walmart.com: what it tells AI crawlers
On 28 October 2026, walmart.com'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.
- Panel
- top 1k (Tranco)
- robots.txt
- ok (HTTP 200) · https://www.walmart.com/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-26 · sha256502a5efeb6a86722…· view as recorded - The * group
- allows applies to every agent without its own group
Per AI bot, 2026-10-28
| User agent | Verdict | How |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | allows | through the * group |
| OAI-SearchBot | allows | through the * group |
| ChatGPT-User | allows | through the * group |
| ClaudeBot | allows | through the * group |
| Claude-SearchBot | allows | through the * group |
| Claude-User | allows | through the * group |
| PerplexityBot | allows | through the * group |
| Perplexity-User | allows | through the * group |
| Googlebot | allows | through the * group |
| Google-Extended | allows | through the * group |
| Applebot-Extended | allows | through the * group |
| CCBot | allows | through the * group |
| Bytespider | allows | through the * group |
| Meta-ExternalAgent | allows | through the * group |
| Amazonbot | allows | through the * group |
Other signals
| Publishes /llms.txt | not observed |
| Publishes /ai.txt | not observed |
| Publishes /.well-known/tdmrep.json | not observed |
| Reserves TDM rights (TDMRep file, header or meta) | not observed |
| Declares Content Signals (robots.txt or header) | not observed |
| Says ai-train=no in a Content Signal | not observed |
| Points to an RSL licence (robots.txt License line or Link header) | not observed |
| Answers with an x402 payment offer (lower bound: only the homepage is probed) | not observed |
| Answers HTTP 402 Payment Required (lower bound: only the homepage is probed) | not observed |
| Sends noai / noimageai directives | not observed |
| Refused our fetcher (403 / challenge) | no |
robots.txt as recorded sha256 2a7f8d1550d91c0e…
#Sitemaps-https Sitemap: https://www.walmart.com/sitemap_category.xml Sitemap: https://www.walmart.com/sitemap_store_main.xml Sitemap: https://www.walmart.com/help/sitemap_gm.xml Sitemap: https://www.walmart.com/sitemap_browse_fst.xml Sitemap: https://www.walmart.com/sitemap_store_dept.xml Sitemap: https://www.walmart.com/sitemap_tp_legacy.xml Sitemap: https://www.walmart.com/sitemap_tp_at.xml Sitemap: https://www.walmart.com/sitemap_tp_br.xml Sitemap: https://www.walmart.com/sitemap_tp_kp.xml Sitemap: https://www.walmart.com/sitemap_brp_02.xml Sitemap: https://www.walmart.com/sitemap_brp_03.xml Sitemap: https://www.walmart.com/sitemap_brp_04.xml Sitemap: https://www.walmart.com/sitemap_brp_05.xml Sitemap: https://www.walmart.com/sitemap_brp_06.xml Sitemap: https://www.walmart.com/sitemap_brp_07.xml Sitemap: https://www.walmart.com/sitemap_brp_08.xml Sitemap: https://www.walmart.com/sitemap_brp_09.xml Sitemap: https://www.walmart.com/sitemap_itp_01.xml Sitemap: https://www.walmart.com/sitemap_itp_02.xml Sitemap: https://www.walmart.com/sitemap_product_03.xml Sitemap: https://www.walmart.com/sitemap_rp_01.xml Sitemap: https://www.walmart.com/sitemap_rp_02.xml Sitemap: https://www.walmart.com/sitemap_rp_03.xml Sitemap: https://www.walmart.com/sitemap_rp_04.xml Sitemap: https://www.walmart.com/sitemap_rp_05.xml Sitemap: https://www.walmart.com/sitemap_slp_01.xml Sitemap: https://www.walmart.com/sitemap_slp_02.xml Sitemap: https://www.walmart.com/sitemap_auto_dir.xml Sitemap: https://www.walmart.com/sitemap_brndshp_brand.xml Sitemap: https://www.walmart.com/sitemap_sp.xml Sitemap: https://www.walmart.com/sitemap_hi_ip.xml Sitemap: https://www.walmart.com/sitemap_hi_tp.xml Sitemap: https://www.walmart.com/sitemap_hi_bp.xml Sitemap: https://www.walmart.com/sitemap_hi_mp.xml #Disallow select URLs User-agent: * Disallow: /0/ Disallow: /55875582/walmart-us/catalog/ Disallow: /account/ Disallow: /api/ Disallow: /collection/api/logger Disallow: /cp/-201 Disallow: /cp/-302 Disallow: /cp/-306 Disallow: /cp/-309 Disallow: /cp/-506 Disallow: /cp/-509 Disallow: /cp/api/logger Disallow: /cp/api/wpa Disallow: /cservice/ Disallow: /cservice/ya_index.gsp Disallow: /electrode/api/logger Disallow: /email_collect/ Disallow: /giftregistry/ Disallow: /msp Disallow: /nonConfig/api/wpa Disallow: /popup_security.jsp Disallow: /product/electrode/api/logger Disallow: /product/electrode/api/wpa Allow: /reviews/product/ Allow: /reviews/seller/ Disallow: /search Disallow: /search/api/wpa Disallow: */api/wpa Disallow: */midas/* Disallow: /search/search-ng.do Disallow: /solutions/ Disallow: /store/ajax/detail-navigation Disallow: /store/ajax/local-store Disallow: /store/ajax/preferred Disallow: /store/ajax/search Disallow: /store/ajax/visited-store Disallow: /store/category/ Disallow: /store/electrode/api/fetch-coupons Disallow: /store/electrode/api/logger Disallow: /store/electrode/api/p13n Disallow: /store/electrode/api/search Disallow: /store/electrode/api/stores Allow: /store/finder Disallow: /store/popular_in_grade/ Disallow: /storeLocator/ Disallow: /storeLocator/ca_storefinder_results.do Disallow: /tealeaf Disallow: /topic/electrode/api/logger Disallow: /topic/electrode/api/wpa Disallow: /typeahead/ Disallow: /wmflows/ Disallow: */undefined/* Disallow: /store/*/search Disallow: /c/kp/*/page/* Disallow: /feeds/* Disallow: /orders Disallow: /es/ Disallow: /swag/* Disallow: /dad/trk Disallow: /sp/* #Crawler specific settings User-agent: Adsbot-Google User-agent: Mediapartners-Google # slow down Yahoo User-agent: Slurp Crawl-delay: 5
robots.txt versions
| From | Through | State | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-26 | 2026-10-28 | ok 200 | 502a5efeb6a8 |
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.walmart.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2025-09-15 CC-MAIN-2025-38 | www.walmart.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2024-09-16 CC-MAIN-2024-38 | www.walmart.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2023-10-02 CC-MAIN-2023-40 | www.walmart.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2022-10-03 CC-MAIN-2022-40 | www.walmart.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2021-09-27 CC-MAIN-2021-39 | www.walmart.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2020-09-28 CC-MAIN-2020-40 | www.walmart.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2019-09-23 CC-MAIN-2019-39 | www.walmart.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2018-09-24 CC-MAIN-2018-39 | www.walmart.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2018-04-23 CC-MAIN-2018-17 | www.walmart.com | ok view | partial | partial | unknown | partial | partial | unknown | partial |
| 2018-01-29 CC-MAIN-2018-05 | www.walmart.com | ok view | partial | partial | unknown | partial | partial | unknown | partial |
| 2017-10-23 CC-MAIN-2017-43 | www.walmart.com | ok view | partial | partial | unknown | partial | partial | unknown | partial |
| 2017-09-25 CC-MAIN-2017-39 | www.walmart.com | ok view | partial | partial | unknown | partial | partial | unknown | partial |
| 2017-07-24 CC-MAIN-2017-30 | www.walmart.com | ok view | partial | partial | unknown | partial | partial | unknown | partial |
| 2017-04-24 CC-MAIN-2017-17 | www.walmart.com | ok view | partial | partial | unknown | partial | partial | unknown | partial |
| 2017-01-23 CC-MAIN-2017-04 | www.walmart.com | ok view | partial | partial | unknown | partial | partial | unknown | partial |
| 2016-10-03 CC-MAIN-2016-40 | www.walmart.com | ok view | partial | partial | unknown | partial | partial | unknown | partial |
| 2016-09-05 CC-MAIN-2016-36 | walmart.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
Evidence
Every daily observation of walmart.com 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/walmart.com