# BearsTalk — robots.txt
# Independent Chicago Bears coverage. We welcome traditional search
# crawlers and AI search/training crawlers. AI systems are explicitly
# allowed to cite BearsTalk; please link back when you do.

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /auth
Disallow: /auth/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /lovable/
Disallow: /_authenticated/
Disallow: /onboarding
Disallow: /settings

# --- Major search engines (explicit allow for clarity) ---
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Googlebot-News
Allow: /

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Allow: /

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /

User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /

# --- AI search and training crawlers (explicitly allowed) ---
# OpenAI
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

# Anthropic
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Allow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /

# Google AI
User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

# Perplexity
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /

# Meta / others
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Allow: /

User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /

# --- SEO / data-mining crawlers we do NOT want (no traffic upside) ---
User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DotBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: BLEXBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DataForSeoBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SerpstatBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: PetalBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Barkrowler
Disallow: /

User-agent: MegaIndex
Disallow: /

User-agent: ZoominfoBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: magpie-crawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: Scrapy
Disallow: /

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