###
# postcrossing.com robots.txt file
#
# NOTE: Entries in robots.txt don't inherit from '*'. Or not all bots know how to anyway, hence the repetition
###

User-Agent: *
# only the right user can open it, so stop doing 403's
Disallow: /travelingpostcard/
Disallow: /user/*/traveling
Disallow: /user/*/gallery/popular
Disallow: /user/*/map
Disallow: /pm/send/
Disallow: /user/*/data/sent
Disallow: /user/*/data/received
Disallow: /user/*/data/traveling

# needless load
Disallow: /postcards/
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 1


#
# Same as above, but we allow social media preview/shares to access /postcards/
#
User-agent: atproto-fetch
User-agent: Discordbot
User-agent: facebookexternalhit
User-agent: Facebot
User-agent: LinkedInBot
User-agent: OdklBot
User-agent: redditbot
User-agent: Slack-ImgProxy
User-agent: Slackbot
User-agent: Slackbot-LinkExpanding
User-agent: Snap URL Preview Service
User-agent: TelegramBot
User-agent: Twitterbot
User-agent: vkShare
User-agent: WeiboShare
User-agent: Yahoo Link Preview
# only the right user can open it, so stop doing 403's
Disallow: /travelingpostcard/
Disallow: /user/*/traveling
Disallow: /user/*/gallery/popular
Disallow: /user/*/map
Disallow: /pm/send/
Disallow: /user/*/data/sent
Disallow: /user/*/data/received
Disallow: /user/*/data/traveling



#
# Don't need the extra load
#
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
# only the right user can open it, so stop doing 403's
Disallow: /travelingpostcard/
Disallow: /user/*/traveling
Disallow: /user/*/gallery/popular
Disallow: /user/*/map
Disallow: /pm/send/
Disallow: /user/*/data/sent
Disallow: /user/*/data/received
Disallow: /user/*/data/traveling
# extra
Disallow: /postcards/
Disallow: /user/*/gallery
Disallow: /gallery
Disallow: /country/
Allow: /


User-agent: AwarioRssBot
User-agent: AwarioSmartBot
Disallow: /postcards/

#
# AdSense crawler
#
User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
Allow: /


#
# Wayback machine: don't overdue it
#
User-agent: archive.org_bot
Disallow: /user/
Disallow: /postcards/
Disallow: /gallery
Allow: /


#
# If you don't know how to behave, you are not welcome
#
User-agent: Screaming Frog SEO Spider
Disallow: /


#
# Please respect our Terms of Service: spiders/scrappers are only allowed with explicit permission
#
User-agent: Scrapy
Disallow: /

User-agent: scrapybot
Disallow: /




###############
# below here is primarily from https://en.wikipedia.org/robots.txt
#

# Some bots are known to be trouble, particularly those designed to copy
# entire sites. Please obey robots.txt.
User-agent: sitecheck.internetseer.com
Disallow: /

User-agent: Zealbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: MSIECrawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: SiteSnagger
Disallow: /

User-agent: WebStripper
Disallow: /

User-agent: WebCopier
Disallow: /

User-agent: Fetch
Disallow: /

User-agent: Offline Explorer
Disallow: /

User-agent: Teleport
Disallow: /

User-agent: TeleportPro
Disallow: /

User-agent: WebZIP
Disallow: /

User-agent: linko
Disallow: /

User-agent: HTTrack
Disallow: /

User-agent: Microsoft.URL.Control
Disallow: /

User-agent: Xenu
Disallow: /

User-agent: larbin
Disallow: /

User-agent: libwww
Disallow: /

User-agent: ZyBORG
Disallow: /

User-agent: Download Ninja
Disallow: /

# Misbehaving, requests much too fast
User-agent: fast
Disallow: /

# Sorry, wget in its recursive mode is a frequent problem.
# Please read the man page and use it properly; there is a
# --wait option you can use to set the delay between hits,
# for instance.
User-agent: wget
Disallow: /

# The 'grub' distributed client has been *very* poorly behaved.
User-agent: grub-client
Disallow: /

# Doesn't follow robots.txt anyway, but...
User-agent: k2spider
Disallow: /

# Hits many times per second, not acceptable
# http://www.nameprotect.com/botinfo.html
User-agent: NPBot
Disallow: /

# A capture bot, downloads gazillions of pages with no public benefit
# http://www.webreaper.net/
User-agent: WebReaper
Disallow: /



###############
# AI bots create needless extra load, so limiting to just basics
# from https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt

User-agent: AddSearchBot
User-agent: AI2Bot
User-agent: AI2Bot-DeepResearchEval
User-agent: Ai2Bot-Dolma
User-agent: aiHitBot
User-agent: amazon-kendra
User-agent: Amazonbot
User-agent: AmazonBuyForMe
User-agent: Andibot
User-agent: Anomura
User-agent: anthropic-ai
User-agent: Applebot
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
User-agent: atlassian-bot
User-agent: Awario
User-agent: bedrockbot
User-agent: bigsur.ai
User-agent: Bravebot
User-agent: Brightbot 1.0
User-agent: BuddyBot
User-agent: Bytespider
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: Channel3Bot
User-agent: ChatGLM-Spider
User-agent: ChatGPT Agent
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
User-agent: Claude-User
User-agent: Claude-Web
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: Cloudflare-AutoRAG
User-agent: CloudVertexBot
User-agent: cohere-ai
User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler
User-agent: Cotoyogi
User-agent: Crawl4AI
User-agent: Crawlspace
User-agent: Datenbank Crawler
User-agent: DeepSeekBot
User-agent: Devin
User-agent: Diffbot
User-agent: DuckAssistBot
User-agent: Echobot Bot
User-agent: EchoboxBot
User-agent: FacebookBot
#User-agent: facebookexternalhit
User-agent: Factset_spyderbot
User-agent: FirecrawlAgent
User-agent: FriendlyCrawler
User-agent: Gemini-Deep-Research
User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot
User-agent: Google-Extended
User-agent: Google-Firebase
User-agent: Google-NotebookLM
User-agent: GoogleAgent-Mariner
User-agent: GoogleOther
User-agent: GoogleOther-Image
User-agent: GoogleOther-Video
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: iAskBot
User-agent: iaskspider
User-agent: iaskspider/2.0
User-agent: IbouBot
User-agent: ICC-Crawler
User-agent: ImagesiftBot
User-agent: imageSpider
User-agent: img2dataset
User-agent: ISSCyberRiskCrawler
User-agent: Kangaroo Bot
User-agent: KlaviyoAIBot
User-agent: KunatoCrawler
User-agent: laion-huggingface-processor
User-agent: LAIONDownloader
User-agent: LCC
User-agent: LinerBot
User-agent: Linguee Bot
User-agent: LinkupBot
User-agent: Manus-User
User-agent: meta-externalagent
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
User-agent: meta-externalfetcher
User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher
User-agent: meta-webindexer
User-agent: MistralAI-User
User-agent: MistralAI-User/1.0
User-agent: MyCentralAIScraperBot
User-agent: netEstate Imprint Crawler
User-agent: NotebookLM
User-agent: NovaAct
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-agent: omgili
User-agent: omgilibot
User-agent: OpenAI
User-agent: Operator
User-agent: PanguBot
User-agent: Panscient
User-agent: panscient.com
User-agent: Perplexity-User
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: PetalBot
User-agent: PhindBot
User-agent: Poggio-Citations
User-agent: Poseidon Research Crawler
User-agent: QualifiedBot
User-agent: QuillBot
User-agent: quillbot.com
User-agent: SBIntuitionsBot
#User-agent: Scrapy
User-agent: SemrushBot-OCOB
User-agent: SemrushBot-SWA
User-agent: ShapBot
User-agent: Sidetrade indexer bot
User-agent: Spider
User-agent: TavilyBot
User-agent: TerraCotta
User-agent: Thinkbot
User-agent: TikTokSpider
User-agent: Timpibot
User-agent: TwinAgent
User-agent: VelenPublicWebCrawler
User-agent: WARDBot
User-agent: Webzio-Extended
User-agent: webzio-extended
User-agent: wpbot
User-agent: WRTNBot
User-agent: YaK
User-agent: YandexAdditional
User-agent: YandexAdditionalBot
User-agent: YouBot
User-agent: ZanistaBot
# only the right user can open it, so stop doing 403's
Disallow: /travelingpostcard/
Disallow: /user/*/traveling
Disallow: /user/*/gallery/popular
Disallow: /user/*/map
Disallow: /pm/send/
Disallow: /user/*/data/sent
Disallow: /user/*/data/received
Disallow: /user/*/data/traveling
# needless load
Disallow: /postcards/
Disallow: /user/
Disallow: /gallery