MediaWiki:Robots.txt
- robots.txt for http://www.wikipedia.org/ and friends
- 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.
- 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: /
- Wayback Machine: defaults and whether to index user-pages
- FIXME: Complete the removal of this block, per T7582.
- User-agent: archive.org_bot
- Allow: /
- 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/api.php?action=mobileview& Allow: /w/load.php? Allow: /api/rest_v1/?doc Disallow: /w/ Disallow: /api/ Disallow: /trap/
