Robot.txt file for: archiveofourown.org

      # See https://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html for documentation on how to use the robots.txt file

User-agent:	*
Disallow: /works? # cruel but efficient
Disallow: /autocomplete/
Disallow: /downloads/
Disallow: /external_works/
# disallow indexing of search results
Disallow: /bookmarks/search?
Disallow: /people/search?
Disallow: /tags/search?
Disallow: /works/search?

User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /autocomplete/
Disallow: /downloads/
Disallow: /external_works/
# Googlebot is smart and knows pattern matching
Disallow: /works/*?
Disallow: /*search?
Disallow: /*?*query=
Disallow: /*?*sort_
Disallow: /*?*selected_tags
Disallow: /*?*view_adult
Disallow: /*?*tag_id
Disallow: /*?*pseud_id
Disallow: /*?*user_id
Disallow: /*?*pseud=

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: Slurp
Crawl-delay: 30