xerox.com: what it tells AI crawlers

On 27 October 2026, xerox.com's robots.txt allowed all of GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, 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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top 10k (Tranco)
robots.txt
ok (HTTP 200) · https://www.xerox.com/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-27 · sha256 105f24ae8a9451bc… · view as recorded
The * group
allows applies to every agent without its own group

Per AI bot, 2026-10-27

User agentVerdictHow
GPTBotallowsthrough the * group
OAI-SearchBotallowsthrough the * group
ChatGPT-Userallowsthrough the * group
ClaudeBotallowsthrough the * group
Claude-SearchBotallowsthrough the * group
Claude-Userallowsthrough the * group
PerplexityBotallowsthrough the * group
Perplexity-Userallowsthrough the * group
Googlebotallowsthrough the * group
Google-Extendedallowsthrough the * group
Applebot-Extendedallowsthrough the * group
CCBotallowsthrough the * group
Bytespiderallowsthrough the * group
Meta-ExternalAgentallowsthrough the * group
Amazonbotallowsthrough the * group

Other signals

Publishes /llms.txtno
Publishes /ai.txtno
Publishes /.well-known/tdmrep.jsonno
Reserves TDM rights (TDMRep file, header or meta)no
Declares Content Signals (robots.txt or header)no
Says ai-train=no in a Content Signalno
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 directivesno
Refused our fetcher (403 / challenge)no

robots.txt as recorded sha256 105f24ae8a9451bc…

# Basic robots.txt file for Xerox.com

User-agent: *
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /getfile/
Disallow: /go/xrx/XSL/
Disallow: /go/xrx/br/
Disallow: /go/xrx/cache_warmup/
Disallow: /go/xrx/ec/
Disallow: /go/xrx/fsma/
Disallow: /go/xrx/knowledge/
Disallow: /go/xrx/lib/
Disallow: /go/xrx/reg/
Disallow: /go/xrx/sysadmin/
Disallow: /go/xrx/wizard/
Disallow: /go/xrx/template/xrx_Error.jsp
Disallow: /go/xrx/template/009.jsp?view=Feature&ed_name=Promo_Carbonless_Web_blast
Disallow: /go/xrx/template/009.jsp?ed_name=Promo_Carbonless_Web_blast&view=Feature
Disallow: /pdf/
Disallow: /sso/
Disallow: /xrx-search/
Disallow: /NULL
Disallow: /downloads/usa/en/e/End_Customer_Pres_5_Habits.pdf
Disallow: /perl-bin/formeng.pl?form=twitter_handle_registration
Disallow: /perl-bin/formeng.pl?form=blog_request
Disallow: /perl-bin/formeng.pl?form=business_facebook_page_registration
Disallow: /perl-bin/formeng.pl?form=video_channel_playlist_registration
Disallow: /about-xerox/sponsorship/buffalo-bills/*photos/
Disallow: *mobile-orph*
Disallow: /en-ae/search
Disallow: /de-at/search
Disallow: /es-ar/search
Disallow: /fr-be/search
Disallow: /nl-be/search
Disallow: /pt-br/search
Disallow: /en-ca/search
Disallow: /fr-ca/search
Disallow: /de-ch/search
Disallow: /fr-ch/search
Disallow: /es-cl/search
Disallow: /es-co/search
Disallow: /de-de/search
Disallow: /da-dk/search
Disallow: /es-ec/search
Disallow: /en-eg/search
Disallow: /es-es/search
Disallow: /fi-fi/search
Disallow: /fr-fr/search
Disallow: /en-gb/search
Disallow: /el-gr/search
Disallow: /en-gt/search
Disallow: /es-gt/search
Disallow: /hu-hu/search
Disallow: /en-ie/search
Disallow: /en-il/search
Disallow: /en-in/search
Disallow: /it-it/search
Disallow: /es-mx/search
Disallow: /nl-nl/search
Disallow: /no-no/search
Disallow: /es-pe/search
Disallow: /pl-pl/search
Disallow: /pt-pt/search
Disallow: /es-py/search
Disallow: /en-sa/search
Disallow: /sv-se/search
Disallow: /en-sv/search
Disallow: /es-sv/search
Disallow: /tr-tr/search
Disallow: /en-us/search
Disallow: /es-uy/search
Disallow: /es-ve/search
Disallow: /en-za/search

User-agent: vspider
Disallow: /go/xrx/
Disallow: /downloads/
Disallow: /Static_HTML/
Disallow: /gwa/
Disallow: /supplies/
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /getfile/
Disallow: /pdf/
Disallow: /sso/
Disallow: /xrx-search/

#467

robots.txt versions

FromThroughStateVersion
2026-10-272026-10-27ok 200105f24ae8a94diff with previous
2026-10-262026-10-26ok 200c4ec5584aa4a

Timeline of changes

DateWhat changed
2026-10-27robots.txt changed

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.

CrawlHostStateGPTBotOAI-SearchBotChatGPT-UserClaudeBotClaude-SearchBotClaude-UserPerplexityBot
2026-09-21 CC-MAIN-2026-39www.xerox.comfetch-blockedunknownunknownunknownunknownunknownunknownunknown
2025-09-15 CC-MAIN-2025-38www.xerox.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2024-09-16 CC-MAIN-2024-38www.xerox.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2023-10-02 CC-MAIN-2023-40www.xerox.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2022-10-03 CC-MAIN-2022-40www.xerox.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2021-09-27 CC-MAIN-2021-39www.xerox.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2020-09-28 CC-MAIN-2020-40www.xerox.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2019-09-23 CC-MAIN-2019-39www.xerox.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2018-09-24 CC-MAIN-2018-39www.xerox.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2017-09-25 CC-MAIN-2017-39www.xerox.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2017-01-23 CC-MAIN-2017-04www.xerox.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2016-10-03 CC-MAIN-2016-40www.xerox.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2016-09-05 CC-MAIN-2016-36www.xerox.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows

Evidence

Every daily observation of xerox.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/xerox.com