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robots.txt

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adsbot

peer39_crawler
peer39_crawler/1.0

turnitinbot

npbot

slysearch

blexbot

checkmarknetwork/1.0 (+https://www.checkmarknetwork.com/spider.html)

brandverity/1.0

piplbot

mj12bot

No rules defined. All paths allowed.

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chatgpt-user
gptbot

google-extended

applebot-extended

claudebot

facebookbot
meta-externalagent

cotoyogi

webzio-extended

kangaroo bot

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Comments

• I opt out of online advertising so malware that injects ads on my site won't
• get paid. You should do the same. my ads.txt file contains a standard
• placeholder to forbid any compliant ad networks from paying for ad placement
• on my domain.
• By allowing us access, you enable the maximum number
• of advertisers to confidently purchase advertising space on your pages. Our
• comprehensive data insights help advertisers understand the suitability and
• context of your content, ensuring that their ads align with your audience's
• interests and needs. This alignment leads to improved user experiences,
• increased engagement, and ultimately, higher revenue potential for your
• publication. (https://www.peer39.com/crawler-notice)
• --> fuck off.
• IP-violation scanners
• The next three are borrowed from https://www.videolan.org/robots.txt
• > This robot collects content from the Internet for the sole purpose of
• helping educational institutions prevent plagiarism. [...] we compare student
• papers against the content we find on the Internet to see if we # can find
• similarities. (http://www.turnitin.com/robot/crawlerinfo.html)
• --> fuck off.
• > NameProtect engages in crawling activity in search of a wide range of brand
• and other intellectual property violations that may be of interest to our
• clients. (http://www.nameprotect.com/botinfo.html)
• --> fuck off.
• iThenticate is a new service we have developed to combat the piracy of
• intellectual property and ensure the originality of written work for
• publishers, non-profit agencies, corporations, and newspapers.
• (http://www.slysearch.com/)
• --> fuck off.
• BLEXBot assists internet marketers to get information on the link structure
• of sites and their interlinking on the web, to avoid any technical and
• possible legal issues and improve overall online experience.
• (http://webmeup-crawler.com/)
• --> fuck off.
• Providing Intellectual Property professionals with superior brand protection
• services by artfully merging the latest technology with expert analysis.
• (https://www.checkmarknetwork.com/spider.html/)
• "The Internet is just way to big to effectively police alone." (ACTUAL quote)
• --> fuck off.
• Stop trademark violations and affiliate non-compliance in paid search.
• Automatically monitor your partner and affiliates’ online marketing to
• protect yourself from harmful brand violations and regulatory risks. We
• regularly crawl websites on behalf of our clients to ensure content
• compliance with brand and regulatory guidelines.
• (https://www.brandverity.com/why-is-brandverity-visiting-me)
• --> fuck off.
• Misc. icky stuff
• Pipl assembles online identity information from multiple independent sources
• to create the most complete picture of a digital identity and connect it to
• real people and their offline identity records. When all the fragments of
• online identity data are collected, connected, and corroborated, the result
• is a more trustworthy identity.
• --> fuck off.
• Well-known overly-aggressive bot that claims to respect robots.txt: http://mj12bot.com/
• Gen-AI data scrapers
• Eat shit, OpenAI.
• Official way to opt-out of Google's generative AI training:
• <https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/overview-google-crawlers>
• Official way to opt-out of LLM training by Apple
• <https://support.apple.com/en-us/119829#datausage>
• Anthropic-AI crawler posted guidance after a long period of crawling without opt-out documentation: <https://support.anthropic.com/en/articles/8896518-does-anthropic-crawl-data-from-the-web-and-how-can-site-owners-block-the-crawler>
• FacebookBot crawls public web pages to improve language models for our speech
• recognition technology.
• <https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/bot/?_fb_noscript=1>
• UPDATE: The Meta-ExternalAgent crawler crawls the web for use cases such as training AI models or improving products by indexing content directly.
• <https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/web-crawlers>
• This one doesn't support robots.txt: https://www.allenai.org/crawler
• block it with your reverse-proxy or WAF or something.
• See <https://ds.rois.ac.jp/center8/crawler/>
• Parent page says it builds LLMs in the infographic: <https://ds.rois.ac.jp/center8/>
• https://webz.io/bot.html
• https://kangaroollm.com.au/kangaroo-bot/`
• I'm not blocking CCBot for now. It publishes a free index for anyone to use.
• Googe used this to train the initial version of Bard (now called Gemini).
• I allow CCBot since its index is also used for upstart/hobbyist search engines
• like Alexandria and for genuinely useful academic work I personally like.
• I allow Owler for similar reasons:
• <https://openwebsearch.eu/owler/#owler-opt-out>
• <https://openwebsearch.eu/common-goals-with-common-crawl/>.
• Omgilibot/Omgili is similar to CCBot, except it sells the scrape results.
• I'm not familiar enough with Omgili to make a call here.
• In the long run, my embedded robots meta-tags and headers could cover gen-AI
• I don't block cohere-ai or Perplexitybot: they don't appear to actually
• scrape data for LLM training purposes. The crawling powers search engines
• with integrated pre-trained LLMs.
• TODO: investigate whether YouBot scrapes to train its own in-house LLM.
• Ghost CMS + Webmentions allowed