ai.robots.txt

This is an open list of web crawlers associated with AI companies and the training of LLMs to block. We encourage you to contribute to and implement this list on your own site. See information about the listed crawlers and the FAQ.

A number of these crawlers have been sourced from Dark Visitors and we appreciate the ongoing effort they put in to track these crawlers.

If you'd like to add information about a crawler to the list, please make a pull request with the bot name added to robots.txt, ai.txt, and any relevant details in table-of-bot-metrics.md to help people understand what's crawling.

Usage

This repository provides the following files:

• robots.txt
• .htaccess
• nginx-block-ai-bots.conf
• Caddyfile
• haproxy-block-ai-bots.txt

robots.txt implements the Robots Exclusion Protocol (RFC 9309).

.htaccess may be used to configure web servers such as Apache httpd to return an error page when one of the listed AI crawlers sends a request to the web server. Note that, as stated in the httpd documentation, more performant methods than an .htaccess file exist.

nginx-block-ai-bots.conf implements a Nginx configuration snippet that can be included in any virtual host server {} block via the include directive.

Caddyfile includes a Header Regex matcher group you can copy or import into your Caddyfile, the rejection can then be handled as followed abort @aibots

haproxy-block-ai-bots.txt may be used to configure HAProxy to block AI bots. To implement it;

1. Add the file to the config directory of HAProxy
2. Add the following lines in the frontend section;

   acl ai_robot hdr_sub(user-agent) -i -f /etc/haproxy/haproxy-block-ai-bots.txt
   http-request deny if ai_robot
   

   (Note that the path of the haproxy-block-ai-bots.txt may be different in your environment.)

Contributing

A note about contributing: updates should be added/made to robots.json. A GitHub action will then generate the updated robots.txt, table-of-bot-metrics.md, .htaccess and nginx-block-ai-bots.conf.

You can run the tests by installing Python 3 and issuing:

code/tests.py

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Report abusive crawlers

If you use Cloudflare's hard block alongside this list, you can report abusive crawlers that don't respect robots.txt here. But even if you don't use Cloudflare's hard block, their list of verified bots may come in handy.

Additional resources

• Blocking Bots with Nginx by Robb Knight
• Blockin' bots. by Ethan Marcotte
• Blocking Bots With 11ty And Apache by fLaMEd fury
• Blockin' bots on Netlify by Jeremia Kimelman
• Blocking AI web crawlers by Glyn Normington
• Block AI Bots from Crawling Websites Using Robots.txt by Jonathan Gillham, Originality.AI