# robots.txt for thefuneral.ai
# FREE AI Funeral Assistant — funeral planning, obituary writing, grief support

User-agent: *
Allow: /

# Disallow admin panel + admin APIs
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /api/admin/
# Disallow Clerk auth callback paths so they don't get indexed
Disallow: /sign-in/
Disallow: /sign-up/

# Allow other API routes (chat is rate-limited; obituary needs auth)
Allow: /api/

# Sitemap
Sitemap: https://thefuneral.ai/sitemap.xml

# Crawl-delay for respectful crawling
Crawl-delay: 1

# ── AI / LLM crawlers — explicitly allow for GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) ──

User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /

User-agent: BingPreview
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Allow: /

User-agent: meta-externalfetcher
Allow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Allow: /

User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /

User-agent: YandexBot
Allow: /

# ── Standard search crawlers ──

User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Allow: /

# ── Social media link-preview scrapers (no crawl-delay so previews render fast) ──

User-agent: Twitterbot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 0

User-agent: facebookexternalhit
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 0

User-agent: facebookcatalog
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 0

User-agent: LinkedInBot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 0

User-agent: Slackbot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 0

User-agent: Slackbot-LinkExpanding
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 0

User-agent: Discordbot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 0

User-agent: WhatsApp
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 0

User-agent: TelegramBot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 0