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Blocked · GPTBot → /wiki/Special:Search
Blocked by “Disallow: /wiki/Special:” (line 156) in the group for *.
Search and AI crawlers on this path
| Crawler | Who | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Googlebot | Google Search | blocked |
| Bingbot | Bing | blocked |
| DuckDuckBot | DuckDuckGo | blocked |
| Applebot | Apple | blocked |
| GPTBot | OpenAI training | blocked |
| OAI-SearchBot | ChatGPT search | blocked |
| ClaudeBot | Anthropic | blocked |
| Google-Extended | Google AI training | blocked |
| PerplexityBot | Perplexity | blocked |
| CCBot | Common Crawl | blocked |
| Bytespider | ByteDance | blocked |
| Meta-ExternalAgent | Meta AI | blocked |
Notes
- irobots.txt redirects (301 → 301) to https://en.wikipedia.org/robots.txt. Crawlers follow up to five redirects.
- iCrawl-delay is set. Bing respects it; Google ignores it.
Sitemaps
The file https://en.wikipedia.org/robots.txt · 27.6 KB
1# robots.txt for http://www.wikipedia.org/ and friends 2# 3# Please note: There are a lot of pages on this site, and there are 4# some misbehaved spiders out there that go _way_ too fast. If you're 5# irresponsible, your access to the site may be blocked. 6# 7 8# Observed spamming large amounts of https://en.wikipedia.org/?curid=NNNNNN 9# and ignoring 429 ratelimit responses, claims to respect robots: 10# http://mj12bot.com/ 11User-agent: MJ12bot 12Disallow: / 13 14# advertising-related bots: 15User-agent: Mediapartners-Google* 16Disallow: / 17 18# Wikipedia work bots: 19User-agent: IsraBot 20Disallow: 21 22User-agent: Orthogaffe 23Disallow: 24 25# Crawlers that are kind enough to obey, but which we'd rather not have 26# unless they're feeding search engines. 27User-agent: UbiCrawler 28Disallow: / 29 30User-agent: DOC 31Disallow: / 32 33User-agent: Zao 34Disallow: / 35 36# Some bots are known to be trouble, particularly those designed to copy 37# entire sites. Please obey robots.txt. 38User-agent: sitecheck.internetseer.com 39Disallow: / 40 41User-agent: Zealbot 42Disallow: / 43 44User-agent: MSIECrawler 45Disallow: / 46 47User-agent: SiteSnagger 48Disallow: / 49 50User-agent: WebStripper 51Disallow: / 52 53User-agent: WebCopier 54Disallow: / 55 56User-agent: Fetch 57Disallow: / 58 59User-agent: Offline Explorer 60Disallow: / 61 62User-agent: Teleport 63Disallow: / 64 65User-agent: TeleportPro 66Disallow: / 67 68User-agent: WebZIP 69Disallow: / 70 71User-agent: linko 72Disallow: / 73 74User-agent: HTTrack 75Disallow: / 76 77User-agent: Microsoft.URL.Control 78Disallow: / 79 80User-agent: Xenu 81Disallow: / 82 83User-agent: larbin 84Disallow: / 85 86User-agent: libwww 87Disallow: / 88 89User-agent: ZyBORG 90Disallow: / 91 92User-agent: Download Ninja 93Disallow: / 94 95# Misbehaving, requests much too fast 96User-agent: fast 97Disallow: / 98 99# Sorry, wget in its recursive mode is a frequent problem. 100# Please read the man page and use it properly; there is a 101# --wait option you can use to set the delay between hits, 102# for instance. 103User-agent: wget 104Disallow: / 105 106# The 'grub' distributed client has been *very* poorly behaved. 107User-agent: grub-client 108Disallow: / 109 110# Doesn't follow robots.txt anyway, but... 111User-agent: k2spider 112Disallow: / 113 114# Hits many times per second, not acceptable 115# http://www.nameprotect.com/botinfo.html 116User-agent: NPBot 117Disallow: / 118 119# A capture bot, downloads gazillions of pages with no public benefit 120# http://www.webreaper.net/ 121User-agent: WebReaper 122Disallow: / 123 124# Per their statement, semrushbot respects crawl-delay directives 125# We want them to overall stay within reasonable request rates to 126# the backend (20 rps); keeping in mind that the crawl-delay will 127# be applied by site and not globally by the bot, 5 seconds seem 128# like a reasonable approximation 129User-agent: SemrushBot 130Crawl-delay: 5 131 132# 133# Friendly, low-speed bots are welcome viewing article pages, but not 134# dynamically-generated pages please. 135# 136# Inktomi's "Slurp" can read a minimum delay between hits; if your 137# bot supports such a thing using the 'Crawl-delay' or another 138# instruction, please let us know. 139# 140# There is a special exception for API mobileview to allow dynamic 141# mobile web & app views to load section content. 142# These views aren't HTTP-cached but use parser cache aggressively 143# and don't expose Special-pages and other uncached content. 144# 145# Another exception is for REST API documentation, located at 146# /api/rest_v1/?doc. 147# 148User-agent: * 149Allow: /w/api.php?action=mobileview& 150Allow: /w/load.php? 151Allow: /api/rest_v1/?doc 152Allow: /w/rest.php/site/v1/sitemap 153Disallow: /w/ 154Disallow: /api/ 155Disallow: /trap/ 156Disallow: /wiki/Special: 157Disallow: /wiki/Spezial: 158Disallow: /wiki/Spesial: 159Disallow: /wiki/Special%3A 160Disallow: /wiki/Spezial%3A 161Disallow: /wiki/Spesial%3A 162# 163# ar: 164Disallow: /wiki/%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%B5:Search 165Disallow: /wiki/%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%B5%3ASearch 166# 167# dewiki: 168# T6937 169# sensible deletion and meta user discussion pages: 170Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia:L%C3%B6schkandidaten/ 171Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia:Löschkandidaten/ 172Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia:Vandalensperrung/ 173Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia:Benutzersperrung/ 174Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia:Vermittlungsausschuss/ 175Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia:Administratoren/Probleme/ 176Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia:Adminkandidaturen/ 177Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia:Qualitätssicherung/ 178Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia:Qualit%C3%A4tssicherung/ 179# 4937#5 180Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia:Vandalismusmeldung/ 181Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia:Gesperrte_Lemmata/ 182Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia:Löschprüfung/ 183Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia:L%C3%B6schprüfung/ 184Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia:Administratoren/Notizen/ 185Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia:Schiedsgericht/Anfragen/ 186Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia:L%C3%B6schpr%C3%BCfung/ 187# T14111 188Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia:Checkuser/ 189Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia_Diskussion:Checkuser/ 190Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia_Diskussion:Adminkandidaturen/ 191# T15961 192Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia:Spam-Blacklist-Log 193Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia%3ASpam-Blacklist-Log 194Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia_Diskussion:Spam-Blacklist-Log 195Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia_Diskussion%3ASpam-Blacklist-Log 196# 197# enwiki: 198# Folks get annoyed when VfD discussions end up the number 1 google hit for 199# their name. See T6776 200Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/ 201Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia%3AArticles_for_deletion/ 202Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/ 203Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia%3AVotes_for_deletion/ 204Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia:Pages_for_deletion/ 205Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia%3APages_for_deletion/ 206Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia:Miscellany_for_deletion/ 207Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia%3AMiscellany_for_deletion/ 208Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia:Miscellaneous_deletion/ 209Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia%3AMiscellaneous_deletion/ 210Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia:Copyright_problems 211Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia%3ACopyright_problems 212Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia:Protected_titles/ 213Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia%3AProtected_titles/ 214# T15398 215Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Spam/ 216Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia%3AWikiProject_Spam/ 217# T16075 218Disallow: /wiki/MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist 219Disallow: /wiki/MediaWiki%3ASpam-blacklist 220Disallow: /wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Spam-blacklist 221Disallow: /wiki/MediaWiki_talk%3ASpam-blacklist 222# T13261 223Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/ 224Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia%3ARequests_for_arbitration/ 225Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/ 226Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia%3ARequests_for_comment/ 227Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/ 228Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia%3ARequests_for_adminship/ 229# T12288 230Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_deletion/ 231Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia_talk%3AArticles_for_deletion/ 232Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Votes_for_deletion/ 233Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia_talk%3AVotes_for_deletion/ 234Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Pages_for_deletion/ 235Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia_talk%3APages_for_deletion/ 236Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Miscellany_for_deletion/ 237Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia_talk%3AMiscellany_for_deletion/ 238Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Miscellaneous_deletion/ 239Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia_talk%3AMiscellaneous_deletion/ 240# T16793 241Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia:Changing_username 242Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia%3AChanging_username 243Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia:Changing_username/ 244Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia%3AChanging_username/ 245Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Changing_username 246Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia_talk%3AChanging_username 247Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Changing_username/ 248Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia_talk%3AChanging_username/ 249# 250# eswiki: 251# T8746 252Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia:Consultas_de_borrado/ 253Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia%3AConsultas_de_borrado/ 254# 255# fiwiki: 256# T10695 257Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia:Poistettavat_sivut 258Disallow: /wiki/K%C3%A4ytt%C3%A4j%C3%A4: 259Disallow: /wiki/Käyttäjä: 260Disallow: /wiki/Keskustelu_k%C3%A4ytt%C3%A4j%C3%A4st%C3%A4: 261Disallow: /wiki/Keskustelu_käyttäjästä: 262Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia:Yll%C3%A4pit%C3%A4j%C3%A4t/ 263Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia:Ylläpitäjät/ 264# 265# hewiki: 266Disallow: /wiki/%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%95%D7%97%D7%93:Search 267Disallow: /wiki/%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%95%D7%97%D7%93%3ASearch 268#T11517 269Disallow: /wiki/ויקיפדיה:רשימת_מועמדים_למחיקה/ 270Disallow: /wiki/ויקיפדיה%3Aרשימת_מועמדים_למחיקה/ 271Disallow: /wiki/%D7%95%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%93%D7%99%D7%94:%D7%A8%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%AA_%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%A2%D7%9E%D7%93%D7%99%D7%9D_%D7%9C%D7%9E%D7%97%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%94/ 272Disallow: /wiki/%D7%95%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%93%D7%99%D7%94%3A%D7%A8%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%AA_%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%A2%D7%9E%D7%93%D7%99%D7%9D_%D7%9C%D7%9E%D7%97%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%94/ 273Disallow: /wiki/ויקיפדיה:ערכים_לא_קיימים_ומוגנים 274Disallow: /wiki/ויקיפדיה%3Aערכים_לא_קיימים_ומוגנים 275Disallow: /wiki/%D7%95%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%93%D7%99%D7%94:%D7%A2%D7%A8%D7%9B%D7%99%D7%9D_%D7%9C%D7%90_%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%9D_%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%92%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%9D 276Disallow: /wiki/%D7%95%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%93%D7%99%D7%94%3A%D7%A2%D7%A8%D7%9B%D7%99%D7%9D_%D7%9C%D7%90_%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%9D_%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%92%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%9D 277Disallow: /wiki/ויקיפדיה:דפים_לא_קיימים_ומוגנים 278Disallow: /wiki/ויקיפדיה%3Aדפים_לא_קיימים_ומוגנים 279Disallow: /wiki/%D7%95%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%93%D7%99%D7%94:%D7%93%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%9D_%D7%9C%D7%90_%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%9D_%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%92%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%9D 280Disallow: /wiki/%D7%95%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%93%D7%99%D7%94%3A%D7%93%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%9D_%D7%9C%D7%90_%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%9D_%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%92%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%9D 281# 282# huwiki: 283Disallow: /wiki/Speci%C3%A1lis:Search 284Disallow: /wiki/Speci%C3%A1lis%3ASearch 285# 286# itwiki: 287# T7545 288Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia:Pagine_da_cancellare 289Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia%3APagine_da_cancellare 290Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia:Utenti_problematici 291Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia%3AUtenti_problematici 292Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia:Vandalismi_in_corso 293Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia%3AVandalismi_in_corso 294Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia:Amministratori 295Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia%3AAmministratori 296Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia:Proposte_di_cancellazione_semplificata 297Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia%3AProposte_di_cancellazione_semplificata 298Disallow: /wiki/Categoria:Da_cancellare_subito 299Disallow: /wiki/Categoria%3ADa_cancellare_subito 300Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia:Sospette_violazioni_di_copyright 301Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia%3ASospette_violazioni_di_copyright 302Disallow: /wiki/Categoria:Da_controllare_per_copyright 303Disallow: /wiki/Categoria%3ADa_controllare_per_copyright 304Disallow: /wiki/Progetto:Rimozione_contributi_sospetti 305Disallow: /wiki/Progetto%3ARimozione_contributi_sospetti 306Disallow: /wiki/Categoria:Da_cancellare_subito_per_violazione_integrale_copyright 307Disallow: /wiki/Categoria%3ADa_cancellare_subito_per_violazione_integrale_copyright 308Disallow: /wiki/Progetto:Cococo 309Disallow: /wiki/Progetto%3ACococo 310Disallow: /wiki/Discussioni_progetto:Cococo 311Disallow: /wiki/Discussioni_progetto%3ACococo 312# 313# jawiki 314Disallow: /wiki/%E7%89%B9%E5%88%A5:Search 315Disallow: /wiki/%E7%89%B9%E5%88%A5%3ASearch 316# T7239 317Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia:%E5%89%8A%E9%99%A4%E4%BE%9D%E9%A0%BC/ 318Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia%3A%E5%89%8A%E9%99%A4%E4%BE%9D%E9%A0%BC/ 319Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia:%E5%88%A9%E7%94%A8%E8%80%85%E3%83%9A%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8%E3%81%AE%E5%89%8A%E9%99%A4%E4%BE%9D%E9%A0%BC 320Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia%3A%E5%88%A9%E7%94%A8%E8%80%85%E3%83%9A%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8%E3%81%AE%E5%89%8A%E9%99%A4%E4%BE%9D%E9%A0%BC 321# nowiki 322# T13432 323Disallow: /wiki/Bruker: 324Disallow: /wiki/Bruker%3A 325Disallow: /wiki/Brukerdiskusjon 326Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia:Administratorer 327Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia%3AAdministratorer 328Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia-diskusjon:Administratorer 329Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia-diskusjon%3AAdministratorer 330Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia:Sletting 331Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia%3ASletting 332Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia-diskusjon:Sletting 333Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia-diskusjon%3ASletting 334# 335# plwiki 336# T10067 337Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia:Strony_do_usuni%C4%99cia 338Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia%3AStrony_do_usuni%C4%99cia 339Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia:Do_usuni%C4%99cia 340Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia%3ADo_usuni%C4%99cia 341Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia:SDU/ 342Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia%3ASDU/ 343Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia:Strony_podejrzane_o_naruszenie_praw_autorskich 344Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia%3AStrony_podejrzane_o_naruszenie_praw_autorskich 345# 346# ptwiki: 347# T7394 348Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia:Páginas_para_eliminar/ 349Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia:P%C3%A1ginas_para_eliminar/ 350Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia%3AP%C3%A1ginas_para_eliminar/ 351Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia_Discussão:Páginas_para_eliminar/ 352Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia_Discuss%C3%A3o:P%C3%A1ginas_para_eliminar/ 353Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia_Discuss%C3%A3o%3AP%C3%A1ginas_para_eliminar/ 354# 355# rowiki: 356# T14546 357Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia:Pagini_de_%C5%9Fters 358Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia%3APagini_de_%C5%9Fters 359Disallow: /wiki/Discu%C5%A3ie_Wikipedia:Pagini_de_%C5%9Fters 360Disallow: /wiki/Discu%C5%A3ie_Wikipedia%3APagini_de_%C5%9Fters 361# 362# ruwiki: 363Disallow: /wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B5:Search 364Disallow: /wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B5%3ASearch 365# 366# svwiki: 367# T12229 368Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia%3ASidor_f%C3%B6reslagna_f%C3%B6r_radering 369Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia:Sidor_f%C3%B6reslagna_f%C3%B6r_radering 370Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia:Sidor_föreslagna_för_radering 371Disallow: /wiki/Användare 372Disallow: /wiki/Anv%C3%A4ndare 373Disallow: /wiki/Användardiskussion 374Disallow: /wiki/Anv%C3%A4ndardiskussion 375Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia:Skyddade_sidnamn 376Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia%3ASkyddade_sidnamn 377# T13291 378Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia:Sidor_som_bör_raderas 379Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia:Sidor_som_b%C3%B6r_raderas 380Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia%3ASidor_som_b%C3%B6r_raderas 381# 382# zhwiki: 383# T7104 384Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia:删除投票/侵权 385Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia:%E5%88%A0%E9%99%A4%E6%8A%95%E7%A5%A8/%E4%BE%B5%E6%9D%83 386Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia:删除投票和请求 387Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia:%E5%88%A0%E9%99%A4%E6%8A%95%E7%A5%A8%E5%92%8C%E8%AF%B7%E6%B1%82 388Disallow: /wiki/Category:快速删除候选 389Disallow: /wiki/Category:%E5%BF%AB%E9%80%9F%E5%88%A0%E9%99%A4%E5%80%99%E9%80%89 390Disallow: /wiki/Category:维基百科需要翻译的文章 391Disallow: /wiki/Category:%E7%BB%B4%E5%9F%BA%E7%99%BE%E7%A7%91%E9%9C%80%E8%A6%81%E7%BF%BB%E8%AF%91%E7%9A%84%E6%96%87%E7%AB%A0 392# 393# sister projects 394# 395# enwikinews: 396# T7340 397Disallow: /wiki/Portal:Prepared_stories/ 398Disallow: /wiki/Portal%3APrepared_stories/ 399# 400# itwikinews