www.research-collection.ethz.ch
robots.txt

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claudebot

gptbot

meta-externalagent

googleother

perplexitybot

bytespider

mediapartners-google*

trendictionbot

pdf drive crawler

skyworkspider

semrushbot

dotbot

ahrefsbot

ubicrawler

doc

zao

sitecheck.internetseer.com

zealbot

msiecrawler

sitesnagger

webstripper

webcopier

fetch

offline explorer

teleport

teleportpro

webzip

linko

httrack

microsoft.url.control

xenu

larbin

libwww

zyborg

download ninja

fast

grub-client

k2spider

npbot

webreaper

semrushbot

semrushbot-sa

turnitinbot

piplbot

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Comments

• The FULL URL to the DSpace sitemaps
• The https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch will be auto-filled with the value in dspace.cfg
• XML sitemap is listed first as it is preferred by most search engines
• Default Access Group
• (NOTE: blank lines are not allowable in a group record)
• Disable access to Discovery search and filters
• Optionally uncomment the following line ONLY if sitemaps are working
• and you have verified that your site is being indexed correctly.
• Disallow: /browse
• Disallow: /handle/20.500.11850/*/browse
• If you have configured DSpace (Solr-based) Statistics to be publicly
• accessible, then you may not want this content to be indexed
• Disallow: /statistics
• You also may wish to disallow access to the following paths, in order
• to stop web spiders from accessing user-based content
• Disallow: /contact
• Disallow: /feedback
• Disallow: /forgot
• Disallow: /login
• Disallow: /register
• Section for AI-Crawlers
• The following directives to block bots that are used to build AI-Models and put too much of a strain on the RC
• AI-Crawler by Facebook
• This Google Crawler isn't used for search but internal use (probably including AI)
• Section for misbehaving bots
• The following directives to block specific robots were borrowed from Wikipedia's robots.txt
• advertising-related bots:
• Crawlers that are kind enough to obey, but which we'd rather not have
• unless they're feeding search engines.
• Some bots are known to be trouble, particularly those designed to copy
• entire sites. Please obey robots.txt.
• Misbehaving: requests much too fast:
• If your DSpace is going down because of someone using recursive wget,
• you can activate the following rule.
• If your own faculty is bringing down your dspace with recursive wget,
• you can advise them to use the --wait option to set the delay between hits.
• User-agent: wget
• Disallow: /
• The 'grub' distributed client has been *very* poorly behaved.
• Doesn't follow robots.txt anyway, but...
• Hits many times per second, not acceptable
• http://www.nameprotect.com/botinfo.html
• A capture bot, downloads gazillions of pages with no public benefit
• http://www.webreaper.net/
• A capture bot, hits with too high frequency, not acceptable
• https://www.semrush.com/bot/
• A capture bot, hits with too high frequency, not acceptable
• A commercial identity website, not needed