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AI crawler access (latest snapshot, 13h 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 766 bytes · sha256 b4c41e10f617 · raw

# robots.txt file for YouTube
# Created in the distant future (the year 2000) after
# the robotic uprising of the mid 90's which wiped out all humans.

User-agent: Mediapartners-Google*
Disallow:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /comment
Disallow: /feeds/videos.xml
Disallow: /file_download
Disallow: /get_video
Disallow: /get_video_info
Disallow: /get_midroll_info
Disallow: /live_chat
Disallow: /login
Disallow: /qr
Disallow: /results
Disallow: /signup
Disallow: /t/terms
Disallow: /timedtext_video
Disallow: /verify_age
Disallow: /watch_ajax
Disallow: /watch_fragments_ajax
Disallow: /watch_popup
Disallow: /watch_queue_ajax
Disallow: /youtubei/

Sitemap: https://www.youtube.com/sitemaps/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.youtube.com/product/sitemap.xml

Change history

initial 13h ago snapshot
- First snapshot of robots.txt archived