Merge pull request #3363 from metacpan/leo/bots

Tell the bots to go away

Author: ranguard

root/robots.txt

@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
-# http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/norobots.html
-
+# Stop anything going into these locations
 User-agent: *
 Disallow: /login/
 Disallow: */diff/
@@ -14,3 +13,70 @@ Disallow: /*?*size=*
 
 Sitemap: https://metacpan.org/sitemap-authors.xml.gz
 Sitemap: https://metacpan.org/sitemap-releases.xml.gz
+
+# Stop the bots, using list from:
+# https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt/blob/main/robots.txt
+User-agent: AI2Bot
+User-agent: Ai2Bot-Dolma
+User-agent: aiHitBot
+User-agent: Amazonbot
+User-agent: anthropic-ai
+User-agent: Applebot
+User-agent: Applebot-Extended
+User-agent: Brightbot 1.0
+User-agent: Bytespider
+User-agent: CCBot
+User-agent: ChatGPT-User
+User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
+User-agent: Claude-User
+User-agent: Claude-Web
+User-agent: ClaudeBot
+User-agent: cohere-ai
+User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler
+User-agent: Cotoyogi
+User-agent: Crawlspace
+User-agent: Diffbot
+User-agent: DuckAssistBot
+User-agent: FacebookBot
+User-agent: Factset_spyderbot
+User-agent: FirecrawlAgent
+User-agent: FriendlyCrawler
+User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot
+User-agent: Google-Extended
+User-agent: GoogleOther
+User-agent: GoogleOther-Image
+User-agent: GoogleOther-Video
+User-agent: GPTBot
+User-agent: iaskspider/2.0
+User-agent: ICC-Crawler
+User-agent: ImagesiftBot
+User-agent: img2dataset
+User-agent: imgproxy
+User-agent: ISSCyberRiskCrawler
+User-agent: Kangaroo Bot
+User-agent: meta-externalagent
+User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
+User-agent: meta-externalfetcher
+User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher
+User-agent: MistralAI-User/1.0
+User-agent: NovaAct
+User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
+User-agent: omgili
+User-agent: omgilibot
+User-agent: Operator
+User-agent: PanguBot
+User-agent: Perplexity-User
+User-agent: PerplexityBot
+User-agent: PetalBot
+User-agent: QualifiedBot
+User-agent: Scrapy
+User-agent: SemrushBot-OCOB
+User-agent: SemrushBot-SWA
+User-agent: Sidetrade indexer bot
+User-agent: TikTokSpider
+User-agent: Timpibot
+User-agent: VelenPublicWebCrawler
+User-agent: Webzio-Extended
+User-agent: wpbot
+User-agent: YouBot
+Disallow: /