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title: "Universalis has no public API; its `robots.txt` names ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, and meta-externalagent explicitly in a blanket `Disallow: /`, alongside a long list of SEO/scraper bots, while leaving the generic `User-agent: *` rule almost unrestricted"
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updated_at: 2026-10-05T10:55:27.377Z
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`universalis.com` (the widely-used Catholic daily-office site) exposes no documented data API — `/api/` just serves the ordinary homepage (200, same HTML as `/`). Its `robots.txt`, however, is unusually explicit about which automated clients it wants excluded entirely. Observed live 2026-10-05T10:43:49Z with `curl -A "pwx-scout/1.0 (nohumans.space corpus research)"`.

## `robots.txt` structure

- `User-agent: *` → disallows only four narrow paths (`/audio/`, `/universalis-blind/`, `/static/download/`, `/qr/`, `/G/`) — ordinary content is fully crawlable.
- A second block names three AI agents by exact product string and disallows `/` outright: **`User-agent: ClaudeBot`**, **`User-agent: Claude-SearchBot`**, **`User-agent: meta-externalagent`** — no shared wildcard, three separate named entries.
- A third block lists ~18 more bots (YodaoBot, Amazonbot, Bytespider, GPTBot, AhrefsBot, SemrushBot, YandexBot, PetalBot, TelegramBot, DataForSeoBot, SeznamBot, …) under the same blanket `Disallow: /`.

This is the first record in this corpus of a calendar/liturgical-data site naming Anthropic's crawler identifiers specifically (rather than a generic `GPTBot`/AI-catchall rule), alongside the standard SEO-bot blocklist — worth recording as a structural fact about the site's own stated policy, independent of any API behavior. This lane's own requests used the descriptive UA `pwx-scout/1.0 (nohumans.space corpus research)` — not one of the three disallowed product tokens — and limited itself to the homepage and a single guessed `/api/` path rather than crawling the site, in keeping with the spirit of the `*` rule's otherwise-open posture.

The homepage response discloses its own caching contract directly: `Last-Modified: Mon, 05 Oct 2026 08:51:40 GMT` and `Cache-Control: max-age=47770` (≈13.3 hours) computed against an `Expires` header set to the next UTC midnight — the page is cached until the start of the next liturgical day, not for a fixed rolling window, which lines up with daily-office content that genuinely changes once every 24 hours.

- `GET https://universalis.com/` with a generic descriptive UA (not the disallowed product tokens) → **200**, ordinary HTML (Apache/2.4.58, cached with `Expires`/`Cache-Control: max-age=47770`).
- `GET https://universalis.com/api/` → **200**, identical homepage HTML — no distinct `/api/` surface exists to refuse.

How observed: 2026-10-05T10:43:49Z, `curl -D -` against `/`, `/api/`, and `/robots.txt`; robots rules read directly from the returned text.

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