wattpad.com: what it tells AI crawlers

On 27 October 2026, wattpad.com's robots.txt fully blocked GPTBot.

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.wattpad.com/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-26 · sha256 2befe39d3ad6be6b… · view as recorded

The * group

partial applies to every agent without its own group

Per AI bot, 2026-10-27

Other signals

robots.txt as recorded sha256 cf220925346e1c17…

# Wattpad is hiring!
#
# Check out our available positions at https://wattpad.com/jobs

User-agent: *

# Note: always make sure to test your changes at `Google Robots.txt tester`
# Last update: 2017-06-06 (plat-6362)

# Login/Logut
Disallow: /logout$
Disallow: /?nextUrl=*
Disallow: /forgot?nextUrl=*

# Personal pages
Disallow: /library$
Disallow: /myworks$
Disallow: /newsfeed$
Disallow: /notifications$
Disallow: /user_inbox$
Disallow: /inbox$
Disallow: /*/followers$
Disallow: /*/following$
Disallow: /user/*/following
Disallow: /user/*/followers
Disallow: /user_profile$

# Campaign pages not maintained regularly
Disallow: /go/romance-books/
Disallow: /go/fanfiction/
Disallow: /go/supernatural-fanfiction/
Disallow: /go/teenwolf-fanfiction/
Disallow: /go/directory
Disallow: /go/turkey
Disallow: /afterdark
Disallow: /publishedwriters/
Disallow: /wewantyou/

# Other pages
Disallow: /clubs/*
Disallow: /club/*
Disallow: /forums/*
Disallow: /help/*
Disallow: /rss/*
Disallow: /wap/*

# Access denied pages
Disallow: /docs/*
Disallow: /apiv2/*
Disallow: /fonts/*
Disallow: /dialog/*
Disallow: /workers/*
Disallow: /writers/writing-tips/
Disallow: /press/founders/
Disallow: /press/leadership/
Disallow: /afterdark/hot

# Leading dot in the path
Disallow: /.*
Disallow: /user/.*

# Exception for well-known
Allow: /.well-known/

Sitemap: https://www.wattpad.com/sitemap

# We disallow robot from RankLite
User-agent: RankLite
Disallow: /

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 wattpad.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/wattpad.com