Reddit v. SerpApi, opinion and order (31 July 2026): Reddit's robots.txt and data API terms, as pleaded (Reddit, Inc. v. SerpApi LLC, No. 25 Civ. 8736 (PAE) (S.D.N.Y. July 31, 2026), Dkt. 104, at 6)
Reddit tells crawlers no in robots.txt and lets even its API partners train AI only under a separate agreement, the kind of agreement its paid licences are. These are the facts as Reddit pleaded them, which the court took as true. Text read by OCR of the court's scanned PDF.
Dated 17 Oct 2026Source checked 17 Oct 2026Basis: primary text
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“Reddit’s robots exclusion protocol file (“robots.txt”) notifies scrapers that it prohibits unapproved web crawlers from accessing any part of Reddit’s website. ... Reddit prohibits using content for any other unapproved purpose, such as AI training, unless the third party has entered a separate agreement with Reddit to do so.”
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- Reddit v. SerpApi, Oxylabs, AWMProxy and Perplexity, opinion and order on motions to dismiss (31 July 2026) (Reddit, Inc. v. SerpApi LLC, No. 25 Civ. 8736 (PAE) (S.D.N.Y. July 31, 2026), Dkt. 104, at 62)
- Reddit v. SerpApi, opinion and order (31 July 2026): the Google v. SerpApi dismissal (Reddit, Inc. v. SerpApi LLC, No. 25 Civ. 8736 (PAE) (S.D.N.Y. July 31, 2026), Dkt. 104, at 7 n.3)
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