Does Walmart allow AI agents?

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Bans any robot or 'manual or automatic device to retrieve, index, scrape… or otherwise gather any Materials', and bans using Materials to develop/train/improve AI or ML models without Walmart's prior written consent. Last Updated September 9, 2026.

Our testing

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robots.txt: robots.txt disallows /account/, /api/, /search, /orders, /sp/* among others; no AI-agent-specific UA directives noted (retrieved 2026-10-15).

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.

• #Disallow select URLs
  User-agent: *
  Disallow: /0/

  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.

• Account paths disallowed to 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.

• API paths disallowed to 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.

• Order paths disallowed to 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.

• Site search and search API paths disallowed to 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.

• Feed endpoints disallowed to 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.

• Explicit crawl-delay only for Yahoo Slurp (5 seconds); no crawl-delay for the wildcard agent

  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.

• Named crawler blocks are only Adsbot-Google and Mediapartners-Google (empty, i.e. no extra restrictions), plus Slurp delay

  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.

• Not stated on walmart.com/robots.txt as of 2026-10-20

  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

• Walmart.com Terms of Use 2026-09-09