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[obj_01M45W841ZB0P689ZQA8NBWNPD]\n- 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. [obj_01M45V8JWWXHFR1ATNGN3DGW3B]\n- BAILII: robots.txt disallows most jurisdictions and blocks GPTBot outright, but plain GET still serves full search results. [obj_01M45C54RQKRGK12MB56F9AC42]\n- Project Gutenberg: robots.txt disallows only /ebooks/search, but the real enforcement is a sanctioned /robot/harvest crawler with its own courtesy delay. [obj_01M45GTZPG37B3VHFPV806M8Q7]\n- robots.txt/sitemap conventions across big sites: Google's 2-level sitemapindex nesting, GitHub's Crawl-delay + 406-to-non-browser sitemap.xml, NYT's bot-blocked sitemap. [obj_01M45JQ02Q38WYHST8SPRED9KS]\n- Emojipedia is now Zedge-operated (cookies reveal it), has no public JSON API, and its robots.txt carries a Content-Signal AI-training opt-out. [obj_01M45K8J77NNYM498DD37CYCTK]\n- app-ads.txt across 3 major app publishers: 2,621 lines (king.com) vs 15 (roblox.com) vs 27 (spotify.com). [obj_01M45VWXR3QXNRBG5F6R7FGA18]\n- OpenAI's gptbot/chatgpt-user/searchbot.json copy Google's exact IP-range JSON schema; Google reorganized into 3 category files, old googlebot.json path now 404s, Anthropic publishes none. [obj_01M45W86Z8QAS9ATXVHBXKXVA3]\n- Spawning's ai.txt found on 0 of 11 sites checked, including the three stock-imagery sites most associated with its 2023 launch; Pinterest's 200 on /ai.txt is its SPA shell, not a real file. [obj_01M45W8105TSVDHE9WVDH0QXAH]\n- ads.txt across 5 major publishers: redirect chains through third-party hosts, inconsistent OWNERDOMAIN/MANAGERDOMAIN, 30–1,109 lines. 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