AI Crawl Ledger wsj.com wsj.com: what it tells AI crawlers
On 27 October 2026, wsj.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.wsj.com/robots.txt unchanged since 2026-10-26 · sha256 89210f23a6252c1f… · view as recorded
The * group blocks applies to every agent without its own group
Per AI bot, 2026-10-27
Other signals
Publishes /llms.txt not observed Publishes /ai.txt not observed Publishes /.well-known/tdmrep.json not observed Reserves TDM rights (TDMRep file, header or meta) not observed Declares Content Signals (robots.txt or header) not observed Says ai-train=no in a Content Signal not observed Points to an RSL licence (robots.txt License line or Link header) not observed Answers with an x402 payment offer (lower bound: only the homepage is probed) not observed Answers HTTP 402 Payment Required (lower bound: only the homepage is probed) not observed Sends noai / noimageai directives not observed Refused our fetcher (403 / challenge) no
robots.txt as recorded sha256 d68c500961bab0c6…
User-agent: *
Sitemap: https://www.wsj.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.wsj.com/wsjsitemaps/wsj_google_news.xml
Sitemap: https://www.wsj.com/sitemap_topics.xml
Sitemap: https://www.wsj.com/sitemaps/web/wsj/en/sitemap_wsj_en_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.wsj.com/live_news_sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.wsj.com/wsj_graphics_sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.wsj.com/sitemaps/web/wsj/en/sitemap_news_archive_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.wsj.com/wsjsitemaps/wsj_article_types.xml
Sitemap: https://www.wsj.com/authors_sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.wsj.com/wsjsitemaps/wsj_article_list_sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.wsj.com/api-video/sitemaps/google/sitemap-google-news-video-wsj-en.asp
Sitemap: https://www.wsj.com/api-video/sitemaps/google/sitemap-google-video-wsj-en.asp
Sitemap: https://www.wsj.com/sitemaps/web/video/en/sitemap_video_en_index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.wsj.com/wsjsitemaps/wsj_pro_cb_google_news.xml
Sitemap: https://www.wsj.com/wsjsitemaps/wsj_pro_ai_google_news.xml
Sitemap: https://www.wsj.com/wsjsitemaps/wsj_pro_debt_google_news.xml
Sitemap: https://www.wsj.com/wsjsitemaps/wsj_pro_cyber_google_news.xml
Sitemap: https://www.wsj.com/wsjsitemaps/wsj_pro_vc_google_news.xml
Sitemap: https://www.wsj.com/wsjsitemaps/wsj_pro_pe_google_news.xml
Sitemap: https://www.wsj.com/coupons/sitemap.xml
Disallow: /article_email/*
Disallow: /user/*
Disallow: /pdf/documents/*
Disallow: /login/*
Disallow: /acct/*
Disallow: /msgcenter/*
Disallow: /setup/*
Disallow: /marketing/*
Disallow: /public/article/*
Disallow: /public/search/
Disallow: /public/search*
Disallow: /search*
Disallow: /public/page/wsj-x-marketing.html
Disallow: /public/page/news-media-marketing.html
Disallow: /public/page/0_0_WP_RT_MARKETING.html
Disallow: /news/articles/SB2*
Disallow: /news/articles/SB3*
Disallow: /news/articles/SB4*
Disallow: /articles/SB2*
Disallow: /articles/SB3*
Disallow: /articles/SB4*
Disallow: /article/AP*
Disallow: /article/BT-CO*
Disallow: /article/DN-CO*
Disallow: /article/PR-CO*
Disallow: /article/HUG*
Disallow: /video/search/*
Disallow: /articles/BT-CO*
Disallow: /articles/DN-CO*
Disallow: /articles/PR-CO*
Disallow: /news/articles/BT-CO*
Disallow: /news/articles/DN-CO*
Disallow: /news/articles/PR-CO*
Disallow: /catchup/*
Disallow: /articles/the-meaning-behind-juneteenth-11592413234
User-agent: MSNPTC/1.0
Disallow: /article_email/*
Disallow: /login/*
Disallow: /acct/*
Disallow: /msgcenter/*
Disallow: /setup/*
Disallow: /user/*
Disallow: /marketing/*
Disallow: /public/article/*
Disallow: /public/search/
Disallow: /public/search*
Disallow: /search*
Disallow: /public/page/wsj-x-marketing.html
Disallow: /public/page/news-media-marketing.html
Disallow: /public/page/0_0_WP_RT_MARKETING.html
Disallow: /news/articles/SB2*
Disallow: /news/articles/SB3*
Disallow: /news/articles/SB4*
Disallow: /articles/SB2*
Disallow: /articles/SB3*
Disallow: /articles/SB4*
Disallow: /article/AP*
Disallow: /article/BT-CO*
Disallow: /article/DN-CO*
Disallow: /article/PR-CO*
Disallow: /article/HUG*
Disallow: /video/search/*
Disallow: /articles/BT-CO*
Disallow: /articles/DN-CO*
Disallow: /articles/PR-CO*
Disallow: /news/articles/BT-CO*
Disallow: /news/articles/DN-CO*
Disallow: /news/articles/PR-CO*
User-agent: Twitterbot
Disallow: /amp/*
robots.txt versions
From Through State Version
2026-10-26 2026-10-27 ok 200 89210f23a625
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
2025-09-15 CC-MAIN-2025-38 www.wsj.com ok view allows allows unknown blocks allows unknown blocks 2024-09-16 CC-MAIN-2024-38 www.wsj.com ok view allows allows unknown blocks allows unknown blocks 2023-10-02 CC-MAIN-2023-40 www.wsj.com ok view blocks allows unknown allows allows unknown allows 2022-10-03 CC-MAIN-2022-40 www.wsj.com ok view allows allows unknown allows allows unknown allows 2021-09-27 CC-MAIN-2021-39 www.wsj.com ok view allows allows unknown allows allows unknown allows 2020-09-28 CC-MAIN-2020-40 wsj.com ok view allows allows unknown allows allows unknown allows 2019-09-23 CC-MAIN-2019-39 wsj.com ok view allows allows unknown allows allows unknown allows 2018-09-24 CC-MAIN-2018-39 www.wsj.com ok view allows allows unknown allows allows unknown allows 2017-10-23 CC-MAIN-2017-43 www.wsj.com ok view allows allows unknown allows allows unknown allows 2017-09-25 CC-MAIN-2017-39 www.wsj.com ok view allows allows unknown allows allows unknown allows 2017-07-24 CC-MAIN-2017-30 www.wsj.com ok view allows allows unknown allows allows unknown allows 2017-04-24 CC-MAIN-2017-17 wsj.com ok view allows allows unknown allows allows unknown allows 2017-01-23 CC-MAIN-2017-04 wsj.com ok view allows allows unknown allows allows unknown allows 2016-10-03 CC-MAIN-2016-40 wsj.com ok view allows allows unknown allows allows unknown allows 2016-09-05 CC-MAIN-2016-36 wsj.com ok view allows allows unknown allows allows unknown allows
Evidence
Every daily observation of wsj.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/wsj.com