Europe PMC / robots.txt
← back to europepmc.org · change detected 19d ago (2026-07-16T23:56:01Z) · modified +98 −7
What changed
- Added rules for user-agent ‘baiduspider’
- Added rules for user-agent ‘bingbot’
- 🤖 AIAdded rules for AI crawler ChatGPT-User (OpenAI)
- 🤖 AIAdded rules for AI crawler GPTBot (OpenAI)
- 🤖 AIAdded rules for AI crawler OAI-SearchBot (OpenAI)
- 🤖 AIAdded rules for AI crawler PerplexityBot (Perplexity)
- Added rules for user-agent ‘Perplexity‑User’
- Crawl-delay for *: 10 → 5
- Added Disallow: /*/*jsessionid* for Googlebot
- Added Disallow: /Funders/rss/* for Googlebot
- Added Disallow: /exception* for Googlebot
- Added Disallow: /ftp/oa/* for Googlebot
- Removed Disallow: /advancedsearch for Googlebot
- Added Disallow: /Funders/rss/* for MSNbot
- Added Disallow: /abstract/* for MSNbot
- Added Disallow: /exception/* for MSNbot
- Added Disallow: /ftp/oa/* for MSNbot
- Added Disallow: /search?* for MSNbot
- Added Disallow: /Funders/rss/* for Slurp
- Added Disallow: /abstract/* for Slurp
- Added Disallow: /exception/* for Slurp
- Added Disallow: /ftp/oa/* for Slurp
- Added Disallow: /search?* for Slurp
- Added sitemap http://europepmc.org/sitemap_authors_index.xml
- Added sitemap http://europepmc.org/sitemap_funders_index.xml
- Added sitemap http://europepmc.org/sitemap_grants_index.xml
- Added sitemap http://europepmc.org/sitemap_search_index.xml
Diff old (2026-07-16T17:46:03Z) → new (2026-07-16T23:56:01Z)
| @@ -3,16 +3,15 @@ | ||
| 3 | 3 | |
| 4 | 4 | User-agent: Googlebot |
| 5 | 5 | Disallow: /classic |
| 6 | - #Disallow: /*/articles/*/pdf/ | |
| 7 | - #Disallow: /articles/*/pdf/ | |
| 8 | - #Disallow: /articles/*?pdf=render | |
| 9 | - #Disallow: /articles/*?*blobtype=pdf* | |
| 10 | - Disallow: /advancedsearch | |
| 11 | 6 | Disallow: /feedback/* |
| 12 | 7 | Disallow: /*?wicket:interface* |
| 13 | - #Disallow: /search/* | |
| 14 | 8 | Disallow: /*?europe_pmc_extredirect=* |
| 9 | + Disallow: /ftp/oa/* | |
| 10 | + Disallow: /Funders/rss/* | |
| 11 | + Disallow: /exception* | |
| 12 | + Disallow: /*/*jsessionid* | |
| 15 | 13 | |
| 14 | + # | |
| 16 | 15 | # Yahoo |
| 17 | 16 | User-agent: Slurp |
| 18 | 17 | Disallow: /classic |
| @@ -24,9 +23,24 @@ | ||
| 24 | 23 | Disallow: /feedback/* |
| 25 | 24 | Disallow: /*?wicket:interface* |
| 26 | 25 | Disallow: /search/* |
| 26 | + Disallow: /search?* | |
| 27 | + Disallow: /abstract/* | |
| 27 | 28 | Disallow: /*?europe_pmc_extredirect=* |
| 29 | + Disallow: /ftp/oa/* | |
| 30 | + Disallow: /exception/* | |
| 31 | + Disallow: /Funders/rss/* | |
| 28 | 32 | |
| 29 | 33 | # Bing |
| 34 | + User-agent: bingbot | |
| 35 | + Disallow: /classic | |
| 36 | + Disallow: /feedback/* | |
| 37 | + Disallow: /*?wicket:interface* | |
| 38 | + Disallow: /*?europe_pmc_extredirect=* | |
| 39 | + Disallow: /ftp/oa/* | |
| 40 | + Disallow: /Funders/rss/* | |
| 41 | + Disallow: /exception* | |
| 42 | + Disallow: /*/*jsessionid* | |
| 43 | + | |
| 30 | 44 | User-agent: MSNbot |
| 31 | 45 | Disallow: /classic |
| 32 | 46 | Disallow: /*/articles/*/pdf/ |
| @@ -36,8 +50,81 @@ | ||
| 36 | 50 | Disallow: /advancedsearch |
| 37 | 51 | Disallow: /feedback/* |
| 38 | 52 | Disallow: /*?wicket:interface* |
| 53 | + Disallow: /ftp/oa/* | |
| 39 | 54 | Disallow: /search/* |
| 55 | + Disallow: /search?* | |
| 56 | + Disallow: /abstract/* | |
| 40 | 57 | Disallow: /*?europe_pmc_extredirect=* |
| 58 | + Disallow: /Funders/rss/* | |
| 59 | + Disallow: /exception/* | |
| 60 | + | |
| 61 | + User-agent: baiduspider | |
| 62 | + Disallow: /classic | |
| 63 | + Disallow: /*/articles/*/pdf/ | |
| 64 | + Disallow: /articles/*/pdf/ | |
| 65 | + Disallow: /articles/*?pdf=render | |
| 66 | + Disallow: /articles/*?*blobtype=pdf* | |
| 67 | + Disallow: /advancedsearch | |
| 68 | + Disallow: /feedback/* | |
| 69 | + Disallow: /*?wicket:interface* | |
| 70 | + Disallow: /ftp/oa/* | |
| 71 | + Disallow: /search/* | |
| 72 | + Disallow: /search?* | |
| 73 | + Disallow: /abstract/* | |
| 74 | + Disallow: /*?europe_pmc_extredirect=* | |
| 75 | + Disallow: /Funders/rss/* | |
| 76 | + Disallow: /exception/* | |
| 77 | + | |
| 78 | + User-agent: OAI-SearchBot | |
| 79 | + Disallow: /classic | |
| 80 | + Disallow: /feedback/* | |
| 81 | + Disallow: /*?wicket:interface* | |
| 82 | + Disallow: /*?europe_pmc_extredirect=* | |
| 83 | + Disallow: /ftp/oa/* | |
| 84 | + Disallow: /Funders/rss/* | |
| 85 | + Disallow: /exception* | |
| 86 | + Disallow: /*/*jsessionid* | |
| 87 | + | |
| 88 | + User-agent: ChatGPT-User | |
| 89 | + Disallow: /classic | |
| 90 | + Disallow: /feedback/* | |
| 91 | + Disallow: /*?wicket:interface* | |
| 92 | + Disallow: /*?europe_pmc_extredirect=* | |
| 93 | + Disallow: /ftp/oa/* | |
| 94 | + Disallow: /Funders/rss/* | |
| 95 | + Disallow: /exception* | |
| 96 | + Disallow: /*/*jsessionid* | |
| 97 | + | |
| 98 | + User-agent: GPTBot | |
| 99 | + Disallow: /classic | |
| 100 | + Disallow: /feedback/* | |
| 101 | + Disallow: /*?wicket:interface* | |
| 102 | + Disallow: /*?europe_pmc_extredirect=* | |
| 103 | + Disallow: /ftp/oa/* | |
| 104 | + Disallow: /Funders/rss/* | |
| 105 | + Disallow: /exception* | |
| 106 | + Disallow: /*/*jsessionid* | |
| 107 | + | |
| 108 | + User-agent: PerplexityBot | |
| 109 | + Disallow: /classic | |
| 110 | + Disallow: /feedback/* | |
| 111 | + Disallow: /*?wicket:interface* | |
| 112 | + Disallow: /*?europe_pmc_extredirect=* | |
| 113 | + Disallow: /ftp/oa/* | |
| 114 | + Disallow: /Funders/rss/* | |
| 115 | + Disallow: /exception* | |
| 116 | + Disallow: /*/*jsessionid* | |
| 117 | + | |
| 118 | + User-agent: Perplexity‑User | |
| 119 | + Disallow: /classic | |
| 120 | + Disallow: /feedback/* | |
| 121 | + Disallow: /*?wicket:interface* | |
| 122 | + Disallow: /*?europe_pmc_extredirect=* | |
| 123 | + Disallow: /ftp/oa/* | |
| 124 | + Disallow: /Funders/rss/* | |
| 125 | + Disallow: /exception* | |
| 126 | + Disallow: /*/*jsessionid* | |
| 127 | + | |
| 41 | 128 | |
| 42 | 129 | # For all other bots |
| 43 | 130 | User-agent: * |
| @@ -45,6 +132,10 @@ | ||
| 45 | 132 | |
| 46 | 133 | Sitemap: http://europepmc.org/sitemap_abstract_index.xml |
| 47 | 134 | Sitemap: http://europepmc.org/sitemap_fulltext_index.xml |
| 48 | - Crawl-delay: 10 | |
| 135 | + Sitemap: http://europepmc.org/sitemap_authors_index.xml | |
| 136 | + Sitemap: http://europepmc.org/sitemap_funders_index.xml | |
| 137 | + Sitemap: http://europepmc.org/sitemap_search_index.xml | |
| 138 | + Sitemap: http://europepmc.org/sitemap_grants_index.xml | |
| 139 | + Crawl-delay: 5 | |
| 49 | 140 | |
| 50 | 141 |