# Does adobe.com allow GPTBot? robots.txt as of 2026-09-06

## In short

On 2026-09-06 the robots.txt of adobe.com resolved 19 AI crawler tokens: 19 allowed for / and 0 disallowed for /.

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Domain | adobe.com |
| AI crawler tokens resolved | 19 |
| Allowed for / | 19 |
| Disallowed for / | 0 |
| robots.txt | robots.txt present, 10199 bytes |
| Checks that ran | edge, llms, optout, robots, signals, structured, timing |
| robots.txt read (tier A) | 2026-09-06 |
| Full check (tier B) | 2026-09-06 |
| Last verified | 2026-09-06 |

## Every AI crawler token in the registry

| Crawler | Vendor | Observation | Evidence | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | OpenAI | allowed for / | robots.txt has a User-agent: * group with no rule matching / , so / is allowed | 2026-09-06 |
| ClaudeBot | Anthropic | allowed for / | robots.txt has a User-agent: * group with no rule matching / , so / is allowed | 2026-09-06 |
| PerplexityBot | Perplexity | allowed for / | robots.txt has a User-agent: * group with no rule matching / , so / is allowed | 2026-09-06 |
| OAI-SearchBot | OpenAI | allowed for / | robots.txt has a User-agent: * group with no rule matching / , so / is allowed | 2026-09-06 |
| CCBot | Common Crawl Foundation | allowed for / | robots.txt has a User-agent: * group with no rule matching / , so / is allowed | 2026-09-06 |
| Bytespider | ByteDance | allowed for / | robots.txt has a User-agent: * group with no rule matching / , so / is allowed | 2026-09-06 |
| Googlebot | Google | allowed for / | robots.txt has a User-agent: Googlebot group with no rule matching / , so / is allowed | 2026-09-06 |
| ChatGPT-User | OpenAI | allowed for / | robots.txt has a User-agent: * group with no rule matching / , so / is allowed | 2026-09-06 |
| Claude-User | Anthropic | allowed for / | robots.txt has a User-agent: * group with no rule matching / , so / is allowed | 2026-09-06 |
| Claude-SearchBot | Anthropic | allowed for / | robots.txt has a User-agent: * group with no rule matching / , so / is allowed | 2026-09-06 |
| Perplexity-User | Perplexity | allowed for / | robots.txt has a User-agent: * group with no rule matching / , so / is allowed | 2026-09-06 |
| anthropic-ai | Anthropic | allowed for / | robots.txt has a User-agent: * group with no rule matching / , so / is allowed | 2026-09-06 |
| Bingbot | Microsoft | allowed for / | robots.txt has a User-agent: * group with no rule matching / , so / is allowed | 2026-09-06 |
| Applebot | Apple | allowed for / | robots.txt has a User-agent: * group with no rule matching / , so / is allowed | 2026-09-06 |
| Amazonbot | Amazon | allowed for / | robots.txt has a User-agent: * group with no rule matching / , so / is allowed | 2026-09-06 |
| meta-externalagent | Meta | allowed for / | robots.txt has a User-agent: * group with no rule matching / , so / is allowed | 2026-09-06 |
| DuckAssistBot | DuckDuckGo | allowed for / | robots.txt has a User-agent: * group with no rule matching / , so / is allowed | 2026-09-06 |
| Applebot-Extended | Apple | allowed for / | robots.txt has a User-agent: * group with no rule matching / , so / is allowed | 2026-09-06 |
| Google-Extended | Google | allowed for / | robots.txt has a User-agent: * group with no rule matching / , so / is allowed | 2026-09-06 |

## The robots.txt reading itself

| Observation | Value | Evidence | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|
| agents-summary | AI crawler rules: 19 allowed, 0 disallowed | 19 crawler tokens resolved against https://adobe.com/robots.txt (HTTP 200, 10199 bytes) at 2026-09-06T23:46:30Z | 2026-09-06 |
| file | robots.txt present, 10199 bytes | GET https://adobe.com/robots.txt at 2026-09-06T23:46:30Z returned HTTP 200, 10199 bytes, content type text/plain, 7 user agent group(s) | 2026-09-06 |
| sitemap-declared | 9 sitemap(s) declared in robots.txt | line 213: "Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/cc-product.index.xml"; line 214: "Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/sitemap-index.xml"; line 215: "Sitemap: https://www.adobe.com/acrobat/sitemap-index.xml" | 2026-09-06 |

## edge

- agent:gptbot: no answer to this one request carrying the token GPTBot. Evidence: baseline GET https://www.adobe.com/ as BikooshBot/1.0 (+https://bikoosh.com/bot) returned HTTP 200; the same request with the User Agent "BikooshBot/1.0 (+https://bikoosh.com/bot) ua-probe/GPTBot" returned no answer (ReadTimeout: The read operation timed out), observed 2026-09-06T23:46:30Z. Observed 2026-09-06.
  User Agent sent: BikooshBot/1.0 (+https://bikoosh.com/bot) ua-probe/GPTBot
  Limitation: this test appends a labelled marker to our own honest User Agent, it never impersonates another agent. Rules keyed to an exact User Agent string, or to a vendor's IP ranges, are invisible to this method and are neither confirmed nor ruled out.
- baseline: home page answered HTTP 200 to our own User Agent. Evidence: GET https://www.adobe.com/ as BikooshBot/1.0 (+https://bikoosh.com/bot) at 2026-09-06T23:46:30Z: HTTP 200, 44845 bytes. Observed 2026-09-06.
  User Agent sent: BikooshBot/1.0 (+https://bikoosh.com/bot)
  Limitation: this test appends a labelled marker to our own honest User Agent, it never impersonates another agent. Rules keyed to an exact User Agent string, or to a vendor's IP ranges, are invisible to this method and are neither confirmed nor ruled out.

## llms

- llms-full.txt: llms-full.txt not present (HTTP 404). Evidence: GET https://adobe.com/llms-full.txt at 2026-09-06T23:46:30Z returned HTTP 404. Observed 2026-09-06.
- llms.txt: llms.txt present, 10499 bytes. Evidence: GET https://adobe.com/llms.txt at 2026-09-06T23:46:30Z returned HTTP 200, 10499 bytes, content type text/plain; charset=UTF-8. Observed 2026-09-06.

## optout

- signal: no opt out signal published. Evidence: TXT _bikoosh-aeo.adobe.com carried no opt out and GET https://adobe.com/.well-known/bikoosh-aeo-optout published none either (it answered HTTP 404) at 2026-09-06T23:46:30Z. Observed 2026-09-06.

## signals

- canonical: canonical link: https://www.adobe.com/. Evidence: link rel=canonical in the HTML of https://www.adobe.com/ at 2026-09-06T23:46:30Z: "https://www.adobe.com/". Observed 2026-09-06.
- checker-stopped: our checker stopped early at this site's request. Evidence: www.adobe.com answered no answer (ReadTimeout: The read operation timed out) 2 times in a row; our checker stopped rather than keep knocking (observed 2026-09-06T23:46:30Z). Observed 2026-09-06.
- noai: no noai declaration. Evidence: neither the meta tags nor the X-Robots-Tag header of https://www.adobe.com/ carried noai at 2026-09-06T23:46:30Z. Observed 2026-09-06.
- noimageai: no noimageai declaration. Evidence: neither the meta tags nor the X-Robots-Tag header of https://www.adobe.com/ carried noimageai at 2026-09-06T23:46:30Z. Observed 2026-09-06.
- robots-meta: no robots meta tag. Evidence: no meta name=robots tag in the HTML of https://www.adobe.com/ at 2026-09-06T23:46:30Z (36 meta tags read). Observed 2026-09-06.
- sitemap: declared sitemap answered HTTP 200. Evidence: HEAD https://www.adobe.com/cc-product.index.xml at 2026-09-06T23:46:30Z returned HTTP 200, content type application/xml. Observed 2026-09-06.
- tdm-reservation: no tdm-reservation header. Evidence: no tdm-reservation header on https://www.adobe.com/ at 2026-09-06T23:46:30Z. Observed 2026-09-06.
- x-robots-tag: no X-Robots-Tag header. Evidence: response headers of https://www.adobe.com/ at 2026-09-06T23:46:30Z: no X-Robots-Tag header present. Observed 2026-09-06.

## structured

- json-ld: 1 JSON-LD block(s) in the home page HTML. Evidence: script type=application/ld+json found at 2026-09-06T23:46:30Z on https://www.adobe.com/: "{ "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://www.adobe.com/#website", "url": "https://www.adobe.com", "name": "Adobe",". Observed 2026-09-06.
- json-ld-types: Corporation, ImageObject, Organization, PostalAddress, WebSite. Evidence: @type values parsed from 1 JSON-LD block(s) on https://www.adobe.com/ at 2026-09-06T23:46:30Z. Observed 2026-09-06.

## timing

- page-bytes: home page HTML 25 to 50 KB. Evidence: GET https://www.adobe.com/ at 2026-09-06T23:46:30Z transferred 44845 bytes of HTML, content type text/html; charset=utf-8 (the value is banded, the exact byte count is here). Observed 2026-09-06.
- response-ms: home page answered in under 200 ms. Evidence: GET https://www.adobe.com/ as BikooshBot/1.0 (+https://bikoosh.com/bot) at 2026-09-06T23:46:30Z: HTTP 200 in 98 ms (the value is banded so that ordinary network jitter is not reported as a change). Observed 2026-09-06.

Robots.txt history: https://bikoosh.com/aeo/site/adobe.com/history

Limitation: this test appends a labelled marker to our own honest User Agent, it never impersonates another agent. Rules keyed to an exact User Agent string, or to a vendor's IP ranges, are invisible to this method and are neither confirmed nor ruled out.

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