# advertising-related bots: User-agent: Mediapartners-Google* Disallow: / # Crawlers that are kind enough to obey, but which we'd rather not have # unless they're feeding search engines. User-agent: UbiCrawler User-agent: DOC 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 User-agent: Zealbot User-agent: MSIECrawler User-agent: SiteSnagger User-agent: WebStripper User-agent: WebCopier User-agent: Fetch User-agent: Offline Explorer User-agent: Teleport User-agent: TeleportPro User-agent: WebZIP User-agent: linko User-agent: HTTrack User-agent: Microsoft.URL.Control User-agent: Xenu User-agent: larbin User-agent: libwww User-agent: ZyBORG User-agent: Download Ninja 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 User-agent: NPBot Disallow: / # A capture bot, downloads gazillions of pages with no public benefit User-agent: WebReaper Disallow: / # Friendly, low-speed bots are welcome viewing pages, but not everything User-agent: * Disallow: /admin # Some RES2 stuff, maybe some crawlers obey these rules. Crawl-delay: 3 # wait at least 3 seconds for crawling Request-rate: 1/3 # maximum rate is one page every 3 seconds Visit-time: 0100-0630 # only visit between 1:00 AM and 6:30 AM UT (GMT)