30 bots · copy and paste

robots.txt generator

Choose which AI crawlers, search engines and SEO bots may read your site and get a robots.txt to paste at https://your-site.com/robots.txt. Then check the result.

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Search engines · Search index

The crawlers behind Google, Bing and the other search engines. Blocking one drops you out of its results.

GooglebotGoogle
BingbotMicrosoft
DuckDuckBotDuckDuckGo
ApplebotApple
PetalBotHuawei
YandexBotYandex
BaiduspiderBaidu

AI search · AI answers

Crawlers that build the indexes AI assistants answer from and cite. Blocking one keeps you out of its answers.

OAI-SearchBotOpenAI
PerplexityBotPerplexity
Claude-SearchBotAnthropic
DuckAssistBotDuckDuckGo
AmazonbotAmazon
YouBotYou.com

AI training · Model training

Crawlers that collect pages to train models. Blocking them does not affect search or AI answers.

GPTBotOpenAI
ClaudeBotAnthropic
Google-ExtendedGoogle
CCBotCommon Crawl
Applebot-ExtendedApple
GoogleOtherGoogle
Meta-ExternalAgentMeta
BytespiderByteDance

User-triggered fetchers · Live user request

Fetchers that load a page because a person asked an assistant about it. Blocking one means the assistant can’t open your pages on request.

ChatGPT-UserOpenAI
Claude-UserAnthropic
Perplexity-UserPerplexity
MistralAI-UserMistral
Meta-ExternalFetcherMeta

SEO tools · Backlink & SEO index

Crawlers behind backlink and SEO tools. Many sites block them to save bandwidth; it has no effect on search.

AhrefsBotAhrefs
SemrushBotSemrush
MJ12botMajestic
DotBotMoz

Everything else

Bots not named above User-agent: *

Your robots.txt


        

robots.txt is a request, not a lock. Bots that ignore it need a firewall or CDN rule on their user agent. A blocked bot can still see pages that other sites link to; to keep a page out of search results, use a noindex directive instead.