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authorBryan Newbold <bnewbold@archive.org>2022-10-31 10:51:44 -0700
committerBryan Newbold <bnewbold@archive.org>2022-10-31 10:51:44 -0700
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parent9da8c9bdb9149f3701f8774c1a220de889e7cc59 (diff)
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robots: more blocks to reduce load on search cluster
-rw-r--r--fatcat_scholar/static/robots.allow.txt10
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fatcat_scholar/static/robots.allow.txt b/fatcat_scholar/static/robots.allow.txt
index 6076e75..9f98785 100644
--- a/fatcat_scholar/static/robots.allow.txt
+++ b/fatcat_scholar/static/robots.allow.txt
@@ -9,13 +9,19 @@ User-agent: bingbot
User-agent: Googlebot
User-agent: SemanticScholarBot
User-agent: yacybot
+User-agent: PetalBot
+User-agent: Yeti
+User-agent: Riddler
Disallow: /search
# crawling search result pages is expensive, so we do specify a long crawl
# delay for those (for bots other than the above broad search bots)
+# UPDATE: actually, just block all robots from search page, we are overwhelmed
+# as of 2022-10-31
User-agent: *
-Allow: /search
-Crawl-delay: 5
+Disallow: /search
+#Allow: /search
+#Crawl-delay: 5
# by default, can crawl anything on this domain. HTTP 429 ("backoff") status
# codes are used for rate-limiting instead of any crawl delay specified here.