# danielmiessler/RobotsDisallowed

A curated list of the most common and most interesting robots.txt disallowed directories.

Repository: https://github.com/danielmiessler/RobotsDisallowed
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/robotsdisallowed
Language: Shell
License Family: other
Last push: 2022-08-22T05:13:26+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3999, "days_push": 1472, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1490, forks 302 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:52.379914+00:00)

## What it is
A curated dataset of robots.txt disallowed directories harvested from the top 100K websites (Alexa/Majestic), useful for content discovery during web security assessments and bug bounties. It includes a focused curated.txt list of high-value entries like admin, login, and backup directories.

## Use cases
- find hidden directories on a website during a pentest
- wordlist for directory brute-forcing in bug bounty recon
- discover sensitive paths like admin panels and backups
- supplement content discovery tooling like gobuster or ffuf
- research common disallowed paths across top websites

## When to choose
- you need a ready-made wordlist of interesting robots.txt paths for web assessments
- you want a small curated list of high-value targets instead of a huge generic wordlist

## When to avoid
- you need an up-to-date dataset - the list was last refreshed in 2019
- you need a tool that fetches and parses robots.txt live rather than a static list

## Facets
- artifact type: dataset
- maturity: maintenance
- function: web-scraping, security, osint, penetration-testing
- domain: security, penetration-testing, crawlers, osint
- platform: cli, cross-platform
- tags: robots-txt, wordlist, bug-bounty, content-discovery, directory-enumeration, curated-list

## Member repositories
- danielmiessler/RobotsDisallowed (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:52.379914+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 2026-08-30T04:33:36.580737+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/danielmiessler/RobotsDisallowed (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:52.379914+00:00, sha ab51e81285a3)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.