The Sydney Morning Herald / robots.txt snapshot
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| 1 | # NINE ENTERTAINMENT CO. POLICY STATEMENT |
| 2 | # Nine Entertainment Co expressly prohibits the use of any Nine |
| 3 | # content or data, including associated metadata, for any machine |
| 4 | # learning and/or artificial intelligence including for the purposes |
| 5 | # of training or development of AI technology, tools and machine |
| 6 | # learning language models. |
| 7 | # View our terms of use - https://login.nine.com.au/terms?client_id=smh |
| 8 | |
| 9 | # Sitemaps |
| 10 | Sitemap: https://www.smh.com.au/sitemaps/news/brands/smh |
| 11 | Sitemap: https://www.smh.com.au/sitemaps/smh-sitemaps-videos.xml |
| 12 | Sitemap: https://www.smh.com.au/sitemaps/smh-sitemaps-articles.xml |
| 13 | Sitemap: https://www.smh.com.au/rss/feed.xml |
| 14 | |
| 15 | # ----------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 16 | # 1. GENERAL CRAWLER RULES (Allowing standard search engines) |
| 17 | # ----------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 18 | |
| 19 | # All visitors |
| 20 | User-agent: * |
| 21 | Allow: / |
| 22 | Disallow: /search?text=* |
| 23 | Disallow: *?app=* |
| 24 | Disallow: *?do=* |
| 25 | Disallow: *?ocid=* |
| 26 | Disallow: *?ref=* |
| 27 | |
| 28 | # ----------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 29 | # 2. SPECIFIC BLOCKS FOR AI, LLM, AND DATA-SCRAPING AGENTS |
| 30 | # ----------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 31 | |
| 32 | |
| 33 | ########## |
| 34 | # Google AI Agents (Allows standard Googlebot to continue crawling) |
| 35 | User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot |
| 36 | Disallow: / |
| 37 | User-agent: Google-Extended |
| 38 | Disallow: / |
| 39 | |
| 40 | ########## |
| 41 | # OpenAI |
| 42 | User-agent: ChatGPT-User |
| 43 | Disallow: / |
| 44 | User-agent: GPTBot |
| 45 | Disallow: / |
| 46 | User-agent: OAI-SearchBot |
| 47 | Disallow: / |
| 48 | User-agent: OAISearch |
| 49 | Disallow: / |
| 50 | |
| 51 | ########## |
| 52 | # Anthropic |
| 53 | User-agent: anthropic-ai |
| 54 | Disallow: / |
| 55 | User-agent: claude-web |
| 56 | Disallow: / |
| 57 | User-agent: claudebot |
| 58 | Disallow: / |
| 59 | |
| 60 | ########## |
| 61 | # Meta (Facebook/LLaMA) |
| 62 | User-agent: facebookbot |
| 63 | Disallow: / |
| 64 | User-agent: meta-externalagent |
| 65 | Disallow: / |
| 66 | User-agent: meta-externalfetcher |
| 67 | Disallow: / |
| 68 | |
| 69 | ########## |
| 70 | # Apple |
| 71 | User-agent: applebot-extended |
| 72 | Disallow: / |
| 73 | |
| 74 | ########## |
| 75 | # Perplexity AI |
| 76 | User-agent: perplexitybot |
| 77 | Disallow: / |
| 78 | |
| 79 | ########## |
| 80 | # Cohere |
| 81 | User-agent: cohere-ai |
| 82 | Disallow: / |
| 83 | |
| 84 | ########## |
| 85 | # You.com |
| 86 | User-agent: youbot |
| 87 | Disallow: / |
| 88 | |
| 89 | ########## |
| 90 | # Amazon |
| 91 | User-agent: amazonbot |
| 92 | Disallow: / |
| 93 | |
| 94 | ########## |
| 95 | # Alibaba Cloud |
| 96 | User-agent: aliyunsecbot |
| 97 | Disallow: / |
| 98 | |
| 99 | ########## |
| 100 | # Audigent |
| 101 | User-agent: audigentadbot |
| 102 | Disallow: / |
| 103 | |
| 104 | ########## |
| 105 | # Awario |
| 106 | User-agent: awariorssbot |
| 107 | Disallow: / |
| 108 | User-agent: awariosmartbot |
| 109 | Disallow: / |
| 110 | |
| 111 | ########## |
| 112 | # BLEX AI |
| 113 | User-agent: blexbot |
| 114 | Disallow: / |
| 115 | |
| 116 | ########## |
| 117 | # ByteDance |
| 118 | User-agent: bytespider |
| 119 | Disallow: / |
| 120 | |
| 121 | ########## |
| 122 | # Common Crawl |
| 123 | User-agent: ccbot |
| 124 | Disallow: / |
| 125 | |
| 126 | ########## |
| 127 | # DataForSEO |
| 128 | User-agent: dataforseobot |
| 129 | Disallow: / |
| 130 | |
| 131 | ########## |
| 132 | # Diffbot |
| 133 | User-agent: diffbot |
| 134 | Disallow: / |
| 135 | |
| 136 | ########## |
| 137 | # DuckDuckGo |
| 138 | User-agent: duckassistbot |
| 139 | Disallow: / |
| 140 | |
| 141 | ########## |
| 142 | # Echobox |
| 143 | User-agent: echoboxbot |
| 144 | Disallow: / |
| 145 | |
| 146 | ########## |
| 147 | # Friendly Technologies |
| 148 | User-agent: friendlycrawler |
| 149 | Disallow: / |
| 150 | |
| 151 | ########## |
| 152 | # Internet Archive / "Wayback Machine" |
| 153 | User-agent: ia_archiver |
| 154 | Disallow: / |
| 155 | |
| 156 | ########## |
| 157 | # ImageSift |
| 158 | User-agent: imagesiftbot |
| 159 | Disallow: / |
| 160 | |
| 161 | ########## |
| 162 | # MyCentralAI |
| 163 | User-agent: mycentralaiscraperbot |
| 164 | Disallow: / |
| 165 | |
| 166 | ########## |
| 167 | # NewsNow |
| 168 | User-agent: newsnow |
| 169 | Disallow: / |
| 170 | |
| 171 | ########## |
| 172 | # News-Please (Open-source) |
| 173 | User-agent: news-please |
| 174 | Disallow: / |
| 175 | |
| 176 | ########## |
| 177 | # Omgili |
| 178 | User-agent: omgili |
| 179 | Disallow: / |
| 180 | User-agent: omgilibot |
| 181 | Disallow: / |
| 182 | User-agent: webzio-extended |
| 183 | Disallow: / |
| 184 | |
| 185 | ########## |
| 186 | # Peer39 |
| 187 | User-agent: peer39_crawler |
| 188 | Disallow: / |
| 189 | User-agent: peer39_crawler/1.0 |
| 190 | Disallow: / |
| 191 | |
| 192 | ########## |
| 193 | # QuillBot |
| 194 | User-agent: quillbot.com |
| 195 | Disallow: / |
| 196 | |
| 197 | ########## |
| 198 | # Quora |
| 199 | User-agent: quora-bot |
| 200 | Disallow: / |
| 201 | |
| 202 | ########## |
| 203 | # Scrapy (Open-source) |
| 204 | User-agent: scrapy |
| 205 | Disallow: / |
| 206 | |
| 207 | ########## |
| 208 | # Seekr |
| 209 | User-agent: seekrbot |
| 210 | Disallow: / |
| 211 | |
| 212 | ########## |
| 213 | # Seznam.cz |
| 214 | User-agent: seznamhomepagecrawler |
| 215 | Disallow: / |
| 216 | |
| 217 | ########## |
| 218 | # TaraGroup |
| 219 | User-agent: taragroup intelligent bot |
| 220 | Disallow: / |
| 221 | |
| 222 | ########## |
| 223 | # Timpi |
| 224 | User-agent: timpibot |
| 225 | Disallow: / |
| 226 | |
| 227 | ########## |
| 228 | # Turnitin |
| 229 | User-agent: turnitinbot |
| 230 | Disallow: / |
| 231 | |
| 232 | ########## |
| 233 | # Others |
| 234 | User-agent: viennatinybot |
| 235 | Disallow: / |
| 236 | User-agent: jetslide |
| 237 | Disallow: / |
| 238 | User-agent: magpie-crawler |
| 239 | Disallow: / |
| 240 | User-agent: poseidon research crawler |
| 241 | Disallow: / |
| 242 |