gotosocial/internal/web/robots.go

// GoToSocial
// Copyright (C) GoToSocial Authors admin@gotosocial.org
// SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later
//
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package web

import (
	"net/http"

	"github.com/gin-gonic/gin"
)

const (
	robotsPath          = "/robots.txt"
	robotsMetaAllowSome = "nofollow, noarchive, nositelinkssearchbox, max-image-preview:standard" // https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/robots-meta-tag#robotsmeta
	robotsTxt           = `# GoToSocial robots.txt -- to edit, see internal/web/robots.go
# More info @ https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/robots/intro

# Before we commence, a giant fuck you to ChatGPT in particular.
# https://platform.openai.com/docs/gptbot
User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

# Rules for everything else.
User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 500

# API endpoints.
Disallow: /api/

# Auth/login endpoints.
Disallow: /auth/
Disallow: /oauth/
Disallow: /check_your_email
Disallow: /wait_for_approval
Disallow: /account_disabled

# Well-known endpoints.
Disallow: /.well-known/

# Fileserver/media.
Disallow: /fileserver/

# Fedi S2S API endpoints.
Disallow: /users/
Disallow: /emoji/

# Settings panels.
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /user
Disallow: /settings/

# Domain blocklist.
Disallow: /about/suspended`
)

// robotsGETHandler returns a decent robots.txt that prevents crawling
// the api, auth pages, settings pages, etc.
//
// More granular robots meta tags are then applied for web pages
// depending on user preferences (see internal/web).
func (m *Module) robotsGETHandler(c *gin.Context) {
	c.String(http.StatusOK, robotsTxt)
}