# robots.txt for http://www.wikipedia.org/ and friends adapted to our wikis # # Please note: There are a lot of pages on this site, and there are # some misbehaved spiders out there that go _way_ too fast. If you're # irresponsible, your access to the site may be blocked. # # Observed spamming large amounts of https://en.wikipedia.org/?curid=NNNNNN # and ignoring 429 ratelimit responses, claims to respect robots: # http://mj12bot.com/ User-agent: MJ12bot Disallow: / # advertising-related bots: User-agent: Mediapartners-Google* Disallow: / # Wikipedia work bots: User-agent: IsraBot Disallow: User-agent: Orthogaffe Disallow: # Crawlers that are kind enough to obey, but which we'd rather not have # unless they're feeding search engines. User-agent: UbiCrawler Disallow: / User-agent: DOC Disallow: / User-agent: Zao Disallow: / # Some bots are known to be trouble, particularly those designed to copy # entire sites. Please obey robots.txt. User-agent: sitecheck.internetseer.com Disallow: / User-agent: Zealbot Disallow: / User-agent: MSIECrawler Disallow: / User-agent: SiteSnagger Disallow: / User-agent: WebStripper Disallow: / User-agent: WebCopier Disallow: / User-agent: Fetch Disallow: / User-agent: Offline Explorer Disallow: / User-agent: Teleport Disallow: / User-agent: TeleportPro Disallow: / User-agent: WebZIP Disallow: / User-agent: linko Disallow: / User-agent: HTTrack Disallow: / User-agent: Microsoft.URL.Control Disallow: / User-agent: Xenu Disallow: / User-agent: larbin Disallow: / User-agent: libwww Disallow: / User-agent: ZyBORG Disallow: / User-agent: Download Ninja Disallow: / # Misbehaving: requests much too fast: User-agent: fast Disallow: / # # Sorry, wget in its recursive mode is a frequent problem. # Please read the man page and use it properly; there is a # --wait option you can use to set the delay between hits, # for instance. # User-agent: wget Disallow: / # # The 'grub' distributed client has been *very* poorly behaved. # User-agent: grub-client Disallow: / # # Doesn't follow robots.txt anyway, but... # User-agent: k2spider Disallow: / # # Hits many times per second, not acceptable # http://www.nameprotect.com/botinfo.html User-agent: NPBot Disallow: / # A capture bot, downloads gazillions of pages with no public benefit # http://www.webreaper.net/ User-agent: WebReaper Disallow: / # some AI crawlers User-agent: Amazonbot Disallow: / User-agent: Applebot-Extended Disallow: / User-agent: Bytespider Disallow: / User-agent: CCBot Disallow: / User-agent: ClaudeBot Disallow: / User-agent: Google-Extended Disallow: / User-agent: GPTBot Disallow: / User-agent: meta-externalagent Disallow: / # # Friendly, low-speed bots are welcome viewing article pages, but not # dynamically-generated pages please. # # Inktomi's "Slurp" can read a minimum delay between hits; if your # bot supports such a thing using the 'Crawl-delay' or another # instruction, please let us know. # # There is a special exception for API mobileview to allow dynamic # mobile web & app views to load section content. # These views aren't HTTP-cached but use parser cache aggressively # and don't expose special: pages etc. # # Another exception is for REST API documentation, located at # /api/rest_v1/?doc. # User-agent: * Allow: /w/load.php? Allow: /api/rest_v1/?doc Disallow: /w/ Disallow: /api/ Disallow: /trap/ Disallow: /wiki/Special: Disallow: /w/index.php?*title=Special: Disallow: /w/index.php?*Special:RecentChangesLinked Disallow: /w/index.php?action=edit Crawl-delay: 1 User-agent: AddSearchBot User-agent: AI2Bot User-agent: AI2Bot-DeepResearchEval User-agent: Ai2Bot-Dolma User-agent: aiHitBot User-agent: amazon-kendra User-agent: Amazonbot User-agent: AmazonBuyForMe User-agent: Amzn-SearchBot User-agent: Amzn-User User-agent: Andibot User-agent: Anomura User-agent: anthropic-ai User-agent: Applebot User-agent: Applebot-Extended User-agent: atlassian-bot User-agent: Awario User-agent: AzureAI-SearchBot User-agent: bedrockbot User-agent: bigsur.ai User-agent: Bravebot User-agent: Brightbot 1.0 User-agent: BuddyBot User-agent: Bytespider User-agent: CCBot User-agent: Channel3Bot User-agent: ChatGLM-Spider User-agent: ChatGPT Agent User-agent: ChatGPT-User User-agent: Claude-SearchBot User-agent: Claude-User User-agent: Claude-Web User-agent: ClaudeBot User-agent: Cloudflare-AutoRAG User-agent: CloudVertexBot User-agent: cohere-ai User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler User-agent: Cotoyogi User-agent: Crawl4AI User-agent: Crawlspace User-agent: Datenbank Crawler User-agent: DeepSeekBot User-agent: Devin User-agent: Diffbot User-agent: DuckAssistBot User-agent: Echobot Bot User-agent: EchoboxBot User-agent: FacebookBot User-agent: facebookexternalhit User-agent: Factset_spyderbot User-agent: FirecrawlAgent User-agent: FriendlyCrawler User-agent: Gemini-Deep-Research User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot User-agent: Google-Extended User-agent: Google-Firebase User-agent: Google-NotebookLM User-agent: GoogleAgent-Mariner User-agent: GoogleOther User-agent: GoogleOther-Image User-agent: GoogleOther-Video User-agent: GPTBot User-agent: iAskBot User-agent: iaskspider User-agent: iaskspider/2.0 User-agent: IbouBot User-agent: ICC-Crawler User-agent: ImagesiftBot User-agent: imageSpider User-agent: img2dataset User-agent: ISSCyberRiskCrawler User-agent: kagi-fetcher User-agent: Kangaroo Bot User-agent: KlaviyoAIBot User-agent: KunatoCrawler User-agent: laion-huggingface-processor User-agent: LAIONDownloader User-agent: LCC User-agent: LinerBot User-agent: Linguee Bot User-agent: LinkupBot User-agent: Manus-User User-agent: meta-externalagent User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent User-agent: meta-externalfetcher User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher User-agent: meta-webindexer User-agent: MistralAI-User User-agent: MistralAI-User/1.0 User-agent: MyCentralAIScraperBot User-agent: netEstate Imprint Crawler User-agent: NotebookLM User-agent: NovaAct User-agent: OAI-SearchBot User-agent: omgili User-agent: omgilibot User-agent: OpenAI User-agent: Operator User-agent: PanguBot User-agent: Panscient User-agent: panscient.com User-agent: Perplexity-User User-agent: PerplexityBot User-agent: PetalBot User-agent: PhindBot User-agent: Poggio-Citations User-agent: Poseidon Research Crawler User-agent: QualifiedBot User-agent: QuillBot User-agent: quillbot.com User-agent: SBIntuitionsBot User-agent: Scrapy User-agent: SemrushBot-OCOB User-agent: SemrushBot-SWA User-agent: ShapBot User-agent: Sidetrade indexer bot User-agent: Spider User-agent: TavilyBot User-agent: TerraCotta User-agent: Thinkbot User-agent: TikTokSpider User-agent: Timpibot User-agent: TwinAgent User-agent: VelenPublicWebCrawler User-agent: WARDBot User-agent: Webzio-Extended User-agent: webzio-extended User-agent: wpbot User-agent: WRTNBot User-agent: YaK User-agent: YandexAdditional User-agent: YandexAdditionalBot User-agent: YouBot User-agent: ZanistaBot Disallow: /