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Best BuyUnited States

Retail · United States · Q533415

Verdict
ConditionalCovers 4 of 5 agentsFrom technical signals only; no company statement found.
Company statement
None found
robots.txt signals
Conditional
Last checked
Fee
Unknown
x402
Unknown
Notes
Auto-discovered (Tranco + Wikidata); consumer classification not yet reviewed.
Human verified
Not yet

By agent

AgentResultBasis
ChatGPTConditionalrobots.txt rule (advisory: the vendor says this agent may ignore robots.txt)
ClaudeConditionalrobots.txt rule
PerplexityConditionalrobots.txt rule (advisory: the vendor says this agent may ignore robots.txt)
GeminiNo dataGoogle documents Google-Agent for agents hosted on its infrastructure but does not name Gemini; the mapping is unconfirmed.
Meta AIConditionalrobots.txt rule (advisory: the vendor says this agent may ignore robots.txt)
Meta MuseNo dataReported to send a generic Chromium-on-Linux user agent, so it cannot be targeted or detected via robots.txt; only company statements can speak to it.

Consumer surfaces

Evidence

Source typeAgentsResultEvidence levelObservedSource
robots.txt Check
Consumer agents
  • ChatGPT-User (the vendor says it may ignore robots.txt)
  • Claude-User
  • Perplexity-User (the vendor says it may ignore robots.txt)
  • Meta-ExternalFetcher (the vendor says it may ignore robots.txt)
Search crawlers
  • OAI-SearchBot
  • PerplexityBot
  • DuckAssistBot
Training crawlers
  • GPTBot
  • ClaudeBot
  • Google-Extended
  • Applebot-Extended
  • Meta-ExternalAgent
  • Amazonbot
Italic: the vendor says it may ignore robots.txt.		 Conditional Our Check2026-11-07 View source
robots.txt Check
Training crawlers
  • CCBot
  • Bytespider
 Conditional Our Check2026-11-07 View source
14 rules
Allow: /~assets/
Allow: /discover-learn/
Disallow: /nex/
Disallow: /m/e/*
Disallow: /site/builder/*
Disallow: /browse-api/*
Disallow: /api/*.json
Disallow: /availability/*
Disallow: /cart
Disallow: /cart/*
Disallow: /cartitems/*
Disallow: /fulfillment/*
Disallow: /location/*
Disallow: /pri

robots.txt checks

HostResultLast checkedUnchanged sinceContent-Signal
bestbuy.comRead (200)2026-11-07 21:00 UTC2026-11-05None

A robots.txt with no agent-specific rules produces no result, and silence is not the same as allowed. A refused or unreachable check says nothing about the site's rules.

Recent changes

Evidence levels: Our Check is a direct read of the site's robots.txt, Company Document is confirmed by a quote, News Report is reported by a reputable outlet, and Unverified Lead never sets a verdict. Methodology v2. View as JSON