wired.com: what it tells AI crawlers

On 27 October 2026, wired.com's robots.txt fully blocked 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://www.wired.com/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-26 · sha256 f29be655ffef0b4c… · 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 2851e8763a4bc1d1…

User-agent: *
Disallow: /*?redirectURL=
Disallow: /*/amp
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /user/
Disallow: /templatedata/
Disallow: /partnerfeeds/
Disallow: /magazine/polls/
Disallow: /services/emailFriend
Disallow: /politics/law/news/2001/12/48946
Disallow: /politics/law/news/2001/12/49013
Disallow: /politics/law/news/2001/12/49083
Disallow: /politics/law/news/2001/12/49141
Disallow: /politics/law/news/2002/03/51042
Disallow: /politics/law/news/2001/12/48938
Disallow: /politics/law/news/2001/12/48940
Disallow: /politics/law/news/2001/12/48943
Disallow: /politics/law/news/2001/12/49013
Disallow: /politics/law/news/2001/12/48929
Disallow: /politics/law/news/2001/12/48938
Disallow: /politics/law/news/2001/12/48940
Disallow: /politics/law/news/2001/12/48941
Disallow: /politics/law/news/2001/12/48942
Disallow: /politics/law/news/2001/12/48943
Disallow: /news/politics/0,1283,48946,00.html
Disallow: /news/politics/0,1283,49132,00.html
Disallow: /news/politics/0,48940-0.html
Disallow: /news/politics/1,49013-0.html
Disallow: /culture/lifestyle/news/2001/07/45247
Disallow: /culture/lifestyle/news/2001/02/41846
Disallow: /2001/07/dying-for-attention/
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/
Disallow: /wp-content/cache/
Disallow: /wp-content/themes/
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /culture/lifestyle/news/2001/08/46315
Disallow: /2001/08/gruesome-movie-sparks-outrage/
Disallow: /techbiz/media/news/2001/09/46556
Disallow: /2001/09/controversial-shock-site-for-sale/
Disallow: /2007/07/fbi-spyware-how/
Disallow: /partners/
Disallow: /sponsored/
Disallow: /video/right_rail*
Disallow: /auth/*
Disallow: /account/*
Disallow: /preview/
Allow: /wp-content/
Allow: /wp-content/themes/Phoenix/assets/css/style.css
Allow: /wp-content/themes/Phoenix/assets/css/hf.css
Allow: /wp-content/themes/Phoenix/assets/images/apple-touch-icon.png
Allow: /wp-content/themes/Phoenix/assets/images/
Allow: /wp-content/themes/wired/assets/images/gallery-cam@2x.png
Allow: /wp-content/themes/wired/assets/images/subscribe_290x110.gif
Allow: /wp-content/themes/wired/assets/images/wired_insider_1118_1000x190.jpg
Allow: /wp-content/themes/wired/assets/images/subscribe_1000x190.gif
Allow: /wp-content/themes/wired/assets/images/post_wired_logo_150x60.gif
Allow: /wp-content/themes/wired/assets/images/wired_video_1000x190.jpg
Allow: /wp-content/themes/wired/assets/images/subscribe_310x80.gif
Allow: /wp-content/themes/wired/assets/images/disruptive_by_design_2012.gif
Allow: /wp-content/themes/wired/assets/images/gallery-illo@2x.png
Allow: /wp-content/themes/Phoenix/assets/js/vendor/picturefill.min.js
Allow: /wp-content/themes/Phoenix/assets/images/apple-touch-icon.png
Allow: /wp-content/themes/Phoenix/assets/images/nav-icons-dist/sprite-2-25.png
Allow: /wp-content/themes/Phoenix/assets/images/rad-fallback/fallback-short.jpg
Allow: /wp-content/themes/Phoenix/assets/images/rad-fallback/fallback-tall-b.jpg
Allow: /wp-includes/js/wp-emoji-release.min.js
Allow: /wp-includes/js/wp-emoji-release.min.js?ver=4.5.2
Allow: /wp-content/themes/Phoenix/assets/css/cyphon.css
Allow: /wp-content/plugins/feature-story-builder/builder-frontend/assets/css/fsb.css
Allow: /wp-includes/js/mediaelement/mediaelementplayer.min.css
Allow: /wp-includes/js/mediaelement/wp-mediaelement.min.css
Allow: /wp-content/themes/Phoenix/assets/css/exchange.css
Allow: /wp-content/themes/Phoenix/assets/css/wired-blank-canvas.css
Allow: /wp-content/plugins/google-to-table/css/google-to-table.css
Allow: /wp-content/plugins/feature-story-builder/builder-frontend/assets/images/arrow.png
Allow: /wp-content/plugins/feature-story-builder/builder-frontend/assets/images/footer-wired.png
Allow: /wp-content/plugins/feature-story-builder/builder-frontend/assets/images/logo-w.png
Allow: /wp-content/plugins/feature-story-builder/builder-frontend/assets/images/w.png
Allow: /wp-includes/js/mediaelement/mediaelementplayer.min.css
Allow: /wp-includes/js/mediaelement/wp-mediaelement.min.css
Allow: /partners/bnymellon/futureofmoney/images
Disallow: /*{{url}}
Disallow: /*%7B%7Burl%7D%7D
Disallow: /*{{section}}
Disallow: /*%7B%7Bsection%7D%7D
Disallow: /product/
Disallow: /user-context?referrer
Disallow: /services.min.js?_=

User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /*/amp
Disallow: /*{{url}}
Disallow: /*%7B%7Burl%7D%7D
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /*?redirectURL=
Disallow: /auth/*
Disallow: /account/*
Disallow: /*{{section}}
Disallow: /*%7B%7Bsection%7D%7D
Disallow: /product/
Disallow: /user-context?referrer
Disallow: /services.min.js?_=
Disallow: /preview/

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /*/amp
Disallow: /*{{url}}
Disallow: /*%7B%7Burl%7D%7D
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /*?redirectURL=
Disallow: /auth/*
Disallow: /account/*
Disallow: /*{{section}}
Disallow: /*%7B%7Bsection%7D%7D
Disallow: /product/
Disallow: /user-context?referrer
Disallow: /services.min.js?_=

User-agent: Google-InspectionTool
Allow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: FacebookBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Disallow: /

User-agent: cohere-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: Omgilibot
Disallow: /

User-agent: omgili
Disallow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: YouBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: Diffbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /

Sitemap: https://www.wired.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.wired.com/branded-sitemap.xml
#Sitemap: https://www.wired.com/coupons/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.wired.com/video/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.wired.com/feed/google-latest-news/sitemap-google-news
Sitemap: https://www.wired.com/feed/rss
Sitemap: https://www.wired.com/contributors-sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.wired.com/categories-sitemap.xml?hierarchy=tags
#Sitemap: https://www.wired.com/categories-sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.wired.com/sitemap-archive-1.xml
Sitemap: https://www.wired.com/bundles-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 wired.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/wired.com