# Boats in Detail — robots.txt
#
# Search engines are welcome to index our public pages. Any other automated copying, scraping or crawling of
# Boats in Detail, including to train AI models or to build a copy or competing database, is not permitted
# without our written permission. See our Terms of Service: https://boatsindetail.com/terms#rules
# Content © Boats in Detail. All rights reserved.

# ---------------------------------------------------------------- everyone: public pages only
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /portal
Disallow: /account
Disallow: /messages
Disallow: /dock
Disallow: /mechanic
Disallow: /doc
Disallow: /invite
Disallow: /unsubscribe
Disallow: /reset
Disallow: /signin
Disallow: /guide-preview
Disallow: /bot
# members-only pages (search engines can't sign in). The library lists are members-only, but each boat, engine and
# equipment page under /boats/, /engines/ and /equipment/ has a public preview, so only the list addresses are listed.
Disallow: /boats$
Disallow: /boats?
Disallow: /engines$
Disallow: /engines?
Disallow: /equipment$
Disallow: /equipment?
Disallow: /manuals
Disallow: /trading
Disallow: /forums
Disallow: /forum
Disallow: /thread
Disallow: /experts

# ---------------------------------------------------------------- AI training crawlers: not permitted
# (Google-Extended and Applebot-Extended only control AI training; they don't affect Google or Apple search results.)
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: anthropic-ai
User-agent: Claude-Web
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: Google-Extended
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
User-agent: Bytespider
User-agent: meta-externalagent
User-agent: FacebookBot
User-agent: cohere-ai
User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler
User-agent: Diffbot
User-agent: Omgilibot
User-agent: omgili
User-agent: ImagesiftBot
User-agent: Timpibot
User-agent: AI2Bot
User-agent: Ai2Bot-Dolma
User-agent: PanguBot
User-agent: Kangaroo Bot
User-agent: Webzio-Extended
Disallow: /

# ---------------------------------------------------------------- SEO-tool and data-harvesting crawlers: not permitted
# (These copy sites into their own databases. Blocking them doesn't affect search rankings.)
User-agent: AhrefsBot
User-agent: SemrushBot
User-agent: MJ12bot
User-agent: DotBot
User-agent: BLEXBot
User-agent: DataForSeoBot
User-agent: SeznamBot
User-agent: serpstatbot
User-agent: Barkrowler
User-agent: magpie-crawler
User-agent: ZoominfoBot
User-agent: HTTrack
User-agent: Wget
User-agent: SiteSucker
User-agent: WebCopier
User-agent: WebZIP
User-agent: Teleport
User-agent: Offline Explorer
Disallow: /

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