# Friends With Epilepsy - robots.txt
# https://friendswithepilepsy.com/

User-agent: *
Allow: /

# Private / authenticated areas
Disallow: /users/
Disallow: /messages/
Disallow: /myFriends/
Disallow: /conversations/
Disallow: /resetPassword/
Disallow: /onboarding
Disallow: /login
Disallow: /login/
Disallow: /register

# Prevent indexing of query-based states
Disallow: /*?redirect=
Disallow: /*?prompt=

# API endpoints (never useful to index)
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /api/conversations/
Disallow: /api/discussions/deleteCommentById
Disallow: /api/discussions/deleteDiscussionById
Disallow: /api/discussions/postUpvote
Disallow: /api/discussions/saveDiscussion
Disallow: /api/discussions/findCommentsByDiscussionId
Disallow: /api/friendPostReplies/
Disallow: /api/friendPosts/
Disallow: /api/friends/
Disallow: /api/friendRequests/
Disallow: /api/messages/
Disallow: /api/misc/
Disallow: /api/patients/
Disallow: /api/upvotes/
Disallow: /api/users/
Disallow: /api/auth
Disallow: /api/verifyAuth

# Allow ads.txt for ad verification
Allow: /ads.txt
Allow: /sitemap.xml

# Explicit allow for key search engines
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /users/
Disallow: /messages/
Disallow: /myFriends/
Disallow: /conversations/
Disallow: /resetPassword/
Disallow: /onboarding
Disallow: /login
Disallow: /register

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /users/
Disallow: /messages/
Disallow: /myFriends/
Disallow: /conversations/
Disallow: /resetPassword/
Disallow: /onboarding
Disallow: /login
Disallow: /register

User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Slurp
Allow: /

# Block aggressive scrapers / AI training crawlers
User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Disallow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /

# Host canonical
Host: friendswithepilepsy.com

# Sitemap
Sitemap: https://friendswithepilepsy.com/sitemap.xml