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Robots.txt Generator

Generate clean, RFC 9309 compliant robots.txt files to manage search engine crawler and AI bot access across your website.

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Crawler Directives

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Sitemap & Host Directives

robots.txt Preview
# robots.txt generated by BosonWare Tools (https://bosonware.com/tools/robots-generator)
# Generated at 2026-09-11T05:57:40.462Z

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /private/

Sitemap: https://bosonware.com/sitemap.xml

Where to place robots.txt:

Save this file as robots.txt in the root directory of your website (e.g. https://bosonware.com/robots.txt). It must be served with a text/plain Content-Type.

Control Web Crawler Access Effectively

A well-structured robots.txt file optimizes crawler efficiency by keeping search engines focused on your public, high-value pages while preventing indexation of administrative dashboards, private search results, and staging environments.

Key Directives Explained

  • User-agent: Targets specific search crawlers (e.g. Googlebot, Bingbot, GPTBot) or all bots with *.
  • Disallow: Specifies URL path prefixes that crawlers must not request.
  • Allow: Carves out exceptions within disallowed parent directories (e.g., allow /public/assets/ within /public/).
  • Crawl-delay: Requests bots (like Bingbot and Yandex) to throttle their request rate in seconds.
  • Sitemap: Points crawlers directly to your XML sitemap for efficient URL discovery.

Help & FAQs

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions and technical guidance about this tool.

A robots.txt file provides instructions to automated web crawlers (like Googlebot, Bingbot, and AI bots) regarding which pages or sections of a website they are permitted or forbidden to request.

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