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AI crawler access (latest snapshot, 13h ago)

⛔blocked restricted ✅allowed faded = inherited from the * wildcard group

✅GPTBot

✅ChatGPT-User

✅OAI-SearchBot

✅ClaudeBot

✅Claude-User

✅Claude-SearchBot

✅anthropic-ai

✅Claude-Web

✅CCBot

✅Google-Extended

✅Applebot-Extended

✅PerplexityBot

✅Perplexity-User

✅Bytespider

✅Amazonbot

✅FacebookBot

✅meta-externalagent

✅meta-externalfetcher

✅cohere-ai

✅AI2Bot

✅Diffbot

✅omgili

✅YouBot

✅DuckAssistBot

✅MistralAI-User

✅PanguBot

✅Timpibot

Current robots.txt 641 bytes · sha256 e487fb28ff96 · raw

# Guidelines for automated access and crawling Read the Docs: https://docs.readthedocs.com/platform/stable/automated-access.html
#
# Bots should not be scraping from the Read the Docs maintainer dashboard in bulk.
# Automated access to documentation sites is allowed in accordance with the policies above.
# For everything else, use our API: https://docs.readthedocs.com/platform/stable/api/index.html

User-agent: *
Disallow: /accounts/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /profiles/
Disallow: /projects/*/builds/
Disallow: /projects/tags/
Disallow: /search/

# This was hitting our site and causing a lot of issues
User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /

Change history

initial 13h ago snapshot
- First snapshot of robots.txt archived