# ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt

A list of AI agents and robots to block.

Repository: https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/airobotstxt
Homepage: https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt/releases.atom
Language: Python
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: ai, crawlers, crawling, privacy
Last push: 2026-08-26T22:55:38+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 92/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 99, longevity 63
- inputs: {"age_days": 889, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 7, "gap_med": 13, "n_releases_24m": 36}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4082, forks 178 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:34.412290+00:00)

## What it is
A community-maintained list of AI crawler user agents, distributed as robots.txt plus ready-made blocking configs for Apache, Nginx, Caddy, HAProxy, and lighttpd. It lets website owners block AI training and scraping bots from their sites.

## Use cases
- block AI crawlers from my website
- generate a robots.txt that disallows AI bots
- block GPTBot and ClaudeBot in nginx
- stop AI companies from scraping my content for training
- configure HAProxy to deny AI user agents
- find a list of AI scraper user agents

## When to choose
- you self-host a website and want to block AI crawlers at the server or robots.txt level
- you want a regularly updated, community-maintained list of AI bot user agents
- you need drop-in config snippets for common web servers

## When to avoid
- you need to block bots that ignore robots.txt and spoof user agents - use behavioral detection or a WAF instead
- you run a CDN or managed platform where you cannot edit server configs
- you want to allow some AI crawlers but block others with fine-grained policy

## Facets
- artifact type: dataset
- maturity: active
- function: security, web-scraping, configuration-management
- domain: privacy, web-development, crawlers, self-hosted
- platform: self-hosted, cli
- tags: robots-txt, ai-crawlers, bot-blocking, nginx, apache, caddy, haproxy, lighttpd, user-agent-filtering, web-server

## Member repositories
- ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt (main) score 92

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:34.412290+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:23:25.032433+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:34.412290+00:00, sha 8a841826b8f8)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.