vtex.com: what it tells AI crawlers

On 27 October 2026, vtex.com'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.

Panel
top 10k (Tranco)
robots.txt
ok (HTTP 200) · https://www.vtex.com/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-27 · sha256 c42b6fbbcfdff309… · view as recorded
The * group
allows applies to every agent without its own group

Per AI bot, 2026-10-27

User agentVerdictHow
GPTBotallowsnamed in its own group
OAI-SearchBotallowsnamed in its own group
ChatGPT-Userallowsnamed in its own group
ClaudeBotallowsnamed in its own group
Claude-SearchBotallowsnamed in its own group
Claude-Userallowsnamed in its own group
PerplexityBotallowsnamed in its own group
Perplexity-Userallowsnamed in its own group
Googlebotallowsthrough the * group
Google-Extendedallowsnamed in its own group
Applebot-Extendedallowsnamed in its own group
CCBotallowsnamed in its own group
Bytespiderallowsnamed in its own group
Meta-ExternalAgentallowsnamed in its own group
Amazonbotallowsnamed in its own group
anthropic-aiallowsnamed in its own group
cohere-aiallowsnamed in its own group

Other signals

Publishes /llms.txtno
Publishes /ai.txtyes
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 1c41ca4b70f335a7…

# robots.txt for vtex.com
# Last updated: 2026-09-16

# Default: allow all crawlers
User-agent: *
Allow: /

# Disallow sensitive and duplicate paths
Disallow: /api/
# Social preview images are public, deterministic, and safe for unfurl crawlers.
Allow: /api/social-card
Disallow: /sign-in
Disallow: /sign-up
Disallow: /404
Disallow: /documents/*/legal/
Disallow: /documents/en-us/ParadigmB2B_Combine-26_vendor-Enterprise_VTEX.pdf

# Block cookies policy PDF from indexing (redirected to compliance.vtex.com)
Disallow: /*/trust/cookies-information/
Disallow: /*/trust/platform/cookies-information/

# Sitemaps
Sitemap: https://www.vtex.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.vtex.com/en-us/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.vtex.com/pt-br/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.vtex.com/es-mx/sitemap.xml

# AI Crawler Permissions
# See also: https://www.vtex.com/ai.txt

robots.txt versions

FromThroughStateVersion
2026-10-282026-10-28ok 200bde0c73974cbdiff with previous
2026-10-272026-10-27ok 200c42b6fbbcfdfdiff with previous
2026-10-262026-10-26ok 200ddf7d24e469f

Timeline of changes

DateWhat changed
2026-10-28robots.txt changed
2026-10-27robots.txt changed

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.vtex.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2025-09-15 CC-MAIN-2025-38vtex.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2024-09-16 CC-MAIN-2024-38vtex.comok viewpartialpartialunknownpartialpartialunknownpartial
2023-10-02 CC-MAIN-2023-40vtex.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2022-10-03 CC-MAIN-2022-40vtex.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2021-09-27 CC-MAIN-2021-39vtex.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2020-09-28 CC-MAIN-2020-40vtex.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2019-09-23 CC-MAIN-2019-39vtex.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2018-09-24 CC-MAIN-2018-39www2.vtex.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2018-01-29 CC-MAIN-2018-05www.vtex.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2017-10-23 CC-MAIN-2017-43www.vtex.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2017-09-25 CC-MAIN-2017-39www.vtex.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2017-07-24 CC-MAIN-2017-30www.vtex.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2017-04-24 CC-MAIN-2017-17vtex.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2017-01-23 CC-MAIN-2017-04vtex.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2016-10-03 CC-MAIN-2016-40www.vtex.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2016-09-05 CC-MAIN-2016-36www.vtex.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows

Evidence

Every daily observation of vtex.com 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/vtex.com