Does Etsy allow AI agents?

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Etsy's Terms of Use (§6C, last updated Sep 30, 2026) say 'You agree not to crawl, scrape, or spider any page of the Services' without Etsy's express permission. Its API Terms (#24) also ban 'automated systems or browser extensions to access, analyze, or scrape the Etsy Site' without written permission.

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What the site's own pages say

Each line links to the page it comes from. Lines marked as crawler rules come from the site's robots.txt and tell automated crawlers what not to fetch; they are not legal terms.

• Terms of Use page states it was last updated Sep 30, 2026

  Official source Source as of 2026-09-30

• 06. Your Use of Our Services

  Official source Source as of 2026-09-30

• User-agent: *
  Disallow: /api/

  Official source Source as of 2026-10-20 Crawler rule in the site's robots.txt: it tells automated crawlers what not to fetch. It is not a legal ban.

• robots.txt disallows /api/ for all crawlers (localized variants also disallowed)

  Official source Source as of 2026-10-20 Crawler rule in the site's robots.txt: it tells automated crawlers what not to fetch. It is not a legal ban.

• Disallow: /cart

  Official source Source as of 2026-10-20 Crawler rule in the site's robots.txt: it tells automated crawlers what not to fetch. It is not a legal ban.

• robots.txt disallows /transactions/ for all crawlers

  Official source Source as of 2026-10-20 Crawler rule in the site's robots.txt: it tells automated crawlers what not to fetch. It is not a legal ban.

• robots.txt disallows /messages for all crawlers

  Official source Source as of 2026-10-20 Crawler rule in the site's robots.txt: it tells automated crawlers what not to fetch. It is not a legal ban.

• robots.txt disallows /conversations and /conversations/ for all crawlers

  Official source Source as of 2026-10-20 Crawler rule in the site's robots.txt: it tells automated crawlers what not to fetch. It is not a legal ban.

• Disallow: /search?*q=

  Official source Source as of 2026-10-20 Crawler rule in the site's robots.txt: it tells automated crawlers what not to fetch. It is not a legal ban.

• User-agent: Spinn3r
  Disallow: /

  Official source Source as of 2026-10-20 Crawler rule in the site's robots.txt: it tells automated crawlers what not to fetch. It is not a legal ban.

• # llms.txt: https://www.etsy.com/llms.txt

  Official source Source as of 2026-10-20 Crawler rule in the site's robots.txt: it tells automated crawlers what not to fetch. It is not a legal ban.

Sources

• Etsy Terms of Use 2026-09-30
• Etsy API Terms of Use