# sortOTT robots.txt
# Allow real search engines (they send users back to the site)
# Block AI training crawlers (they consume bandwidth + function quota without sending traffic)

# ─── Allowed: real search engines ───
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /

User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Slurp
Allow: /

User-agent: Yandex
Allow: /

User-agent: Baiduspider
Allow: /

User-agent: facebookexternalhit
Allow: /

User-agent: Twitterbot
Allow: /

User-agent: LinkedInBot
Allow: /

User-agent: WhatsApp
Allow: /

User-agent: TelegramBot
Allow: /

# ─── Blocked: AI training crawlers (no user traffic, just consume resources) ───
User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Disallow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: cohere-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: Diffbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ImagesiftBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Omgilibot
Disallow: /

User-agent: FacebookBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /

# ─── Catch-all: anything else, allow ───
User-agent: *
Allow: /

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