welt.de: what it tells AI crawlers

On 27 October 2026, welt.de's robots.txt fully blocked 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://www.welt.de:443/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-26 · sha256 6eeecdbdd6db728c… · view as recorded

The * group

allows applies to every agent without its own group

Per AI bot, 2026-10-27

Other signals

robots.txt as recorded sha256 6eeecdbdd6db728c…

# The Facebook Crawler
User-agent: Facebot
Allow: /

User-agent: AhrefsBot
User-agent: AI2Bot
User-agent: Ai2Bot-Dolma
User-agent: aiHitBot
User-agent: Amazonbot
User-agent: Andibot
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
User-agent: Awario
User-agent: Baiduspider
User-agent: bedrockbot
User-agent: BLEXBot
User-agent: Brightbot 1.0
User-agent: Bytespider
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: cohere-ai
User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler
User-agent: Cotoyogi
User-agent: Crawlspace
User-agent: DataForSeoBot
User-agent: Datenbank Crawler
User-agent: Devin
User-agent: Diffbot
User-agent: dotbot
User-agent: DuckAssistBot
User-agent: Echobot Bot
User-agent: EchoboxBot
User-agent: Factset_spyderbot
User-agent: FirecrawlAgent
User-agent: Flamingo_SearchEngine
User-agent: FriendlyCrawler
User-agent: ia_archiver
User-agent: iaskspider/2.0
User-agent: ICC-Crawler
User-agent: ImagesiftBot
User-agent: img2dataset
User-agent: ISSCyberRiskCrawler
User-agent: Kangaroo Bot
User-agent: LCC
User-agent: magpie-crawler
User-agent: MistralAI-User
User-agent: MistralAI-User/1.0
User-agent: MJ12bot
User-agent: MyCentralAIScraperBot
User-agent: netEstate Imprint Crawler
User-agent: NovaAct
User-agent: omgili
User-agent: omgilibot
User-agent: Operator
User-agent: PanguBot
User-agent: Panscient
User-agent: panscient.com
User-agent: Perplexity-User
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: PetalBot
User-agent: PhindBot
User-agent: Poseidon Research Crawler
User-agent: QualifiedBot
User-agent: QuillBot
User-agent: quillbot.com
User-agent: SBIntuitionsBot
User-agent: Scrapy
User-agent: SemrushBot
User-agent: SemrushBot-OCOB
User-agent: SemrushBot-SA
User-agent: SemrushBot-SWA
User-agent: sentibot
User-agent: Sidetrade indexer bot
User-agent: SirdataBot
User-agent: sogou spider
User-agent: SummalyBot
User-agent: TerraCotta
User-agent: Thinkbot
User-agent: TikTokSpider
User-agent: Timpibot
User-agent: TurnitinBot
User-agent: VelenPublicWebCrawler
User-agent: WARDBot
User-agent: Webzio-Extended
User-agent: wpbot
User-agent: YandexAdditional
User-agent: YandexAdditionalBot
User-agent: Yeti
User-agent: YouBot
Disallow: /


User-agent: *
Disallow: /channels-extern/
Disallow: /sportdaten/
Disallow: /testgpr/
Disallow: /boerse/data/
Disallow: /partner/
Disallow: /reisetipps/
Disallow: /z/
Disallow: /appl/
Disallow: /woa/
Disallow: /am-sonntag/vorproduktion/
Disallow: /audiofiles/
Disallow: /out-of-home/
Disallow: /immobilien/expose
Disallow: /suche
Disallow: /onward/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /*?config
Disallow: /*?config=newsmli_bloomberg2
Disallow: /*.xmli
Disallow: /*?service=ajax
Disallow: /*?service=Ajax
Disallow: /*?ajax
Disallow: /*?ajax&wid
Disallow: /*?config=print
Disallow: /*?config=articleidfromurl
Disallow: /*?config=endscreen
Disallow: /*?config=iframewelt
Disallow: /*?config=langeslestueck
Disallow: /*?config=latest_videos
Disallow: /*?config=menu_home
Disallow: /*?config=mostviewed_videos
Disallow: /*?config=recommended_videos
Disallow: /*?config=regioarticlemarginal
Disallow: /*?config=zoom
Disallow: /*?config=zoomopener
Disallow: /*?noredirect=true&config=standalone
Disallow: /*?config=standalone
Disallow: /*?wtmc=XING
Disallow: /*?config=articleidfromurl
Disallow: /*?print=yes
Disallow: /*?tabPane
Disallow: /video/embeded/
Disallow: /img/*-wWIDTH*.jpg
Disallow: /assets/public/fonts/


Sitemap: https://www.welt.de/sitemaps/newssitemap/newssitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.welt.de/sitemaps/sitemap/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.welt.de/sitemaps/videositemap/videositemap.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 welt.de 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/welt.de