# Does zoom.com allow GPTBot? robots.txt as of 2026-09-12

## In short

On 2026-09-12 the robots.txt of zoom.com resolved 19 AI crawler tokens: 19 allowed for / and 0 disallowed for /.

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Domain | zoom.com |
| AI crawler tokens resolved | 19 |
| Allowed for / | 19 |
| Disallowed for / | 0 |
| robots.txt | robots.txt present, 2005 bytes |
| Checks that ran | edge, llms, optout, render, robots, signals, structured, timing |
| robots.txt read (tier A) | 2026-09-12 |
| Full check (tier B) | 2026-09-12 |
| Last verified | 2026-09-12 |

## 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 | 2026-09-12 |
| ClaudeBot | Anthropic | allowed for / | robots.txt has a User-agent: * group with no rule matching / , so / is allowed | 2026-09-12 |
| PerplexityBot | Perplexity | allowed for / | robots.txt has a User-agent: * group with no rule matching / , so / is allowed | 2026-09-12 |
| OAI-SearchBot | OpenAI | allowed for / | robots.txt has a User-agent: * group with no rule matching / , so / is allowed | 2026-09-12 |
| CCBot | Common Crawl Foundation | allowed for / | robots.txt has a User-agent: * group with no rule matching / , so / is allowed | 2026-09-12 |
| Bytespider | ByteDance | allowed for / | robots.txt has a User-agent: * group with no rule matching / , so / is allowed | 2026-09-12 |
| Googlebot | Google | allowed for / | robots.txt has a User-agent: Googlebot group with no rule matching / , so / is allowed | 2026-09-12 |
| ChatGPT-User | OpenAI | allowed for / | robots.txt has a User-agent: * group with no rule matching / , so / is allowed | 2026-09-12 |
| Claude-User | Anthropic | allowed for / | robots.txt has a User-agent: * group with no rule matching / , so / is allowed | 2026-09-12 |
| Claude-SearchBot | Anthropic | allowed for / | robots.txt has a User-agent: * group with no rule matching / , so / is allowed | 2026-09-12 |
| Perplexity-User | Perplexity | allowed for / | robots.txt has a User-agent: * group with no rule matching / , so / is allowed | 2026-09-12 |
| anthropic-ai | Anthropic | allowed for / | robots.txt has a User-agent: * group with no rule matching / , so / is allowed | 2026-09-12 |
| Bingbot | Microsoft | allowed for / | robots.txt has a User-agent: * group with no rule matching / , so / is allowed | 2026-09-12 |
| Applebot | Apple | allowed for / | robots.txt has a User-agent: * group with no rule matching / , so / is allowed | 2026-09-12 |
| Amazonbot | Amazon | allowed for / | robots.txt has a User-agent: * group with no rule matching / , so / is allowed | 2026-09-12 |
| meta-externalagent | Meta | allowed for / | robots.txt has a User-agent: * group with no rule matching / , so / is allowed | 2026-09-12 |
| DuckAssistBot | DuckDuckGo | allowed for / | robots.txt has a User-agent: * group with no rule matching / , so / is allowed | 2026-09-12 |
| Applebot-Extended | Apple | allowed for / | robots.txt has a User-agent: * group with no rule matching / , so / is allowed | 2026-09-12 |
| Google-Extended | Google | allowed for / | robots.txt has a User-agent: * group with no rule matching / , so / is allowed | 2026-09-12 |

## The robots.txt reading itself

| Observation | Value | Evidence | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|
| agents-summary | AI crawler rules: 19 allowed, 0 disallowed | 19 crawler tokens resolved against https://zoom.com/robots.txt (HTTP 200, 2005 bytes) at 2026-09-12T09:42:02Z | 2026-09-12 |
| file | robots.txt present, 2005 bytes | GET https://zoom.com/robots.txt at 2026-09-12T09:42:02Z returned HTTP 200, 2005 bytes, content type text/plain, 13 user agent group(s) | 2026-09-12 |
| sitemap-declared | 1 sitemap(s) declared in robots.txt | line 89: "Sitemap: https://zoom.us/sitemap.xml" | 2026-09-12 |

## edge

- agent:bytespider: answers the same as the baseline for the token Bytespider. Evidence: baseline GET https://www.zoom.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/Bytespider" returned HTTP 200, 48000 bytes, observed 2026-09-12T09:42:02Z. Observed 2026-09-12.
  User Agent sent: BikooshBot/1.0 (+https://bikoosh.com/bot) ua-probe/Bytespider
  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.
- agent:ccbot: answers the same as the baseline for the token CCBot. Evidence: baseline GET https://www.zoom.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/CCBot" returned HTTP 200, 48000 bytes, observed 2026-09-12T09:42:02Z. Observed 2026-09-12.
  User Agent sent: BikooshBot/1.0 (+https://bikoosh.com/bot) ua-probe/CCBot
  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.
- agent:claudebot: answers the same as the baseline for the token ClaudeBot. Evidence: baseline GET https://www.zoom.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/ClaudeBot" returned HTTP 200, 48000 bytes, observed 2026-09-12T09:42:02Z. Observed 2026-09-12.
  User Agent sent: BikooshBot/1.0 (+https://bikoosh.com/bot) ua-probe/ClaudeBot
  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.
- agent:gptbot: answers the same as the baseline for the token GPTBot. Evidence: baseline GET https://www.zoom.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 HTTP 200, 48000 bytes, observed 2026-09-12T09:42:02Z. Observed 2026-09-12.
  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.
- agent:oai-searchbot: answers the same as the baseline for the token OAI-SearchBot. Evidence: baseline GET https://www.zoom.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/OAI-SearchBot" returned HTTP 200, 48000 bytes, observed 2026-09-12T09:42:02Z. Observed 2026-09-12.
  User Agent sent: BikooshBot/1.0 (+https://bikoosh.com/bot) ua-probe/OAI-SearchBot
  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.
- agent:perplexitybot: answers the same as the baseline for the token PerplexityBot. Evidence: baseline GET https://www.zoom.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/PerplexityBot" returned HTTP 200, 48000 bytes, observed 2026-09-12T09:42:02Z. Observed 2026-09-12.
  User Agent sent: BikooshBot/1.0 (+https://bikoosh.com/bot) ua-probe/PerplexityBot
  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.zoom.com as BikooshBot/1.0 (+https://bikoosh.com/bot) at 2026-09-12T09:42:02Z: HTTP 200, 300325 bytes. Observed 2026-09-12.
  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 307). Evidence: GET https://zoom.com/llms-full.txt at 2026-09-12T09:42:02Z returned HTTP 307. Observed 2026-09-12.
- llms.txt: llms.txt not present (HTTP 307). Evidence: GET https://zoom.com/llms.txt at 2026-09-12T09:42:02Z returned HTTP 307. Observed 2026-09-12.

## optout

- signal: no opt out signal published. Evidence: TXT _bikoosh-aeo.zoom.com carried no opt out and GET https://zoom.com/.well-known/bikoosh-aeo-optout published none either (it answered HTTP 307) at 2026-09-12T09:42:03Z. Observed 2026-09-12.

## render

- main-content: main content is present in the raw HTML. Evidence: visible text of the raw HTML 11815 characters versus 5762 characters after rendering https://www.zoom.com in headless Chromium at 2026-09-12T09:42:02Z: 205.1 percent, threshold 20 percent. Observed 2026-09-12.

## signals

- canonical: canonical link: https://www.zoom.com. Evidence: link rel=canonical in the HTML of https://www.zoom.com at 2026-09-12T09:42:02Z: "https://www.zoom.com". Observed 2026-09-12.
- noai: no noai declaration. Evidence: neither the meta tags nor the X-Robots-Tag header of https://www.zoom.com carried noai at 2026-09-12T09:42:02Z. Observed 2026-09-12.
- noimageai: no noimageai declaration. Evidence: neither the meta tags nor the X-Robots-Tag header of https://www.zoom.com carried noimageai at 2026-09-12T09:42:02Z. Observed 2026-09-12.
- robots-meta: robots meta tag present: robots=index,follow. Evidence: in the HTML of https://www.zoom.com at 2026-09-12T09:42:02Z: "robots=index,follow". Observed 2026-09-12.
- sitemap: 1 sitemap(s) declared, reachability not tested. Evidence: robots.txt declares "https://zoom.us/sitemap.xml"; it is on another host, so our checker did not request it. Observed 2026-09-12.
- tdm-reservation: no tdm-reservation header. Evidence: no tdm-reservation header on https://www.zoom.com at 2026-09-12T09:42:02Z. Observed 2026-09-12.
- x-robots-tag: no X-Robots-Tag header. Evidence: response headers of https://www.zoom.com at 2026-09-12T09:42:02Z: no X-Robots-Tag header present. Observed 2026-09-12.

## structured

- json-ld: 2 JSON-LD block(s) in the home page HTML. Evidence: script type=application/ld+json found at 2026-09-12T09:42:02Z on https://www.zoom.com: "{"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Corporation","@id":"https://www.zoom.com/#corporation","url":"https://www.zoom.com/","legalName":"Zoom Comm". Observed 2026-09-12.
- json-ld-types: ContactPoint, Corporation, ImageObject, Person, PostalAddress, SearchAction, WebPage, WebSite. Evidence: @type values parsed from 2 JSON-LD block(s) on https://www.zoom.com at 2026-09-12T09:42:02Z. Observed 2026-09-12.

## timing

- page-bytes: home page HTML 250 to 500 KB. Evidence: GET https://www.zoom.com at 2026-09-12T09:42:02Z transferred 300325 bytes of HTML, content type text/html (the value is banded, the exact byte count is here). Observed 2026-09-12.
- response-ms: home page answered in 500 to 1000 ms. Evidence: GET https://www.zoom.com as BikooshBot/1.0 (+https://bikoosh.com/bot) at 2026-09-12T09:42:02Z: HTTP 200 in 538 ms (the value is banded so that ordinary network jitter is not reported as a change). Observed 2026-09-12.

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