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 70018eb70e50517c…

Sitemap: https://www.wired.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.wired.com/tagpages-sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.wired.com/contributors-sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.wired.com/bundles-sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.wired.com/branded-sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.wired.com/feed/google-latest-news/sitemap-google-news
Sitemap: https://www.wired.com/feed/rss

User-agent: *
Disallow: /*?
Allow: /*?page
Allow: /*.xml?
Allow: /*.js
Allow: /*.css
Allow: /*.ico
Allow: /verso/static
Allow: /*.svg
Allow: /*.png
Allow: /*.jpg
Allow: /*.jpeg
Allow: /*rss?
Allow: /*?id=
Disallow: /auth/
Disallow: /account/
Disallow: /user/
Disallow: /user-context
Disallow: /preview/
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /product/
Disallow: /cdn-cgi/
Disallow: /services.min.js
Disallow: /com.condenast/yv8
Disallow: /reject-all

###
Allow: /v2/offers/wira
Allow: /*?*utm_medium=social
Allow: /*?*utm_medium=syndication
Allow: /*?ref=
Allow: /story/madison-square-garden-jim-dolan-surveillance-machine/?src
Disallow: */testing-products-
###

User-agent: AmazonAdBot
User-agent: FacebookExternalHit
User-agent: Google-InspectionTool
User-agent: LinkedInBot
User-agent: Pinterestbot
User-agent: Storebot-Google
User-agent: TikTokSpider
User-agent: Twitterbot
Allow: /

User-agent: Amazonbot
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
User-agent: archive.org_bot
User-agent: Bravebot
User-agent: Brightbot 1.0
User-agent: Bytespider
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
User-agent: Claude-User
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: cohere-ai
User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler
User-agent: Diffbot
User-agent: DuckAssistBot
User-agent: factset_spyderbot
User-agent: FirecrawlAgent
User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot
User-agent: Google-Extended
User-agent: GoogleOther
User-agent: heritrix
User-agent: ia_archiver
User-agent: ia_archiver-web.archive.org
User-agent: meta-externalagent
User-agent: meta-externalfetcher
User-agent: meta-webindexer
User-agent: MistralAI-User
User-agent: PanguBot
User-agent: Perplexity-User
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: PetalBot
User-agent: Scrapy
User-agent: Shap-User
User-agent: ShapBot
User-agent: Timpibot
User-agent: Yisouspider
User-agent: YouBot
User-agent: Webzio
User-agent: Webzio-Extended
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 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