Bug 939085 – Block AI crawlers via robots.txt

• Status: UNCONFIRMED
• Product: Websites

[Description David Sardari 2024-09-04 21:59:21 UTC]

Some AI crawlers respect the robots.txt. Perhaps, it's worth blocking them via robots.txt:

❯ bash -c '(
    curl -fsS --tlsv1.3 https://codeberg.org/robots.txt | \
      tac | \
      grep -A999 "^Disallow: /$" | \
      grep -m1 -B999 "^[[:space:]]*$" | \
      tac
    curl -fsS https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt/main/robots.txt
  ) | sort -ru'
User-agent: omgilibot
User-agent: omgili
User-agent: meta-externalagent
User-agent: img2dataset
User-agent: facebookexternalhit
User-agent: cohere-ai
User-agent: anthropic-ai
User-agent: YouBot
User-agent: Webzio-Extended
User-agent: VelenPublicWebCrawler
User-agent: Timpibot
User-agent: Scrapy
User-agent: PetalBot
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: Omgilibot
User-agent: Omgili
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
User-agent: ImagesiftBot
User-agent: ICC-Crawler
User-agent: GoogleOther-Video
User-agent: GoogleOther-Image
User-agent: GoogleOther
User-agent: Google-Extended
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: FriendlyCrawler
User-agent: FacebookBot
User-agent: Diffbot
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: Claude-Web
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: Bytespider
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
User-agent: Applebot
User-agent: Amazonbot
User-agent: Ai2Bot-Dolma
User-agent: AI2Bot
Disallow: /

Reproducible: Always





https://blog.codeberg.org/letter-from-codeberg-software-is-about-humans.html
=> "AI and Crawling"

https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt