# robots.txt for sadfinder.com
# Default: allow all standard search crawlers, keep private/auth areas out.
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /account
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /login
Disallow: /signup
Disallow: /register
Disallow: /welcome
Disallow: /forgot-password
Disallow: /reset-password

# --- AI / answer-engine crawlers: explicitly welcome ---
# We WANT SADFinder cited in AI answers and indexed by AI search.
# Includes AI-training/content-licensing bots; allowed intentionally.

# OpenAI
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

# Anthropic
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Allow: /
User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /
User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /

# Perplexity
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /
User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /

# Google AI (Gemini / AI Overviews)
User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

# Apple Intelligence / Siri
User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

# Common Crawl (feeds many LLM datasets)
User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /

# Other answer engines
User-agent: Bytespider
Allow: /
User-agent: cohere-ai
Allow: /
User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Allow: /

Sitemap: https://sadfinder.com/sitemap-index.xml