# robots.txt for www.rainviewer.com
# Explicit AI-bot policies on top of classic SEO directives.
# Default stance: allow everything for AI/LLM crawlers (we want citations).

# ─── Classic search engines (Googlebot, Bingbot, Yandex, …) ───────────────
User-agent: *
Disallow: /*?q=*
Disallow: /*?route=*
Disallow: /*?loc=*
Disallow: /*?oFa=*
Disallow: /*?oC=*
Disallow: /*?oCS=*
Disallow: /*&loc=*
Disallow: /test/*
Allow: /images/*.png
Allow: /images/*.jpeg
Allow: /images/*.gif
Allow: /css/*.css
Allow: /js/*.js

# ─── AI / LLM crawlers — explicit allow ────────────────────────────────────
# Roles vary across vendors:
#   training            CCBot, Bytespider, Meta-ExternalAgent, Google-Extended,
#                       Applebot-Extended
#   search-index        OAI-SearchBot, Claude-SearchBot, PerplexityBot
#   user-initiated      ChatGPT-User, Claude-User, Perplexity-User
#   generic crawl       GPTBot, ClaudeBot
# We do NOT disallow training: we want our content cited and used.

# OpenAI
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

# Anthropic
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Allow: /

# Perplexity
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /

# Google AI (separate from Googlebot — Gemini training opt-in)
User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

# Apple AI (Apple Intelligence training opt-in)
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

# Common Crawl + other AI-relevant crawlers
User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Allow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Allow: /

# ─── Yandex hint ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
clean-param: loc
clean-param: route

# ─── Content Signals (contentsignals.org / draft-romm-aipref-contentsignals) ─
# Declares our preferences for how AI systems may use this content. We allow
# everything — we want to be found, cited, and learned from.
Content-Signal: ai-train=yes, search=yes, ai-input=yes

Sitemap: https://www.rainviewer.com/sitemap.xml