name: robots-txt-gen description: Generate, validate, and analyze robots.txt files for websites. Use when creating robots.txt from scratch, validating existing robots.txt syntax, checking if a URL is allowed/blocked by robots.txt rules, or generating robots.txt for common platforms (WordPress, Next.js, Django, Rails). Also use when auditing crawl directives or debugging search engine indexing issues.

robots-txt-gen

Generate, validate, and test robots.txt files from the command line.

Quick Start

# Generate a robots.txt for a platform
python3 scripts/robots_txt_gen.py generate --preset nextjs --sitemap https://example.com/sitemap.xml

# Validate an existing robots.txt
python3 scripts/robots_txt_gen.py validate --file robots.txt

# Validate a remote robots.txt
python3 scripts/robots_txt_gen.py validate --url https://example.com/robots.txt

# Test if a URL is allowed for a user-agent
python3 scripts/robots_txt_gen.py test --file robots.txt --url /admin/dashboard --agent Googlebot

# Generate with custom rules
python3 scripts/robots_txt_gen.py generate --allow "/" --disallow "/admin" --disallow "/api" --disallow "/private" --sitemap https://example.com/sitemap.xml --agent "*"

Commands

generate

Create a robots.txt file with custom rules or platform presets.

Options:

• --preset <name> — Use a platform preset: wordpress, nextjs, django, rails, laravel, static, spa, ecommerce
• --agent <name> — User-agent (default: *). Repeat for multiple agents.
• --allow <path> — Allow path. Repeatable.
• --disallow <path> — Disallow path. Repeatable.
• --sitemap <url> — Sitemap URL. Repeatable.
• --crawl-delay <seconds> — Crawl delay directive.
• --block-ai — Add rules to block common AI crawlers (GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, CCBot, Google-Extended, anthropic-ai, etc.)
• --output <file> — Write to file instead of stdout.

validate

Check a robots.txt file for syntax errors and best-practice warnings.

Options:

• --file <path> — Local file to validate.
• --url <url> — Remote robots.txt URL to fetch and validate.

test

Test whether a specific URL path is allowed or disallowed for a given user-agent.

Options:

• --file <path> — robots.txt file to test against.
• --url <path> — URL path to test (e.g., /admin/login).
• --agent <name> — User-agent to test as (default: Googlebot).

Platform Presets

AI Crawler Blocking

The --block-ai flag adds disallow rules for known AI training crawlers:

• GPTBot, ChatGPT-User (OpenAI)
• Google-Extended (Google AI)
• CCBot (Common Crawl)
• anthropic-ai (Anthropic)
• Bytespider (ByteDance)
• ClaudeBot (Anthropic)
• FacebookBot (Meta)