# ============================================================================= # robots.txt — gregkilmer.com # ============================================================================= # Strict anti-scraping policy. # # - Google/Bing/etc. (legitimate search) are ALLOWED for SEO. # - /api/ and /contact are disallowed for everyone (the form + endpoints # should not be indexed or crawled). # - Known AI training bots are blocked by User-Agent below. Note that # robots.txt is voluntary; determined scrapers will ignore it. This is a # first layer (paired with noindex on /contact and email obfuscation). # ============================================================================= # --- Default policy: allow crawling of public pages, block the API + contact User-agent: * Allow: / Disallow: /api/ Disallow: /contact # --- Block known AI training / scraping bots explicitly --------------------- # OpenAI User-agent: GPTBot Disallow: / User-agent: ChatGPT-User Disallow: / User-agent: OAI-SearchBot Disallow: / # Anthropic User-agent: ClaudeBot Disallow: / User-agent: Claude-Web Disallow: / User-agent: anthropic-ai Disallow: / # Google's AI/Vertex crawlers (separate from regular Googlebot, which is allowed) User-agent: Google-Extended Disallow: / # Common Crawl (feeds many AI training datasets) User-agent: CCBot Disallow: / # ByteDance / TikTok User-agent: Bytespider Disallow: / # Meta User-agent: meta-externalagent Disallow: / User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent Disallow: / User-agent: FacebookBot Disallow: / # Amazon / Alexa User-agent: Amazonbot Disallow: / # Apple's AI/Applebot-Extended (regular Applebot remains allowed for Siri/Suggestions) User-agent: Applebot-Extended Disallow: / # Perplexity User-agent: PerplexityBot Disallow: / # Cohere User-agent: cohere-ai Disallow: / # Diffbot User-agent: Diffbot Disallow: / # Imagesift / OC-72 / other image scrapers User-agent: ImagesiftBot Disallow: / User-agent: omgili Disallow: / User-agent: Omgilibot Disallow: / # Sitemap (uncomment once a sitemap.xml is generated) # Sitemap: https://gregkilmer.com/sitemap.xml