xiaohongshu.com: what it tells AI crawlers

On 27 October 2026, xiaohongshu.com's robots.txt fully blocked 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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robots.txt

ok (HTTP 200) · https://www.xiaohongshu.com:443/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-26 · sha256 d6ddcb993e8d4875… · view as recorded

The * group

blocks applies to every agent without its own group

Per AI bot, 2026-10-27

Other signals

robots.txt as recorded sha256 d6ddcb993e8d4875…

User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /
Allow: /worldcup26

User-agent: Baiduspider
User-agent: BaiduSpider-ads
User-agent: bingbot
User-agent: 360Spider
User-agent: Sogou web spider
User-agent: Sogou wap spider
User-agent: YisouSpider
Disallow: /
Allow: /$
Allow: /explore
Allow: /worldcup26
Allow: /download
Allow: /sitemap.xml
Allow: /sitemap-notes-
Allow: /sitemap-worldcup.xml
Allow: /robots.txt
Allow: /favicon.ico

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

Sitemap: https://www.xiaohongshu.com/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 xiaohongshu.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/xiaohongshu.com