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AI crawlers and robots.txt: a practical guide for developers

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A surprising number of sites block the exact AI crawlers they would like to be cited by, usually because someone copied a robots.txt snippet during the "block all AI" wave and never revisited it. Here is how to think about it as a developer, without breaking anything. Not all AI crawlers do the sam…

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  1. 2026-10-10 07:00 · DEV Community — AI
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