vk.ru: what it tells AI crawlers

On 28 October 2026, vk.ru's robots.txt allowed all of GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Google-Extended, PerplexityBot and CCBot.

Last verified 2026-10-29 03:59 UTC (daily run of 2026-10-28). Proof for that day.

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robots.txt

ok (HTTP 200) · https://vk.ru/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-26 · sha256 573219d395c1aa08… · view as recorded

The * group

allows applies to every agent without its own group

Per AI bot, 2026-10-28

Other signals

robots.txt as recorded sha256 573219d395c1aa08…

User-agent: *
Disallow: /doc-*
Disallow: /away.php
Disallow: /im?
Disallow: /search*&*&*&
Disallow: *?w=story
Disallow: *?w=wall
Disallow: *?w=page
Disallow: *?w=app
Disallow: *?w=poll
Disallow: *?w=service-booking-*
Disallow: *?w=likes
Disallow: *?w=shares
Disallow: *?w=note
Disallow: *?w=away
Disallow: /call?id=
Disallow: /feed$
Disallow: /feed*
Disallow: /bookmarks*
Disallow: /friends*
Disallow: /gifts
Disallow: /groups?id=
Disallow: /narrative-
Disallow: /audio?performer=1&q=
Disallow: /stats?gid=
Disallow: /write-
Disallow: /app*_
Disallow: *api_access_key=
Disallow: *_query=
Disallow: /wall*?reply=
Disallow: /wall*?thread=
Disallow: /search*sort=
Disallow: *m=1$
Disallow: *loc=
Disallow: *from_id=
Disallow: *ad_id=
Disallow: *_smt=
Disallow: /app*form_id=
Disallow: /podcast*t=
Disallow: /coin*mid=
Disallow: *z=album
Disallow: *z=clip
Disallow: *z=photo
Disallow: *z=video
Disallow: /market_catalog/*?w=product-
Disallow: /page-
Disallow: /ua_mailing
Disallow: *?w=address
Disallow: /*?null$
Disallow: /pages?oid=-
Disallow: /*/video-
Disallow: *?order=
Disallow: /wall-*?q=
Disallow: /widget_auth.php
Disallow: /wall*?own=1
Disallow: /wall*?search=1
Disallow: /*?offset=0
Disallow: /*?utm_*=
Disallow: /topic*?post=
Disallow: /login?*=
Disallow: /feed?section=search&q=
Disallow: /wall*?with=
Disallow: *?act=
Disallow: /call/*
Disallow: /calls*
Disallow: /429.html
Disallow: *?slogin*
Disallow: *?ysclid*
Allow: /apps?act=search_page&tags=
Allow: /games?act=search_page&tags=
Allow: /apps*&tags=
Allow: /page-777107_28406709$
Allow: /page-2158488_44000074$
Allow: /page-59800369_45472411$
Allow: /page-2158488_44596199$
Allow: /page-2158488_50129817$
Allow: /search*offset=
Allow: /feed?section=coronavirus$
Allow: /feed?section=stayhome$
Disallow: *?reactions_opened*
Disallow: *share.php?*
Disallow: *?list=wall
Disallow: *?reply=
Disallow: *?from
Disallow: *?from=profile
Disallow: *?post_add
Disallow: *?menu_opened
Disallow: */challenge.html*
Disallow: */widget_*
Disallow: */_widget*
Disallow: *err404.php*

User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /doc-*
Disallow: /away.php
Disallow: /im?
Disallow: /search*&*&*&
Disallow: *?w=story
Disallow: *?w=wall
Disallow: *?w=page
Disallow: *?w=app
Disallow: *?w=poll
Disallow: *?w=service-booking-*
Disallow: *?w=likes
Disallow: *?w=shares
Disallow: *?w=note
Disallow: *?w=away
Disallow: /call?id=
Disallow: /feed$
Disallow: /feed*
Disallow: /bookmarks*
Disallow: /friends*
Disallow: /gifts
Disallow: /groups?id=
Disallow: /narrative-
Disallow: /audio?performer=1&q=
Disallow: /stats?gid=
Disallow: /write-
Disallow: /app*_
Disallow: *api_access_key=
Disallow: *_query=
Disallow: /wall*?reply=
Disallow: /wall*?thread=
Disallow: /search*sort=
Disallow: *m=1$
Disallow: *loc=
Disallow: *from_id=
Disallow: *ad_id=
Disallow: *_smt=
Disallow: /app*form_id=
Disallow: /podcast*t=
Disallow: /coin*mid=
Disallow: *z=album
Disallow: *z=clip
Disallow: *z=photo
Disallow: *z=video
Disallow: /market_catalog/*?w=product-
Disallow: /ua_mailing
Disallow: *?w=address
Disallow: /*?null$
Disallow: /*/video-
Disallow: *?order=
Disallow: /wall-*?q=
Disallow: /widget_auth.php
Disallow: /wall*?own=1
Disallow: /wall*?search=1
Disallow: /*?offset=0
Disallow: /*?utm_*=
Disallow: /topic*?post=
Disallow: /feed?section=search&q=
Disallow: /wall*?with=
Disallow: *?act=
Disallow: /call/*
Disallow: *?slogin*
Disallow: *?ysclid*
Allow: /apps?act=search_page&tags=
Allow: /games?act=search_page&tags=
Allow: /apps*&tags=
Allow: /page-777107_28406709$
Allow: /page-2158488_44000074$
Allow: /page-59800369_45472411$
Allow: /page-2158488_44596199$
Allow: /page-2158488_50129817$
Allow: /search*offset=
Allow: /feed?section=coronavirus$
Allow: /feed?section=stayhome
Disallow: *?reactions_opened*
Disallow: *share.php?*
Disallow: *?list=wall
Disallow: *?reply=
Disallow: *?from
Disallow: *?from=profile
Disallow: *?post_add
Disallow: *?menu_opened
Disallow: */challenge.html*
Disallow: */widget_*
Disallow: */_widget*
Disallow: *err404.php*

User-agent: Yandex
Disallow: /doc-*
Disallow: /away.php
Disallow: /im?
Disallow: /search*&*&*&
Disallow: *?w=story
Disallow: *?w=service-booking-*
Disallow: *?w=wall
Disallow: *?w=page
Disallow: *?w=app
Disallow: *?w=poll
Disallow: *?w=likes
Disallow: *?w=shares
Disallow: *?w=note
Disallow: *?w=away
Disallow: /call?id=
Disallow: /feed$
Disallow: /feed*
Disallow: /bookmarks*
Disallow: /friends*
Disallow: /gifts
Disallow: /groups?id=
Disallow: /narrative-
Disallow: /audio?performer=1&q=
Disallow: /stats?gid=
Disallow: /write-
Disallow: /app*_
Disallow: *api_access_key=
Disallow: *_query=
Disallow: /wall*?reply=
Disallow: /wall*?thread=
Disallow: /search*sort=
Disallow: *m=1$
Disallow: *loc=
Disallow: *from_id=
Disallow: *ad_id=
Disallow: *_smt=
Disallow: /app*form_id=
Disallow: /podcast*t=
Disallow: /coin*mid=
Disallow: *z=album
Disallow: *z=clip
Disallow: *z=photo
Disallow: *z=video
Disallow: /market_catalog/*?w=product-
Disallow: /page-
Disallow: /ua_mailing
Disallow: *?w=address
Disallow: /*?null$
Disallow: /pages?oid=-
Disallow: /*/video-
Disallow: *?order=
Disallow: /wall-*?q=
Disallow: /widget_auth.php
Disallow: /wall*?own=1
Disallow: /wall*?search=1
Disallow: /*?offset=0
Disallow: /*?utm_*=
Disallow: /topic*?post=
Disallow: /login?*=
Disallow: /feed?section=search&q=
Disallow: /wall*?with=
Disallow: *?act=
Disallow: /call/*
Disallow: *?slogin*
Disallow: *?ysclid*
Allow: /apps?act=search_page&tags=
Allow: /games?act=search_page&tags=
Allow: /apps*&tags=
Allow: /page-777107_28406709$
Allow: /page-2158488_44000074$
Allow: /page-59800369_45472411$
Allow: /page-2158488_44596199$
Allow: /page-2158488_50129817$
Allow: /search*offset=
Allow: /feed?section=coronavirus$
Allow: /feed?section=stayhome$
Disallow: *?reactions_opened*
Disallow: *share.php?*
Disallow: *?list=wall
Disallow: *?reply=
Disallow: *?from
Disallow: *?from=profile
Disallow: *?post_add
Disallow: *?menu_opened
Disallow: */challenge.html*
Disallow: */widget_*
Disallow: */_widget*
Disallow: *err404.php*
Allow: /s/v1/doc/HumbuSZq4Cz8r12yDSagIdh_NxHYmKpay8X54ZO2sua7_f_yyQk
Clean-param: ref&list&from&rev&anchor&utm_source&utm_medium&utm_campaign&01&02&03&04&05&06&07&08&09&10&11&12&13&14&15&16&17&18&19&20

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 vk.ru is a leaf in that day's Merkle tree. Proof of the robots.txt line for 2026-10-28: audit path (JSON), day root and OpenTimestamps proof (complete (bitcoin block 973640)).

API: https://infrarabbit.com/crawlers/api/v1/policy/vk.ru