# YtThumbnailDown — robots.txt
# https://ytthumbnaildown.org

# All general crawlers
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/

# Google crawlers
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Allow: /

# Bing
User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/

# AI crawlers — allowed (GEO: we want AI Overview citations)
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: cohere-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /

# Disallow junk/scraper bots
User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DotBot
Disallow: /

Sitemap: https://ytthumbnaildown.org/sitemap.xml