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70 changes: 68 additions & 2 deletions root/robots.txt
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# http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/norobots.html

# Stop anything going into these locations
User-agent: *
Disallow: /login/
Disallow: */diff/
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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: /
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