robots.txt:
The use of robots or other automated means to access the eBay site without the express permission of eBay is strictly prohibited.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, eBay may permit automated access to access certain eBay pages but solely for the limited purpose of including content in publicly available search engines.
Any other use of robots or failure to obey the robots exclusion standards set forth at <https://www.robotstxt.org/orig.html> is strictly prohibited.
Checkouts are strictly for human users.
Automated scraping, buy-for-me agents, LLM-driven bots, or any end-to-end flow that attempts to place orders without human review is strictly prohibited.
Unauthorized use of automated agents in checkout may result in legal action under our User Agreement: https://www.ebay.com/help/policies/member-behaviour-policies/user-agreement?id=4259
Approved enterprise integrations must use our official API and comply with our API License Agreement: https://developer.ebay.com/join/api-license-agreement
| Agent | Rules it follows (RFC 9309) | Over the whole file |
|---|---|---|
| * | the * group | 216 Disallow rules; / allowed |
| Googlebot | its own group | 216 Disallow rules; / allowed |
| Bingbot | its own group | 200 Disallow rules; / allowed; not bound by 18 of the * Disallow rules |
| GPTBot | its own group | disallowed at / (line 770), with 11 Allow rules; not bound by 2 of the * Disallow rules |
| OAI-SearchBot | its own group | 210 Disallow rules; / allowed; not bound by 6 of the * Disallow rules |
| ChatGPT-User | its own group | 210 Disallow rules; / allowed; not bound by 6 of the * Disallow rules |
| ClaudeBot | its own group | disallowed at / (line 770), with 11 Allow rules; not bound by 2 of the * Disallow rules |
| Claude-SearchBot | its own group | 210 Disallow rules; / allowed; not bound by 6 of the * Disallow rules |
| Claude-User | its own group | 210 Disallow rules; / allowed; not bound by 6 of the * Disallow rules |
| Applebot-Extended | its own group | disallowed at / (line 770), with 11 Allow rules; not bound by 2 of the * Disallow rules |
| PerplexityBot | its own group | disallowed at / (line 770), with 11 Allow rules; not bound by 2 of the * Disallow rules |
| CCBot | its own group | disallowed at / (line 770), with 11 Allow rules; not bound by 2 of the * Disallow rules |
| Bytespider | its own group | disallowed at / (line 770), with 11 Allow rules; not bound by 2 of the * Disallow rules |
| meta-externalagent | its own group | disallowed at / (line 770), with 11 Allow rules; not bound by 2 of the * Disallow rules |
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