# CheckTown — robots.txt
# https://check.town

# ── All bots: allow site, block query parameter URLs ──
# ?q= URLs are validator pre-fill links (shared results) — not indexable content.
# Clean canonical URLs are indexed; parametered variants waste crawl budget.

# ── Search engines ──
User-agent: Googlebot
User-agent: Bingbot
User-agent: Yandex
User-agent: Slurp
User-agent: MojeekBot
User-agent: YepBot
User-agent: PetalBot
User-agent: DuckBot

# ── AI search & chat ──
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: Perplexity-User
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
User-agent: anthropic-ai
User-agent: Google-Extended
User-agent: Gemini-Deep-Research
User-agent: Applebot
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
User-agent: DuckAssistBot
User-agent: Amazonbot
User-agent: cohere-ai
User-agent: DeepSeekBot
User-agent: Bytespider
User-agent: CCBot

# ── Catch-all ──
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /*?q=
Disallow: /*&q=

# ── Sitemaps (split by locale) ──
Sitemap: https://check.town/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://check.town/sitemap-en.xml
Sitemap: https://check.town/sitemap-fr.xml
Sitemap: https://check.town/sitemap-nl.xml
Sitemap: https://check.town/sitemap-uk.xml
Sitemap: https://check.town/sitemap-es.xml
Sitemap: https://check.town/sitemap-it.xml
Sitemap: https://check.town/sitemap-pl.xml
Sitemap: https://check.town/sitemap-pt.xml
Sitemap: https://check.town/sitemap-ru.xml