From dcab555a6b46de69a2c2a26f1fe409017ad229f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daenney <daenney@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2024 11:01:37 +0200
Subject: [chore] Update robots.txt (#2856)

This updates the robots.txt based on the list of the ai.robots.txt
repository. We can look at automating that at some point.

It's worth pointing out that some robots, namely the ones by Bytedance,
are known to ignore robots.txt entirely.
---
 internal/web/robots.go | 64 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------------
 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)

(limited to 'internal/web/robots.go')

diff --git a/internal/web/robots.go b/internal/web/robots.go
index 2511ee1d3..58b541413 100644
--- a/internal/web/robots.go
+++ b/internal/web/robots.go
@@ -29,45 +29,43 @@ const (
 	robotsTxt           = `# GoToSocial robots.txt -- to edit, see internal/web/robots.go
 # More info @ https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/robots/intro
 
-# Before we commence, a giant fuck you to ChatGPT in particular.
-# https://platform.openai.com/docs/gptbot
-User-agent: GPTBot
-Disallow: /
-
-# As of September 2023, GPTBot and ChatGPT-User are equivalent. But there's no telling
-# when OpenAI might decide to change that, so block this one too.
-User-agent: ChatGPT-User
-Disallow: /
-
-# And a giant fuck you to Google Bard and their other generative AI ventures too.
-# https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/overview-google-crawlers
-User-agent: Google-Extended
-Disallow: /
-
-# Block CommonCrawl. Used in training LLMs and specifically GPT-3.
-# https://commoncrawl.org/faq
+# AI scrapers and the like.
+# https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt/
+User-agent: AdsBot-Google
+User-agent: Amazonbot
+User-agent: anthropic-ai
+User-agent: Applebot
+User-agent: AwarioRssBot
+User-agent: AwarioSmartBot
+User-agent: Bytespider
 User-agent: CCBot
-Disallow: /
-
-# Block Omgilike/Webz.io, a "Big Web Data" engine.
-# https://webz.io/blog/web-data/what-is-the-omgili-bot-and-why-is-it-crawling-your-website/
-User-agent: Omgilibot
-Disallow: /
-
-# Block Faceboobot, because Meta.
-# https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/bot
+User-agent: ChatGPT-User
+User-agent: ClaudeBot
+User-agent: Claude-Web
+User-agent: cohere-ai
+User-agent: DataForSeoBot
 User-agent: FacebookBot
+User-agent: FriendlyCrawler
+User-agent: Google-Extended
+User-agent: GoogleOther
+User-agent: GPTBot
+User-agent: ImagesiftBot
+User-agent: magpie-crawler
+User-agent: Meltwater
+User-agent: omgili
+User-agent: omgilibot
+User-agent: peer39_crawler
+User-agent: peer39_crawler/1.0
+User-agent: PerplexityBot
+User-agent: PiplBot
+User-agent: Seekr
+User-agent: YouBot
 Disallow: /
 
 # Well-known.dev crawler. Indexes stuff under /.well-known.
 # https://well-known.dev/about/
-User-agent: WellKnownBot
-Disallow: /
-
-# Block Amazonbot, because Amazon.
-# https://developer.amazon.com/amazonbot
-User-agent: Amazonbot
-Disallow: /
+User-agent: WellKnownBot     
+Disallow: /   
 
 # Rules for everything else.
 User-agent: *
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