The Washington Post / robots.txt snapshot
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final URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/robots.txt
| 1 | User-agent: * |
| 2 | Disallow: /*_print.html |
| 3 | Disallow: /*_email.html |
| 4 | Disallow: /*_singlePage.html |
| 5 | Disallow: /*_allComments.html |
| 6 | Disallow: /*_jsn.json |
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| 8 | Disallow: /*_nitf.xml |
| 9 | Disallow: /*_newsml.html |
| 10 | Disallow: /*_qa.html |
| 11 | Disallow: /*_meta.xml |
| 12 | Disallow: /*_jsnp.js |
| 13 | Disallow: /*_json.json |
| 14 | Disallow: /*_search.html |
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| 16 | Disallow: /*_jsnpStatic.js |
| 17 | Disallow: /*_rss.xml |
| 18 | Disallow: /*_mobile.mobile |
| 19 | Disallow: /*_mobile.xml |
| 20 | Disallow: /*_allCommentsClassicBlog.html |
| 21 | Disallow: /*_seo.html |
| 22 | Disallow: /*_nimbusJson.json |
| 23 | Disallow: /*_nimbusJsonp.js |
| 24 | Disallow: /*_nimbusJsonpStatic.js |
| 25 | Disallow: /*_modal.html |
| 26 | Disallow: /todays_paper/ |
| 27 | Disallow: /rw/WashingtonPost/Content/Epaper/ |
| 28 | Disallow: /ac2/ |
| 29 | Disallow: /blogs/slow-ride/ |
| 30 | Disallow: /local/blogsandcolumns/slow-ride-story-tanked |
| 31 | Disallow: /local/blogsandcolumns/slow-ride-story-achenblog |
| 32 | Disallow: /local/blogsandcolumns/slow-ride-stream-tanked |
| 33 | Disallow: /local/blogsandcolumns/slow-ride-front |
| 34 | Disallow: /utils/ |
| 35 | Disallow: /jobs/JS_JobSearchResult |
| 36 | Disallow: /jobs/UpdateJobEmployerCounterServlet |
| 37 | Disallow: /jobs/JS_Login |
| 38 | Disallow: /jobs/EU_UpdateJobEmployerCounter |
| 39 | Disallow: /blogs/nationals-journal-beta/ |
| 40 | Disallow: /blogs/test/ |
| 41 | Disallow: /posttv-beta/ |
| 42 | Disallow: /posttv/sponsored-video/ |
| 43 | Disallow: /posttv/c/trendex/ |
| 44 | Disallow: /posttv/c/video_search/ |
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| 47 | Disallow: /rweb/ |
| 48 | Disallow: /wp-stat/vrroom/ |
| 49 | Disallow: /classic-apps/ |
| 50 | Disallow: /news/test/ |
| 51 | Disallow: /tablet/ |
| 52 | Disallow: /news/tablet/ |
| 53 | Disallow: /sf/test/ |
| 54 | Disallow: /news/test-liveblog/ |
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| 65 | Disallow: /amphtml/blogs/test/ |
| 66 | Disallow: /amphtml/classic-apps/ |
| 67 | Disallow: /amphtml/utils/ |
| 68 | Disallow: /newsletter/ |
| 69 | Disallow: /wp-dyn/ |
| 70 | Disallow: /wp-srv/ |
| 71 | Disallow: /bandito/ |
| 72 | Disallow: /Fragment/SysConfig/ |
| 73 | Disallow: /recipes/search/ |
| 74 | Disallow: /talk/ |
| 75 | Disallow: /wp-stat/ad/ |
| 76 | Disallow: /*?*outputType=comment |
| 77 | Disallow: /pwapi-proxy/pwproxy/* |
| 78 | Disallow: /pwapiv2/ |
| 79 | Disallow: /*?*outputType=accessibility |
| 80 | Disallow: /wp-adv/ |
| 81 | Disallow: /newssearch/ |
| 82 | Disallow: /wp-admin/ |
| 83 | Disallow: /gdpr-consent/ |
| 84 | Disallow: /*?*outputType=tracking |
| 85 | Disallow: /tetro/ |
| 86 | Disallow: /comments/ |
| 87 | Disallow: /comments |
| 88 | Disallow: /search |
| 89 | Disallow: /s/* |
| 90 | Disallow: /embed/ |
| 91 | Disallow: /native/ |
| 92 | Disallow: /subscribe/braintree/ |
| 93 | Disallow: /subscribe/enterpriseportal/ |
| 94 | Disallow: /subscribe/foryouapi/ |
| 95 | Disallow: /subscribe/lagoon/ |
| 96 | Disallow: /subscribe/offers/service/ |
| 97 | Disallow: /subscribe/onsiteapi/ |
| 98 | Disallow: /subscribe/paywall/ |
| 99 | Disallow: /subscribe/person/ |
| 100 | Disallow: /subscribe/preferenceapi/ |
| 101 | Disallow: /subscribe/subscriptionapi/ |
| 102 | Disallow: /subscribe/user/ |
| 103 | Disallow: /subscribe/signin/ |
| 104 | Disallow: /subscribe/signup/ |
| 105 | Disallow: /wpost/proxy |
| 106 | Disallow: /ehf/ |
| 107 | Disallow: /ehf/* |
| 108 | Disallow: /subscribe/logging/* |
| 109 | Disallow: /blogs/* |
| 110 | Disallow: /gog/* |
| 111 | Disallow: /arcio/fact-checker/ |
| 112 | Disallow: /recipes/*?q= |
| 113 | Disallow: /cookie-policy/ |
| 114 | Disallow: /discussions/2021/09/13/cookie-policy/ |
| 115 | Disallow: /discussions/2021/09/13/cookie-policy-eea/ |
| 116 | Disallow: /privacy-policy/ |
| 117 | |
| 118 | User-agent: Twitterbot |
| 119 | Allow: /posttv-beta/ |
| 120 | Disallow: /amphtml/* |
| 121 | |
| 122 | User-agent: SemrushBot |
| 123 | Disallow: /licensing-syndication |
| 124 | Disallow: /licensing-syndication/* |
| 125 | |
| 126 | User-agent: Amazonbot |
| 127 | Disallow: / |
| 128 | Allow: /wp-apps/imrs.php |
| 129 | |
| 130 | |
| 131 | # Disallow Rules |
| 132 | |
| 133 | User-agent: AhrefsBot |
| 134 | Disallow: / |
| 135 | |
| 136 | User-agent: anthropic-ai |
| 137 | Disallow: / |
| 138 | Allow: /creativegroup/ |
| 139 | Allow: /advertising/ |
| 140 | |
| 141 | User-agent: Applebot-Extended |
| 142 | Disallow: / |
| 143 | Allow: /creativegroup/ |
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| 146 | User-agent: archive.org_bot |
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| 149 | User-agent: ArchiveBot |
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| 152 | User-agent: Arquivo-web-crawler |
| 153 | Disallow: / |
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| 155 | User-agent: AwarioRssBot |
| 156 | Disallow: / |
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| 158 | User-agent: AwarioSmartBot |
| 159 | Disallow: / |
| 160 | |
| 161 | User-agent: Bytespider |
| 162 | Disallow: / |
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| 165 | |
| 166 | User-agent: CCBot |
| 167 | Disallow: / |
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| 170 | |
| 171 | User-agent: Claude-Web |
| 172 | Disallow: / |
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| 174 | Allow: /advertising/ |
| 175 | |
| 176 | User-agent: ClaudeBot |
| 177 | Disallow: / |
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| 180 | |
| 181 | User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler |
| 182 | Disallow: / |
| 183 | Allow: /creativegroup/ |
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| 185 | |
| 186 | User-agent: DataForSeoBot |
| 187 | Disallow: / |
| 188 | |
| 189 | User-agent: Diffbot |
| 190 | Disallow: / |
| 191 | Allow: /creativegroup/ |
| 192 | Allow: /advertising/ |
| 193 | |
| 194 | User-agent: europarchive.org |
| 195 | Disallow: / |
| 196 | |
| 197 | User-agent: FacebookBot |
| 198 | Disallow: / |
| 199 | Allow: /creativegroup/ |
| 200 | Allow: /advertising/ |
| 201 | |
| 202 | User-agent: heritrix |
| 203 | Disallow: / |
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| 205 | User-agent: ia_archiver |
| 206 | Disallow: / |
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| 211 | User-agent: ImagesiftBot |
| 212 | Disallow: / |
| 213 | |
| 214 | User-agent: LinkArchiver |
| 215 | Disallow: / |
| 216 | |
| 217 | User-agent: meta-externalagent |
| 218 | Disallow: / |
| 219 | Allow: /creativegroup/ |
| 220 | Allow: /advertising/ |
| 221 | |
| 222 | User-agent: meta-externalfetcher |
| 223 | Disallow: / |
| 224 | Allow: /creativegroup/ |
| 225 | Allow: /advertising/ |
| 226 | |
| 227 | User-agent: Nicecrawler |
| 228 | Disallow: / |
| 229 | |
| 230 | User-agent: omgili |
| 231 | Disallow: / |
| 232 | Allow: /creativegroup/ |
| 233 | Allow: /advertising/ |
| 234 | |
| 235 | User-agent: omgilibot |
| 236 | Disallow: / |
| 237 | Allow: /creativegroup/ |
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| 239 | |
| 240 | User-agent: PerplexityBot |
| 241 | Disallow: / |
| 242 | Allow: /creativegroup/ |
| 243 | Allow: /advertising/ |
| 244 | |
| 245 | User-agent: Primalbot |
| 246 | Disallow: / |
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| 248 | User-agent: web-archive-net.com.bot |
| 249 | Disallow: / |
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| 251 | User-agent: YandexBot |
| 252 | Disallow: / |
| 253 | Allow: /creativegroup/ |
| 254 | Allow: /advertising/ |
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| 256 | Sitemap: https://www.washingtonpost.com/sitemaps/sitemap.xml.gz |
| 257 | Sitemap: https://www.washingtonpost.com/sitemaps/news-sitemap.xml.gz |
| 258 | Sitemap: https://www.washingtonpost.com/sitemaps/author-sitemap.xml.gz |
| 259 | Sitemap: https://www.washingtonpost.com/sitemaps/section-sitemap.xml.gz |
| 260 | Sitemap: https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/results/sitemap.xml |
| 261 | Sitemap: https://www.washingtonpost.com/arcio/sitemap/video/index/ |
| 262 | Sitemap: https://www.washingtonpost.com/creativegroup/sitemaps/sitemap.xml |