vtb.ru: what it tells AI crawlers

On 27 October 2026, vtb.ru's robots.txt fully blocked 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://xn--90ab2c.xn--p1ai/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-26 · sha256 6856255165e0c5f2… · view as recorded

The * group

blocks applies to every agent without its own group

Per AI bot, 2026-10-27

Other signals

robots.txt as recorded sha256 f592053710c793a1…

User-Agent: *
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /o-banke/?
Disallow: /*sphrase_id=
Disallow: /o-banke/press-centr/novosti-i-press-relizy/?*&page=
Disallow: /o-banke/*?feed=
Disallow: /*utm_
Disallow: /*from=
Disallow: /*gclid=
Disallow: /*yclid=
Disallow: /404
Disallow: /*query=
Disallow: /*code=
Disallow: /*fromdomain=
Disallow: /*?$
Disallow: /*pid=
Disallow: /*site_switcher=
Disallow: /*ssl
Disallow: /*register=
Disallow: /*bid=
Disallow: /*s=
Disallow: /*_ga=
Disallow: /*nomobile=
Disallow: /vtblkl7yg3hs2vvuf*
Disallow: /vtbgjrfturehjkjkyifz*
Disallow: /malyj-biznes/promo/tarif2
Disallow: /malyj-biznes/promo/tarif1
Disallow: /malyj-biznes/promo/tarifip1
Disallow: /malyj-biznes/promo/tarifip2
Disallow: /malyj-biznes/promo/tarifllc1
Disallow: /malyj-biznes/promo/tarifllc2

User-agent: Yandex
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /o-banke/?
Disallow: /*sphrase_id=
Disallow: /o-banke/press-centr/novosti-i-press-relizy/?*&page=
Disallow: /vtblkl7yg3hs2vvuf*
Disallow: /vtbgjrfturehjkjkyifz*
Disallow: /o-banke/*?feed=
Disallow: /404
Disallow: /*query=
Disallow: /*?$
Disallow: /*site_switcher=
Disallow: /*ssl
Disallow: /*register=
Disallow: /*nomobile=
Disallow: /malyj-biznes/promo/tarif2
Disallow: /malyj-biznes/promo/tarif1
Disallow: /malyj-biznes/promo/tarifip1
Disallow: /malyj-biznes/promo/tarifip2
Disallow: /malyj-biznes/promo/tarifllc1
Disallow: /malyj-biznes/promo/tarifllc2
Clean-param: ref&utm_campaign&utm_medium&utm_source&utm_term&_openstat&gclid&yclid&from&FROM&code&fromdomain&pid&bid&utm_referrer&s&_ga /
Host: https://www.vtb.ru
Sitemap: https://www.vtb.ru/sitemap.xml
 
User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /o-banke/?
Disallow: /*sphrase_id=
Disallow: /o-banke/press-centr/novosti-i-press-relizy/?*&page=
Disallow: /o-banke/*?feed=
Disallow: /*utm_
Disallow: /*from=
Disallow: /*gclid=
Disallow: /*yclid=
Disallow: /404
Disallow: /*query=
Disallow: /*code=
Disallow: /*fromdomain=
Disallow: /*?$
Disallow: /*pid=
Disallow: /*site_switcher=
Disallow: /*ssl
Disallow: /*register=
Disallow: /*bid=
Disallow: /*s=
Disallow: /*_ga=
Disallow: /*nomobile=
Disallow: /vtblkl7yg3hs2vvuf*
Disallow: /vtbgjrfturehjkjkyifz*
Disallow: /malyj-biznes/promo/tarif2
Disallow: /malyj-biznes/promo/tarif1
Disallow: /malyj-biznes/promo/tarifip1
Disallow: /malyj-biznes/promo/tarifip2
Disallow: /malyj-biznes/promo/tarifllc1
Disallow: /malyj-biznes/promo/tarifllc2
Sitemap: https://www.vtb.ru/sitemap.xml

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 vtb.ru 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/vtb.ru