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AI crawler access (latest snapshot, 5h ago)

⛔blocked restricted ✅allowed faded = inherited from the * wildcard group

✅GPTBot

✅ChatGPT-User

✅OAI-SearchBot

✅ClaudeBot

✅Claude-User

✅Claude-SearchBot

✅anthropic-ai

✅Claude-Web

✅CCBot

✅Google-Extended

✅Applebot-Extended

✅PerplexityBot

✅Perplexity-User

✅Bytespider

✅Amazonbot

✅FacebookBot

✅meta-externalagent

✅meta-externalfetcher

✅cohere-ai

✅AI2Bot

✅Diffbot

✅omgili

✅YouBot

✅DuckAssistBot

✅MistralAI-User

✅PanguBot

✅Timpibot

Current robots.txt 1720 bytes · sha256 6632a56ec3c4 · raw

# robots.txt for www.sophos.com (generated November 2025)

# Disallow internal or non-public endpoints (update these for content stack)
#User-agent: *
#Disallow: /admin/
#Disallow: /internal/
#Disallow: /private/
#Disallow: /error/

# Allow all other content, including documentation, downloads and product pages.
Allow: /

#  Allow the LLM policy file
Allow: /llms.txt

# Sitemaps for supported locales
Sitemap: https://www.sophos.com/en-us/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.sophos.com/en-gb/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.sophos.com/de-de/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.sophos.com/es-es/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.sophos.com/it-it/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.sophos.com/fr-fr/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.sophos.com/ja-jp/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.sophos.com/pt-br/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.sophos.com/zh-cn/sitemap.xml

# video sitemap
Sitemap: https://www.sophos.com/video-sitemap.xml


# Allow AI Search and Agent Crawlers

User-agent: Anthropic-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /

User-agent: BingAI
Allow: /

User-agent: BingPreview
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: CopilotBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: LlamaBot
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: xAI-Bot
Allow: /

User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /

User-agent: FirecrawlAgent 
Allow: / 

User-agent: AndiBot 
Allow: / 

User-agent: ExaBot 
Allow: / 

User-agent: PhindBot 
Allow: / 

User-agent: YouBot 
Allow: /

User-agent: PetalBot
Disallow: /

# Disallow specific LLM crawler
User-agent: DeepSeekBot
Disallow: /

Change history

initial 5h ago snapshot
- First snapshot of robots.txt archived