About ai.robots.txt
ai.robots.txt is a community-driven open-source list of user-agents for AI agents, scrapers, and web crawlers. The project provides pre-configured templates for robots.txt, .htaccess, Nginx, Caddy, HAProxy, and Traefik to help website owners easily restrict or block AI data harvesting.
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Key Features
- Provides a comprehensive, community-maintained list of AI web crawler user-agents
- Includes ready-to-use configuration templates for Nginx, .htaccess, HAProxy, Caddy, and Traefik
- Fully open-source and free to implement under the permissive MIT license
- Supports automated updates through structured JSON configurations and GitHub Actions
- Helps website owners protect their content from unauthorized AI model training scraping
- Requires manual web server configuration or plugin setup to implement the blocks
- Relies on crawlers respecting robots.txt directives or using consistent user-agent headers
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