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fix(seo): correct xAI UA strings, drop Bravebot, block /playground/ a…
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fix(seo): drop unverified Grok UAs, correct DeepSeekBot and Imagesift…
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fix(seo): re-add Bravebot to allow-list per Brave Search docs
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improvement(seo): drop redundant named AI/search bot allow-list
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chore(seo): trim verbose comments in robots.ts
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62 changes: 46 additions & 16 deletions apps/sim/app/robots.ts
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import type { MetadataRoute } from 'next'
import { getBaseUrl } from '@/lib/core/utils/urls'

const DISALLOWED_PATHS = [
'/api/',
'/workspace/',
'/chat/',
'/playground/',
'/resume/',
'/invite/',
'/unsubscribe/',
'/w/',
'/form/',
'/credential-account/',
'/_next/',
'/private/',
'/blog*tag=',
]

/** Looser disallow than the wildcard so OG previews can fetch /chat/ and /form/. */
const LINK_PREVIEW_DISALLOWED_PATHS = [
'/api/',
'/workspace/',
'/w/',
'/playground/',
'/resume/',
'/invite/',
'/unsubscribe/',
'/credential-account/',
'/_next/',
'/private/',
]
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const LINK_PREVIEW_BOTS = [
'Twitterbot',
'LinkedInBot',
'Slackbot',
'Slack-ImgProxy',
'Discordbot',
'TelegramBot',
'WhatsApp',
'facebookexternalhit',
'Pinterestbot',
'redditbot',
]

export default function robots(): MetadataRoute.Robots {
const baseUrl = getBaseUrl()

return {
rules: [
{ userAgent: '*', allow: '/', disallow: DISALLOWED_PATHS },
{
userAgent: '*',
userAgent: LINK_PREVIEW_BOTS,
allow: '/',
disallow: [
'/api/',
'/workspace/',
'/chat/',
'/playground/',
'/resume/',
'/invite/',
'/unsubscribe/',
'/w/',
'/form/',
'/credential-account/',
'/_next/',
'/private/',
'/blog*tag=',
],
disallow: LINK_PREVIEW_DISALLOWED_PATHS,
},
],
sitemap: [`${baseUrl}/sitemap.xml`, `${baseUrl}/blog/sitemap-images.xml`],
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