From d8e138ae2d6f082c3252c693af8b7d9e93a2dbe8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel O'Connor <daniel.oconnor@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2025 00:27:57 +0930
Subject: [PATCH] Create robots.txt based on wikipedia

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 public/robots.txt | 142 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 142 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 public/robots.txt

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+# robots.txt for based on the one for http://www.wikipedia.org/ and friends
+
+# 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: /
+
+# Per their statement, semrushbot respects crawl-delay directives
+# We want them to overall stay within reasonable request rates to
+# the backend (20 rps); keeping in mind that the crawl-delay will 
+# be applied by site and not globally by the bot, 5 seconds seem
+# like a reasonable approximation
+User-agent: SemrushBot
+Crawl-delay: 5
+
+#
+# Friendly, low-speed bots are welcome viewing pages, but not
+# dynamically-generated pages please.
+#
+# Another exception is for REST API documentation, located at
+# /api/rest_v1/?doc.
+#
+User-agent: *
+Disallow: /api/