diff --git a/bookwyrm/templates/robots.txt b/bookwyrm/templates/robots.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..dc7b6bcbb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bookwyrm/templates/robots.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+# See http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html for documentation on how to use the robots.txt file
+
+User-agent: *
+Disallow: /static/js/
+Disallow: /static/css/
diff --git a/bookwyrm/urls.py b/bookwyrm/urls.py
index a2250c486..f5c13a4b4 100644
--- a/bookwyrm/urls.py
+++ b/bookwyrm/urls.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 from django.conf.urls.static import static
 from django.contrib import admin
 from django.urls import path, re_path
-
+from django.views.generic.base import TemplateView
 
 from bookwyrm import settings, views
 from bookwyrm.utils import regex
@@ -27,6 +27,10 @@ handler404 = "bookwyrm.views.not_found_page"
 handler500 = "bookwyrm.views.server_error_page"
 urlpatterns = [
     path("admin/", admin.site.urls),
+    path(
+        "robots.txt",
+        TemplateView.as_view(template_name="robots.txt", content_type="text/plain"),
+    ),
     # federation endpoints
     re_path(r"^inbox/?$", views.Inbox.as_view()),
     re_path(r"%s/inbox/?$" % local_user_path, views.Inbox.as_view()),