Website Security & Threat Management
Robotcop: enforcing your robots.txt policies and stopping bots before they reach your website

Robotcop: enforcing your robots.txt policies and stopping bots before they reach your website

12/10/2024 · Celso Martinho, Will Allen, Nelson Duarte

What this post added

This post introduces 'Robotcop,' an extension of AI Crawl Control, which allows customers to programmatically enforce their robots.txt policies against AI bots. It provides visibility into which AI services are honoring robots.txt and enables the automatic translation of these policies into WAF rules for network-level enforcement, moving from voluntary compliance to mandatory adherence.

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