twitch.tv: what it tells AI crawlers

On 27 October 2026, twitch.tv's robots.txt allowed all of GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Google-Extended, 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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robots.txt
ok (HTTP 200) · https://www.twitch.tv/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-26 · sha256 34a44188490e1ff0… · view as recorded
The * group
allows applies to every agent without its own group

Per AI bot, 2026-10-27

User agentVerdictHow
GPTBotallowsthrough the * group
OAI-SearchBotallowsthrough the * group
ChatGPT-Userallowsthrough the * group
ClaudeBotallowsthrough the * group
Claude-SearchBotallowsthrough the * group
Claude-Userallowsthrough the * group
PerplexityBotallowsthrough the * group
Perplexity-Userallowsthrough the * group
Googlebotallowsthrough the * group
Google-Extendedallowsthrough the * group
Applebot-Extendedallowsthrough the * group
CCBotallowsthrough the * group
Bytespiderallowsthrough the * group
Meta-ExternalAgentallowsthrough the * group
Amazonbotallowsnamed in its own group
Amzn-SearchBotallowsnamed in its own group
Amzn-Userallowsnamed in its own 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 3bf83d9ad4057c9f…

User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow:

User-agent: Amazonbot-Video
Disallow:

User-agent: Amzn-SearchBot
Disallow:

User-agent: Amzn-User
Disallow:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /login
Disallow: /signup
Disallow: /auth/
Disallow: /user/account-recovery
Disallow: /user/password-reset
Disallow: /user/not-me
Disallow: /activate
Disallow: /admin/*
Disallow: /wv/*
Disallow: /user/*
Disallow: /message/*
Disallow: /settings/
Disallow: /subscriptions
Disallow: /inventory
Disallow: /wallet
Disallow: /drops/
Disallow: /payments/
Disallow: /email-unsubscribe/
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /bits-checkout
Disallow: /redeem
Disallow: /claim
Disallow: /download-keys
Disallow: /popout/
Disallow: /embed/
Disallow: /chat/
Disallow: /moderator/
Disallow: /stream
Disallow: /collab
Disallow: /guest-star
Disallow: /sq$
Disallow: /sq/
Disallow: /gl$
Disallow: /gl/
Disallow: /sportradar-widgets
Disallow: /beta/
Disallow: /extensions/oauth-redirect
Disallow: /copyright-claims
Disallow: /report-appeal
Disallow: /oss-attribution
Disallow: /dj-signup
Disallow: /r/
Disallow: /stale/
Allow: /directory
Allow: /.well-known/assetlinks.json

Sitemap: https://www.twitch.tv/sitemapv2_index.xml.gz

robots.txt versions

FromThroughStateVersion
2026-10-262026-10-27ok 20034a44188490e

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.twitch.tvok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2025-09-15 CC-MAIN-2025-38www.twitch.tvabsentallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2024-09-16 CC-MAIN-2024-38www.twitch.tvok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2023-10-02 CC-MAIN-2023-40www.twitch.tvok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2022-10-03 CC-MAIN-2022-40www.twitch.tvok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2021-09-27 CC-MAIN-2021-39www.twitch.tvok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2020-09-28 CC-MAIN-2020-40www.twitch.tvok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2019-09-23 CC-MAIN-2019-39www.twitch.tvok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2018-09-24 CC-MAIN-2018-39www.twitch.tvok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2018-01-29 CC-MAIN-2018-05twitch.tvredirect-onlyunknownunknownunknownunknownunknownunknownunknown
2017-10-23 CC-MAIN-2017-43www.twitch.tvok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2017-09-25 CC-MAIN-2017-39www.twitch.tvok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2017-07-24 CC-MAIN-2017-30www.twitch.tvok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2017-04-24 CC-MAIN-2017-17twitch.tvok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2017-01-23 CC-MAIN-2017-04twitch.tvok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2016-10-03 CC-MAIN-2016-40twitch.tvok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2016-09-05 CC-MAIN-2016-36twitch.tvok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows

Evidence

Every daily observation of twitch.tv 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/twitch.tv