Retail and shopping · ikea.com/us
Does IKEA US allow AI agents?
Source as of
IKEA US's own rules for AI agents and automation.
Source: ikea.com · Terms: 2026-09-02
Bans automated devices only 'to monitor, copy or scrape'. No AI-agent or benchmarking clause found. Nothing has been tested yet.
- Our testing
- Report-only: we cite public reports and never test agents here
robots.txt: robots.txt disallows */search/?q=*, *?filter=*, /compare* and *OrderItemDisplay* in the rules for all crawlers (User-agent: *). We treat a user-directed agent session as automated access, so agents reach items by browsing categories only, never search URLs, filters or compare. The same rules also disallow sorting (*?sorting=*, *&sorting=*), cart (*/cart/*, */shoppingcart/) and checkout (*/checkout/*) paths, so the add-to-cart task is Reported only.
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.
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prohibits robot, spider, other automatic device or manual process to monitor, copy or scrape without prior express written consent of an authorized IKEA executive
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bars actions imposing unreasonable or disproportionately large load on infrastructure
Sources
- IKEA US Terms and Conditions 2026-09-02
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