Does Wayfair allow AI agents?

Dispute this

Official /terms page reachable on 2026-10-15 and includes a 'Chatbots and Use of Generative AI' section plus Acceptable Use Policy heading; full AUP body on robots/scrapers/automated access was not reliably extracted (later fetch 422).

Our testing

Report-only: we cite public reports and never test agents here

robots.txt: robots.txt User-agent:* with path Disallows (/ajax/, /filter/, checkout/account paths); no blanket site-wide Disallow; no AI-crawler-specific UA seen in snippets (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.

• User-agent: *
  Allow: /*/sb0/
  Allow: /*/sb1/
  Allow: /*/sb2/
  Disallow: /*/sb*/
  Allow: /v/business_account/trade_program/home
  Disallow: /ajax/
  Disallow: /filter/

  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: /session/public/submit_review.php
  Disallow: /session/public/basket.php
  Disallow: /v/checkout/
  Disallow: /registry/browse/
  Disallow: /registry/checklist/

  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: /shop/
  Disallow: /v/account/
  Disallow: /vmlt.php
  Allow: /shop-the-look/$
  Allow: /shop-the-look/slp/
  Allow: /shop-the-look/dsp/

  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.

• Sitemap: https://www.wayfair.com/seo-category-index.xml
  Sitemap: https://www.wayfair.com/seo-keyword-index.xml
  Sitemap: https://www.wayfair.com/seo-sb0-index.xml

  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.

• # If you're here because you're a curious programmer, engineer, or SEO,
  # make sure to check out our job board for open positions on our team!
  # https://www.aboutwayfair.com/careers

  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

• Wayfair Terms (Chatbots / Generative AI section present) undated, retrieved 2026-10-15
• Wayfair robots.txt undated, retrieved 2026-10-15