Hulu / robots.txt
← back to hulu.com · change detected 27d ago (2026-07-08T02:36:30Z) · modified +132 −207
What changed
- Added rules for user-agent ‘360Spider’
- Added rules for user-agent ‘Adidxbot’
- Added rules for user-agent ‘AdsBot-Google’
- Added rules for user-agent ‘AdsBot-Google-Mobile’
- Added rules for user-agent ‘AdsBot-Google-Mobile-Apps’
- 🤖 AIAdded rules for AI crawler Amazonbot (Amazon)
- Added rules for user-agent ‘Applebot’
- 🤖 AIAdded rules for AI crawler Applebot-Extended (Apple)
- Added rules for user-agent ‘Baiduspider’
- Added rules for user-agent ‘Baiduspider-image’
- Added rules for user-agent ‘Baiduspider-mobile’
- Added rules for user-agent ‘Baiduspider-video’
- Added rules for user-agent ‘BingPreview’
- Added rules for user-agent ‘Botify’
- 🤖 AIAdded rules for AI crawler Bytespider (ByteDance)
- 🤖 AIAdded rules for AI crawler CCBot (Common Crawl)
- 🤖 AIAdded rules for AI crawler ChatGPT-User (OpenAI)
- 🤖 AIAdded rules for AI crawler Claude-SearchBot (Anthropic)
- 🤖 AIAdded rules for AI crawler Claude-User (Anthropic)
- 🤖 AIAdded rules for AI crawler ClaudeBot (Anthropic)
- Added rules for user-agent ‘Coc Coc’
- Added rules for user-agent ‘CriteoBot’
- Added rules for user-agent ‘DataForSeoBot’
- Added rules for user-agent ‘DeepSeekBot’
- Added rules for user-agent ‘DoubleVerifyBot’
- 🤖 AIAdded rules for AI crawler DuckAssistBot (DuckDuckGo)
- Added rules for user-agent ‘DuckDuckBot’
- Added rules for user-agent ‘Ecosia’
- Added rules for user-agent ‘FacebookAdPreview’
- Added rules for user-agent ‘facebookexternalhit’
- Added rules for user-agent ‘Facebot’
- Added rules for user-agent ‘Google-Ads-Creatives-Assistant’
- Added rules for user-agent ‘Google-Agent’
- Added rules for user-agent ‘Google-InspectionTool’
- Added rules for user-agent ‘Googlebot-Image’
- Added rules for user-agent ‘Googlebot-News’
- Added rules for user-agent ‘Googlebot-Video’
- Added rules for user-agent ‘GrokBot’
- Added rules for user-agent ‘ia_archiver’
- Added rules for user-agent ‘IAS-Crawler’
- Added rules for user-agent ‘instagram’
- Added rules for user-agent ‘KakaoTalk’
- Added rules for user-agent ‘Line’
- Added rules for user-agent ‘Mediapartners-Google’
- Added rules for user-agent ‘meta-externalads’
- 🤖 AIAdded rules for AI crawler meta-externalagent (Meta)
- 🤖 AIAdded rules for AI crawler meta-externalfetcher (Meta)
- Added rules for user-agent ‘Moatbot’
- Added rules for user-agent ‘NaverBot’
- 🤖 AIAdded rules for AI crawler OAI-SearchBot (OpenAI)
- ... and 296 more change(s)
Diff old (2026-06-26T13:23:15Z) → new (2026-07-08T02:36:30Z)
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| 1 | 1 | # See http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/norobots.html for documentation on how to use the robots.txt file |
| 2 | - # | |
| 3 | - # To ban all spiders from the entire site uncomment the next two lines: | |
| 4 | - # User-Agent: * | |
| 5 | - # Disallow: / | |
| 2 | + #robots.txt for www.hulu.com/ | |
| 6 | 3 | |
| 7 | - User-agent: blinkx | |
| 4 | + User-agent: * | |
| 8 | 5 | Disallow: / |
| 9 | 6 | |
| 10 | - User-agent: blinkx_ff_spider | |
| 11 | - Disallow: / | |
| 7 | + # SEO Bots | |
| 8 | + User-agent: Googlebot | |
| 9 | + User-agent: Googlebot-Video | |
| 10 | + User-agent: Googlebot-Image | |
| 11 | + User-agent: Googlebot-News | |
| 12 | + User-agent: Storebot-Google | |
| 13 | + User-agent: Google-InspectionTool | |
| 14 | + User-agent: Applebot | |
| 15 | + User-agent: Bingbot | |
| 16 | + User-agent: BingPreview | |
| 17 | + User-agent: Slurp | |
| 18 | + User-agent: DuckDuckBot | |
| 19 | + User-agent: Baiduspider | |
| 20 | + User-agent: Baiduspider-mobile | |
| 21 | + User-agent: Baiduspider-video | |
| 22 | + User-agent: Baiduspider-image | |
| 23 | + User-agent: NaverBot | |
| 24 | + User-agent: Y!J-WSC | |
| 25 | + User-agent: YJ-WSC | |
| 26 | + User-agent: Yeti | |
| 27 | + User-agent: Yandex | |
| 28 | + User-agent: YandexBot | |
| 29 | + User-agent: YandexMobileBot | |
| 30 | + User-agent: YandexVideo | |
| 31 | + User-agent: YandexWebmaster | |
| 32 | + User-agent: YandexSitelinks | |
| 33 | + User-agent: SeznamBot | |
| 34 | + User-agent: PetalBot | |
| 35 | + User-agent: Sogou | |
| 36 | + User-agent: Qwantify | |
| 37 | + User-agent: Ecosia | |
| 38 | + User-agent: 360Spider | |
| 39 | + User-agent: Coc Coc | |
| 40 | + User-agent: Qwantbot | |
| 41 | + # SEO Tools | |
| 42 | + User-agent: Botify | |
| 43 | + User-agent: SemrushBot | |
| 44 | + User-agent: Screaming Frog SEO Spider | |
| 45 | + User-agent: DataForSeoBot | |
| 46 | + User-agent: ia_archiver | |
| 47 | + # Social | |
| 48 | + User-agent: Facebot | |
| 49 | + User-agent: Twitterbot | |
| 50 | + User-agent: facebookexternalhit | |
| 51 | + User-agent: instagram | |
| 52 | + User-agent: Threads | |
| 53 | + User-agent: TikTok | |
| 54 | + User-agent: Pinterest | |
| 55 | + User-agent: Pinterestbot | |
| 56 | + User-agent: redditbot | |
| 57 | + User-agent: WhatsApp | |
| 58 | + User-agent: Snapchat | |
| 59 | + User-agent: TelegramBot | |
| 60 | + User-agent: Viber | |
| 61 | + User-agent: KakaoTalk | |
| 62 | + User-agent: Line | |
| 63 | + # Ad Bots | |
| 64 | + User-agent: AdsBot-Google | |
| 65 | + User-agent: AdsBot-Google-Mobile | |
| 66 | + User-agent: AdsBot-Google-Mobile-Apps | |
| 67 | + User-agent: Mediapartners-Google | |
| 68 | + User-agent: Google-Ads-Creatives-Assistant | |
| 69 | + User-agent: FacebookAdPreview | |
| 70 | + User-agent: meta-externalads | |
| 71 | + User-agent: Twitterbot | |
| 72 | + User-agent: Adidxbot | |
| 73 | + User-agent: Bytespider | |
| 74 | + User-agent: IAS-Crawler | |
| 75 | + User-agent: DoubleVerifyBot | |
| 76 | + User-agent: Moatbot | |
| 77 | + User-agent: TheTradeDesk | |
| 78 | + User-agent: TTDCrawler | |
| 79 | + User-agent: CriteoBot | |
| 80 | + # AI Bots | |
| 81 | + User-agent: GPTBot | |
| 82 | + User-agent: ChatGPT-User | |
| 83 | + User-agent: OAI-SearchBot | |
| 84 | + User-agent: Google-Extended | |
| 85 | + User-agent: ClaudeBot | |
| 86 | + User-agent: Claude-User | |
| 87 | + User-agent: Claude-SearchBot | |
| 88 | + User-agent: PerplexityBot | |
| 89 | + User-agent: Applebot-Extended | |
| 90 | + User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent | |
| 91 | + User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher | |
| 92 | + User-agent: Amazonbot | |
| 93 | + User-agent: CCBot | |
| 94 | + User-agent: Google-Agent | |
| 95 | + User-agent: GrokBot | |
| 96 | + User-agent: YouBot | |
| 97 | + User-agent: DuckAssistBot | |
| 98 | + User-agent: DeepSeekBot | |
| 99 | + Allow: / | |
| 12 | 100 | |
| 13 | - User-agent: bingbot | |
| 101 | + Disallow: /activities | |
| 102 | + Disallow: /activity_feeds | |
| 103 | + Disallow: /api | |
| 104 | + Disallow: /browse | |
| 105 | + Disallow: /channels | |
| 106 | + Disallow: /discussions | |
| 107 | + Disallow: /email | |
| 108 | + Disallow: /exstack | |
| 109 | + Disallow: /facebook_canvas | |
| 110 | + Disallow: /feed | |
| 111 | + Disallow: /highest_rated | |
| 112 | + Disallow: /labs | |
| 14 | 113 | Disallow: /manifest.json |
| 114 | + Disallow: /masthead | |
| 115 | + Disallow: /playlists | |
| 116 | + Disallow: /plus | |
| 117 | + Disallow: /popular | |
| 118 | + Disallow: /posts | |
| 119 | + Disallow: /profiles | |
| 120 | + Disallow: /r | |
| 121 | + Disallow: /recent | |
| 122 | + Disallow: /released | |
| 123 | + Disallow: /reviews | |
| 124 | + Disallow: /rules | |
| 125 | + Disallow: /search | |
| 126 | + Disallow: /social | |
| 127 | + Disallow: /start | |
| 128 | + Disallow: /support | |
| 129 | + Disallow: /*.swf | |
| 130 | + Disallow: /tempo | |
| 131 | + Disallow: /unsubscribe_email | |
| 132 | + Disallow: /users | |
| 133 | + Disallow: /videos | |
| 134 | + Disallow: /watch | |
| 135 | + Disallow: /widget | |
| 15 | 136 | |
| 16 | - User-agent: Googlebot | |
| 17 | - Allow: /api/2.0/static/page_content | |
| 18 | - Disallow: /beta | |
| 19 | - Disallow: /_qos/ | |
| 20 | - Disallow: /account/authenticate | |
| 21 | - Disallow: /activity_feeds/ | |
| 22 | - Disallow: /activities/ | |
| 23 | - Disallow: /api/2.0/ | |
| 24 | - Disallow: /channels/ | |
| 25 | - Disallow: /discussions/search | |
| 26 | - Disallow: /email$ | |
| 27 | - Disallow: /email? | |
| 28 | - Disallow: /exstack/ | |
| 29 | - Disallow: /facebook_canvas/ | |
| 30 | - Disallow: /feed/activity/ | |
| 31 | - Disallow: /feed/history/ | |
| 32 | - Disallow: /feed/queue/ | |
| 33 | - Disallow: /feed/search | |
| 34 | - Disallow: /feed/search/ | |
| 35 | - Disallow: /feed/review/ | |
| 36 | - Disallow: /highest_rated | |
| 37 | - Disallow: /highest_rated/ | |
| 38 | - Disallow: /labs/caption-search | |
| 39 | - Disallow: /masthead$ | |
| 40 | - Disallow: /masthead? | |
| 41 | - Disallow: /masthead/ | |
| 42 | - Disallow: /playlists/flag/ | |
| 43 | - Disallow: /plus/check_hold | |
| 44 | - Disallow: /plus/check_psn | |
| 45 | - Disallow: /plus/invite_request | |
| 46 | - Disallow: /plus/signup | |
| 47 | - Disallow: /plus/signup/ | |
| 48 | - Disallow: /plus/vip | |
| 49 | - Disallow: /popular$ | |
| 50 | - Disallow: /popular? | |
| 51 | - Disallow: /popular/ | |
| 52 | - Disallow: /posts/flag/ | |
| 53 | - Disallow: /posts/list/ | |
| 54 | - Disallow: /posts/item/ | |
| 55 | - Disallow: /profiles/ | |
| 56 | - Disallow: /r/ | |
| 57 | - Disallow: /recent$ | |
| 58 | - Disallow: /recent? | |
| 59 | - Disallow: /recent/ | |
| 60 | - Disallow: /released$ | |
| 61 | - Disallow: /released? | |
| 62 | - Disallow: /released/ | |
| 63 | - Disallow: /reviews/update_page | |
| 64 | - Disallow: /rules$ | |
| 65 | - Disallow: /rules? | |
| 66 | - Disallow: /search? | |
| 67 | - Disallow: /search/ | |
| 68 | - Disallow: /social/ | |
| 69 | - Disallow: /support/geofilter | |
| 70 | - Disallow: /support/search | |
| 71 | - Disallow: /support/streaming | |
| 72 | - Disallow: /support/vote | |
| 73 | - Disallow: /users/ | |
| 74 | - Disallow: /feed/ | |
| 75 | - Disallow: /videos/expander | |
| 76 | - Disallow: /videos/search | |
| 77 | - Disallow: /videos/search/ | |
| 78 | - Disallow: /videos/show_trailer | |
| 79 | - Disallow: /videos/slider | |
| 80 | - Disallow: /videos/transcripts/ | |
| 81 | - Disallow: /widget/player/ | |
| 82 | - Disallow: /browse/alphabetical/feature_films | |
| 83 | - Disallow: /*.swf$ | |
| 84 | - Disallow: /unsubscribe_email/ | |
| 85 | 137 | |
| 86 | - User-agent: Google-Extended | |
| 87 | - Disallow: / | |
| 138 | + # Announce Sitemap | |
| 139 | + Sitemap: https://www.hulu.com/sitemap_index.xml | |
| 88 | 140 | |
| 89 | - User-agent: GPTBot | |
| 90 | - Disallow: / | |
| 91 | - | |
| 92 | - User-agent: * | |
| 93 | - Allow: /api/2.0/static/page_content | |
| 94 | - Disallow: /_qos/ | |
| 95 | - Disallow: /account/authenticate | |
| 96 | - Disallow: /activity_feeds/ | |
| 97 | - Disallow: /activities/ | |
| 98 | - Disallow: /api/2.0/ | |
| 99 | - Disallow: /channels/ | |
| 100 | - Disallow: /discussions/search | |
| 101 | - Disallow: /email$ | |
| 102 | - Disallow: /email? | |
| 103 | - Disallow: /exstack/ | |
| 104 | - Disallow: /facebook_canvas/ | |
| 105 | - Disallow: /feed/activity/ | |
| 106 | - Disallow: /feed/history/ | |
| 107 | - Disallow: /feed/queue/ | |
| 108 | - Disallow: /feed/search | |
| 109 | - Disallow: /feed/search/ | |
| 110 | - Disallow: /feed/review/ | |
| 111 | - Disallow: /highest_rated | |
| 112 | - Disallow: /highest_rated/ | |
| 113 | - Disallow: /labs/caption-search | |
| 114 | - Disallow: /masthead$ | |
| 115 | - Disallow: /masthead? | |
| 116 | - Disallow: /masthead/ | |
| 117 | - Disallow: /mozart/ | |
| 118 | - Disallow: /playlists/flag/ | |
| 119 | - Disallow: /plus/check_hold | |
| 120 | - Disallow: /plus/check_psn | |
| 121 | - Disallow: /plus/invite_request | |
| 122 | - Disallow: /plus/signup | |
| 123 | - Disallow: /plus/signup/ | |
| 124 | - Disallow: /plus/vip | |
| 125 | - Disallow: /popular$ | |
| 126 | - Disallow: /popular? | |
| 127 | - Disallow: /popular/ | |
| 128 | - Disallow: /posts/flag/ | |
| 129 | - Disallow: /posts/list/ | |
| 130 | - Disallow: /posts/item/ | |
| 131 | - Disallow: /profiles/ | |
| 132 | - Disallow: /r/ | |
| 133 | - Disallow: /recent$ | |
| 134 | - Disallow: /recent? | |
| 135 | - Disallow: /recent/ | |
| 136 | - Disallow: /released$ | |
| 137 | - Disallow: /released? | |
| 138 | - Disallow: /released/ | |
| 139 | - Disallow: /reviews/update_page | |
| 140 | - Disallow: /rules$ | |
| 141 | - Disallow: /rules? | |
| 142 | - Disallow: /search? | |
| 143 | - Disallow: /search/ | |
| 144 | - Disallow: /social/ | |
| 145 | - Disallow: /start/armstrong-1mo$ | |
| 146 | - Disallow: /start/armstrong-1mo? | |
| 147 | - Disallow: /start/devices$ | |
| 148 | - Disallow: /start/devices? | |
| 149 | - Disallow: /start/disney-hulu-bundle-reacq$ | |
| 150 | - Disallow: /start/disney-hulu-bundle-reacq? | |
| 151 | - Disallow: /start/ellen$ | |
| 152 | - Disallow: /start/ellen? | |
| 153 | - Disallow: /start/email-reacq-sp25$ | |
| 154 | - Disallow: /start/email-reacq-sp25? | |
| 155 | - Disallow: /start/fyber$ | |
| 156 | - Disallow: /start/fyber? | |
| 157 | - Disallow: /start/gci-1mo$ | |
| 158 | - Disallow: /start/gci-1mo? | |
| 159 | - Disallow: /start/get1month$ | |
| 160 | - Disallow: /start/get1month? | |
| 161 | - Disallow: /start/gifting$ | |
| 162 | - Disallow: /start/gifting? | |
| 163 | - Disallow: /start/gifting_terms$ | |
| 164 | - Disallow: /start/gifting_terms? | |
| 165 | - Disallow: /start/klay$ | |
| 166 | - Disallow: /start/klay? | |
| 167 | - Disallow: /start/klay-livetv$ | |
| 168 | - Disallow: /start/klay-livetv? | |
| 169 | - Disallow: /start/lg$ | |
| 170 | - Disallow: /start/lg? | |
| 171 | - Disallow: /start/lgtv$ | |
| 172 | - Disallow: /start/lgtv? | |
| 173 | - Disallow: /start/microsoft$ | |
| 174 | - Disallow: /start/microsoft? | |
| 175 | - Disallow: /start/ps3$ | |
| 176 | - Disallow: /start/ps3? | |
| 177 | - Disallow: /start/ps4$ | |
| 178 | - Disallow: /start/ps4? | |
| 179 | - Disallow: /start/ps5$ | |
| 180 | - Disallow: /start/ps5? | |
| 181 | - Disallow: /start/signup-dtp$ | |
| 182 | - Disallow: /start/signup-dtp? | |
| 183 | - Disallow: /start/twdc-employee$ | |
| 184 | - Disallow: /start/twdc-employee? | |
| 185 | - Disallow: /start/microsoft$ | |
| 186 | - Disallow: /start/microsoft? | |
| 187 | - Disallow: /start/wow$ | |
| 188 | - Disallow: /start/wow? | |
| 189 | - Disallow: /start/wow-1mo$ | |
| 190 | - Disallow: /start/wow-1mo? | |
| 191 | - Disallow: /start/xbox$ | |
| 192 | - Disallow: /start/xbox? | |
| 193 | - Disallow: /start/wow$ | |
| 194 | - Disallow: /start/wow? | |
| 195 | - Disallow: /start/viziotvsmartcast$ | |
| 196 | - Disallow: /start/viziotvsmartcast? | |
| 197 | - Disallow: /support/geofilter | |
| 198 | - Disallow: /support/search | |
| 199 | - Disallow: /support/streaming | |
| 200 | - Disallow: /support/vote | |
| 201 | - Disallow: /tempo/ | |
| 202 | - Disallow: /tempo-fallback/ | |
| 203 | - Disallow: /users/ | |
| 204 | - Disallow: /feed/ | |
| 205 | - Disallow: /videos/expander | |
| 206 | - Disallow: /videos/search | |
| 207 | - Disallow: /videos/search/ | |
| 208 | - Disallow: /videos/show_trailer | |
| 209 | - Disallow: /videos/slider | |
| 210 | - Disallow: /videos/transcripts/ | |
| 211 | - Disallow: /widget/player/ | |
| 212 | - Disallow: /browse/alphabetical/feature_films | |
| 213 | - Disallow: /*.swf$ | |
| 214 | - Disallow: /unsubscribe_email | |
| 215 | - | |
| 216 | - Sitemap: https://www.hulu.com/sitemap_index.xml | |
| 141 | + # Source: site-static |