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.
- Panel
- top 1k (Tranco)
- robots.txt
- ok (HTTP 200) · https://www.wired.com/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-26 · sha256f29be655ffef0b4c…· view as recorded - The * group
- allows applies to every agent without its own group
Per AI bot, 2026-10-27
| User agent | Verdict | How |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | allows | through the * group |
| OAI-SearchBot | allows | through the * group |
| ChatGPT-User | allows | through the * group |
| ClaudeBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Claude-SearchBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Claude-User | blocks | named in its own group |
| PerplexityBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Perplexity-User | blocks | named in its own group |
| Googlebot | allows | through the * group |
| Google-Extended | blocks | named in its own group |
| Applebot-Extended | blocks | named in its own group |
| CCBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Bytespider | blocks | named in its own group |
| Meta-ExternalAgent | blocks | named in its own group |
| Amazonbot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Bravebot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Brightbot | blocks | named in its own group |
| cohere-ai | blocks | named in its own group |
| cohere-training-data-crawler | blocks | named in its own group |
| Diffbot | blocks | named in its own group |
| DuckAssistBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| facebookexternalhit | allows | named in its own group |
| Factset_spyderbot | blocks | named in its own group |
| FirecrawlAgent | blocks | named in its own group |
| Google-CloudVertexBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| GoogleOther | blocks | named in its own group |
| meta-externalfetcher | blocks | named in its own group |
| meta-webindexer | blocks | named in its own group |
| MistralAI-User | blocks | named in its own group |
| PanguBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| PetalBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Scrapy | blocks | named in its own group |
| Shap-User | blocks | named in its own group |
| ShapBot | blocks | named in its own group |
| TikTokSpider | allows | named in its own group |
| Timpibot | blocks | named in its own group |
| Webzio-Extended | blocks | named in its own group |
| YouBot | blocks | named in its own group |
Other signals
| Publishes /llms.txt | no |
| Publishes /ai.txt | no |
| Publishes /.well-known/tdmrep.json | no |
| Reserves TDM rights (TDMRep file, header or meta) | no |
| Declares Content Signals (robots.txt or header) | no |
| Says ai-train=no in a Content Signal | no |
| Points to an RSL licence (robots.txt License line or Link header) | no |
| Answers with an x402 payment offer (lower bound: only the homepage is probed) | no |
| Answers HTTP 402 Payment Required (lower bound: only the homepage is probed) | no |
| Sends noai / noimageai directives | no |
| Refused our fetcher (403 / challenge) | no |
robots.txt as recorded sha256 cd28cb2c508d5150…
User-agent: * 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: /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: /techbiz/media/news/2001/09/46556 Disallow: /2007/07/fbi-spyware-how/ Disallow: /partners/ Disallow: /sponsored/ 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 Sitemap: https://www.wired.com/sitemap-secure.xml
robots.txt versions
| From | Through | State | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-26 | 2026-10-27 | ok 200 | f29be655ffef |
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.wired.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | blocks | blocks | unknown | blocks |
| 2025-09-15 CC-MAIN-2025-38 | www.wired.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | blocks |
| 2024-09-16 CC-MAIN-2024-38 | www.wired.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | blocks |
| 2023-10-02 CC-MAIN-2023-40 | www.wired.com | ok view | blocks | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2022-10-03 CC-MAIN-2022-40 | www.wired.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2021-09-27 CC-MAIN-2021-39 | www.wired.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2020-09-28 CC-MAIN-2020-40 | www.wired.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2019-09-23 CC-MAIN-2019-39 | www.wired.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2018-09-24 CC-MAIN-2018-39 | www.wired.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-09-25 CC-MAIN-2017-39 | www.wired.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2017-01-23 CC-MAIN-2017-04 | www.wired.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2016-10-03 CC-MAIN-2016-40 | wired.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
| 2016-09-05 CC-MAIN-2016-36 | wired.com | ok view | allows | allows | unknown | allows | allows | unknown | allows |
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