CrawlLedger
Domain record · observed metadata

Archive / apnews.com

apnews.com policy history.

Timestamped observations of public machine-readable policy files. The states below describe fetched records and parser results; they do not establish legal permission.

20observations
2signal types
0parsed changes
Aug 13, 2026last observed

Current observations

Current means the latest ledger event for each observed signal. Conditional 304 responses reuse the prior artifact hash while extending the event chain.

llms.txt

Unverified; response exceeded the limit

Observed
HTTP
404
Artifact
No retained artifact
Parser
Not applied

Observed source URL ↗

robots.txt

Observed and parsed

Observed
HTTP
200
Artifact
b5e768463fa3…
Parser
robots-rfc9309-rsl-content-signals-0.2.0

Observed source URL ↗

AI crawler rules in robots.txt

CrawlLedger evaluates a versioned registry of first-party-documented crawler tokens against the parsed robots groups.

Tracked crawler observations

These are parser results for the published robots rules, not authentication or legal conclusions.

Crawler tokenObserved stateMatched group
GPTBot
OpenAI · training
disallowedGPTBot
OAI-SearchBot
OpenAI · search
partial*
ChatGPT-User
OpenAI · user_action
partial*
ClaudeBot
Anthropic · training
disallowedClaudeBot
Claude-SearchBot
Anthropic · search
disallowedClaude-SearchBot
Claude-User
Anthropic · user_action
disallowedClaude-User
Google-Extended
Google · mixed
partial*
Applebot-Extended
Apple · training
disallowedApplebot-Extended
PerplexityBot
Perplexity · search
disallowedPerplexityBot
Perplexity-User
Perplexity · user_action
partial*
CCBot
Common Crawl · archive
disallowedCCBot

Recent observation timeline

The public timeline exposes hashes and metadata. Exact fetched bytes stay private to avoid redistributing source files.

  1. llms.txt · Unverified; response exceeded the limit

    · HTTP 404 · No retained artifact

  2. robots.txt · Observed and parsed

    · HTTP 200 · b5e768463fa3…

  3. llms.txt · Unverified; response exceeded the limit

    · HTTP 404 · No retained artifact

  4. robots.txt · Observed and parsed

    · HTTP 200 · b5e768463fa3…

  5. llms.txt · Unverified; response exceeded the limit

    · HTTP 404 · No retained artifact

  6. robots.txt · Observed and parsed

    · HTTP 200 · b5e768463fa3…

  7. llms.txt · Unverified; response exceeded the limit

    · HTTP 404 · No retained artifact

  8. robots.txt · Observed and parsed

    · HTTP 200 · b5e768463fa3…

  9. llms.txt · Unverified; response exceeded the limit

    · HTTP 404 · No retained artifact

  10. robots.txt · Observed and parsed

    · HTTP 200 · b5e768463fa3…

  11. llms.txt · Unverified; response exceeded the limit

    · HTTP 404 · No retained artifact

  12. robots.txt · Observed and parsed

    · HTTP 200 · b5e768463fa3…

  13. llms.txt · Unverified; response exceeded the limit

    · HTTP 404 · No retained artifact

  14. robots.txt · Observed and parsed

    · HTTP 200 · b5e768463fa3…

  15. llms.txt · Unverified; response exceeded the limit

    · HTTP 404 · No retained artifact

  16. robots.txt · Observed and parsed

    · HTTP 200 · b5e768463fa3…

How to interpret this record

Robots rules address cooperative crawl access. Content Signals express downstream-use preferences. llms.txt is publisher guidance, while RSL can express machine-readable terms. CrawlLedger only reports what it observed and parsed.