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Block AI bots and crawlers via robots.txt

Open flodolo opened this issue 3 months ago • 0 comments

Should we block LLM bots via robots.txt? I couldn't help noticing the amount of requests coming from Claude for non-existing strings when checking the logs for neterror.dtd.

This is the list I came up with recently for Transvision

User-agent: AhrefsBot
User-agent: AliyunSecBot
User-agent: Amazonbot
User-agent: Barkrowler
User-agent: BLEXBot
User-agent: Bytespider
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: meta-externalagent
User-agent: MJ12bot
User-agent: PetalBot
User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /

Possible useful to add based on the log

User-agent: ClaudeBot

flodolo avatar Oct 11 '25 12:10 flodolo