blocks | named in its own group |
| Cotoyogi | blocks | named in its own group |
| DeepSeekBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Diffbot | blocks | named in its own group |
| DuckAssistBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| FacebookBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| FriendlyCrawler | blocks | named in its own group |
| Google-CloudVertexBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| GoogleOther | blocks | named in its own group |
| GoogleOther-Image | blocks | named in its own group |
| GoogleOther-Video | blocks | named in its own group |
| iaskspider | blocks | named in its own group |
| ICC-Crawler | blocks | named in its own group |
| ImagesiftBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| ISSCyberRiskCrawler | blocks | named in its own group |
| KunatoCrawler | blocks | named in its own group |
| meta-externalfetcher | blocks | named in its own group |
| MistralAI-User | blocks | named in its own group |
| omgili | blocks | named in its own group |
| omgilibot | blocks | named in its own group |
| PanguBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| PetalBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| QualifiedBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Scrapy | blocks | named in its own group |
| TikTokSpider | blocks | named in its own group |
| Timpibot | blocks | named in its own group |
| VelenPublicWebCrawler | blocks | named in its own group |
| WARDBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Webzio-Extended | blocks | named in its own group |
| WRTNBot | blocks | named in its own 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) | yes |
| Sends noai / noimageai directives | no |
| Refused our fetcher (403 / challenge) | no |
robots.txt as recorded sha256 53e028b9b53568ef…
# Robots.txt file # All robots will spider the domain User-agent: * Disallow: */application/* Disallow: */ixale/ Disallow: /core/Content/ Disallow: /*?source=rss Disallow: /*?mobile=true Disallow: /*?mobile=basic Disallow: /*?ModPagespeed=noscript Disallow: /promotions/emails/ Disallow: /r/ Disallow: /search/* Disallow: /searchbeta/* Disallow: /sponsored/travel/msc-cruises/ Disallow: /travel/8711559/The-Telegraph-Travel-Awards-2011.html Disallow: /travel/hotel/e/* Disallow: /sponsored/staging/ Disallow: /sponsored/email/ Disallow: /sponsored/business/northern-ireland-business/ Disallow: /sponsored/business/lloyds-tsb-enterprise-awards/ Disallow: /sponsored/earth/statoil/ Disallow: /sponsored/motoring/alfa-romeo-cars/ Disallow: /sponsored/motoring/vw-up/ Disallow: /sponsored/property/all-saints-eastbourne/ Disallow: /sponsored/supplement-portfolio/ Disallow: /sponsored/travel/cunard-cruises/ Disallow: /sponsored/travel/cruise-holidays/ Disallow: /sponsored/travel/macau/macaumap/ Disallow: /sponsored/travel/telegraph-cottages/ Disallow: /sponsored/finance/spread-betting/ Disallow: /sponsored/finance/retirement-annuity/ Disallow: /sponsored/travel/hidden-britain/ Disallow: /sponsored/business/sme-business-essentials/ Disallow: /sponsored/in-the-know/london-cultural-attractions Disallow: /sponsored/in-the-know/london-dining Disallow: /sponsored/in-the-know/london-entertainment Disallow: /sponsored/in-the-know/london-lifestyle Disallow: /sponsored/in-the-know/london-nightlife Disallow: /sponsored/in-the-know/london-shopping Disallow: /sponsored/in-the-know/london-sport-activities Disallow: /sponsored/in-the-know/london-transport-accommodation Disallow: /sponsored/in-the-know/london-video-guides Disallow: /sponsored/motoring/suzuki-motorbikes/ Disallow: /sponsored/technology/cool-list/ Disallow: /sponsored/why-not/11633071/Voltarol-Tool.html Disallow: /sponsored/why-not/11632940/voltarol-Poll.html Disallow: /sponsored/why-not/11633725/Voltarol-tool-Mobile.html Disallow: /sponsored/11874202/Header-for-article-bottom-containers-Dove-Rugby.html Disallow: /events/jeffrey-archer/order-confirmation/ Disallow: /events/jodi-and-graham/order-confirmation/ Disallow: /events/champions-tennis-vip-experience/order-confirmation/ Disallow: /events/an-evening-with-sir-ranulph-fiennes/order-confirmation/ Disallow: /events/the-telegraph-dining-experience/order-confirmation/ Disallow: /travel/*/articles/page-* Disallow: /*_jcr_content* Sitemap: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/cars/sitemap.xml Sitemap: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sitemaps/news/news_sitemap_index.xml Sitemap: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sitemaps/section/section_sitemap_index.xml Sitemap: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sitemaps/video/video_sitemap_index.xml Sitemap: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sitemaps/web/web_sitemap_index.xml Sitemap: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/film/sitemap.xml Sitemap: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/sitemap.xml Sitemap: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/beauty/sitemap.xml Sitemap: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/sitemap.xml Sitemap: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/sitemap.xml Sitemap: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/theatre/sitemap.xml Sitemap: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/dance/sitemap.xml Sitemap: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opera/sitemap.xml Sitemap: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/photography/sitemap.xml Sitemap: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/art/sitemap.xml Sitemap: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/radio/sitemap.xml Sitemap: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comedy/sitemap.xml Sitemap: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/food-and-drink/sitemap.xml Sitemap: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/sitemap.xml Sitemap: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/interiors/sitemap.xml Sitemap: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/pets/sitemap.xml Sitemap: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/wellbeing/sitemap.xml Sitemap: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gaming/sitemap.xml Sitemap: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sitemap-news.xml Sitemap: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sitemap.xml Sitemap: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/sitemap.xml Sitemap: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/sitemap.xml Sitemap: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/financial-services/sitemap.xml User-Agent: endeca Disallow: /archive/ Disallow: /search/*
robots.txt versions
| From | Through | State | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-26 | 2026-10-27 | ok 200 | 2aff8d5f0e77 |
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.telegraph.co.uk | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2025-09-15 CC-MAIN-2025-38 | telegraph.co.uk | redirect-only | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown |
| 2024-09-16 CC-MAIN-2024-38 | www.telegraph.co.uk | ok view | blocks | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2021-09-27 CC-MAIN-2021-39 | www.telegraph.co.uk | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2020-09-28 CC-MAIN-2020-40 | www.telegraph.co.uk | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2019-09-23 CC-MAIN-2019-39 | www.telegraph.co.uk | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2018-09-24 CC-MAIN-2018-39 | www.telegraph.co.uk | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2018-01-29 CC-MAIN-2018-05 | www.telegraph.co.uk | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-10-23 CC-MAIN-2017-43 | www.telegraph.co.uk | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-09-25 CC-MAIN-2017-39 | www.telegraph.co.uk | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-07-24 CC-MAIN-2017-30 | www.telegraph.co.uk | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-04-24 CC-MAIN-2017-17 | telegraph.co.uk | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-01-23 CC-MAIN-2017-04 | telegraph.co.uk | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2016-10-03 CC-MAIN-2016-40 | telegraph.co.uk | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2016-09-05 CC-MAIN-2016-36 | telegraph.co.uk | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
Evidence
Every daily observation of telegraph.co.uk 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/telegraph.co.uk