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update post with apple ai bot name, formatting fixes

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@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
---
title: "Blocking AI Crawlers"
date: 2024-04-12
lastmod: "2024-04-14T02:21:57Z"
lastmod: "2024-06-13T20:51:54Z"
description: "Using Hugo to politely ask AI bots to not steal my content - and then configuring Cloudflare's WAF to actively block them, just to be sure."
featured: false
toc: true
@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ robots = [
"AdsBot-Google",
"Amazonbot",
"anthropic-ai",
"Applebot",
"Applebot-Extended",
"AwarioRssBot",
"AwarioSmartBot",
"Bytespider",
@ -47,9 +47,6 @@ robots = [
"PerplexityBot",
"YouBot"
]
[author]
name = "John Bowdre"
```
I then created a new template in `layouts/robots.txt`:
@ -57,9 +54,14 @@ I then created a new template in `layouts/robots.txt`:
```text
Sitemap: {{ .Site.BaseURL }}/sitemap.xml
# hello robots [^_^]
# let's be friends <3
User-agent: *
Disallow:
{{ range .Site.Params.robots }}
# except for these bots which are not friends:
{{ range .Site.Params.bad_robots }}
User-agent: {{ . }}
{{- end }}
Disallow: /
@ -74,15 +76,20 @@ enableRobotsTXT = true
Now Hugo will generate the following `robots.txt` file for me:
```text
Sitemap: https://runtimeterror.dev//sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://runtimeterror.dev/sitemap.xml
# hello robots [^_^]
# let's be friends <3
User-agent: *
Disallow:
# except for these bots which are not friends:
User-agent: AdsBot-Google
User-agent: Amazonbot
User-agent: anthropic-ai
User-agent: Applebot
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
User-agent: AwarioRssBot
User-agent: AwarioSmartBot
User-agent: Bytespider
@ -129,7 +136,7 @@ So I added a [WAF Custom Rule](https://developers.cloudflare.com/waf/custom-rule
Here's the expression I'm using:
```text
(http.user_agent contains "AdsBot-Google") or (http.user_agent contains "Amazonbot") or (http.user_agent contains "anthropic-ai") or (http.user_agent contains "Applebot") or (http.user_agent contains "AwarioRssBot") or (http.user_agent contains "AwarioSmartBot") or (http.user_agent contains "Bytespider") or (http.user_agent contains "CCBot") or (http.user_agent contains "ChatGPT-User") or (http.user_agent contains "ClaudeBot") or (http.user_agent contains "Claude-Web") or (http.user_agent contains "cohere-ai") or (http.user_agent contains "DataForSeoBot") or (http.user_agent contains "FacebookBot") or (http.user_agent contains "Google-Extended") or (http.user_agent contains "GoogleOther") or (http.user_agent contains "GPTBot") or (http.user_agent contains "ImagesiftBot") or (http.user_agent contains "magpie-crawler") or (http.user_agent contains "Meltwater") or (http.user_agent contains "omgili") or (http.user_agent contains "omgilibot") or (http.user_agent contains "peer39_crawler") or (http.user_agent contains "peer39_crawler/1.0") or (http.user_agent contains "PerplexityBot") or (http.user_agent contains "Seekr") or (http.user_agent contains "YouBot")
(http.user_agent contains "AdsBot-Google") or (http.user_agent contains "Amazonbot") or (http.user_agent contains "anthropic-ai") or (http.user_agent contains "Applebot-Extended") or (http.user_agent contains "AwarioRssBot") or (http.user_agent contains "AwarioSmartBot") or (http.user_agent contains "Bytespider") or (http.user_agent contains "CCBot") or (http.user_agent contains "ChatGPT-User") or (http.user_agent contains "ClaudeBot") or (http.user_agent contains "Claude-Web") or (http.user_agent contains "cohere-ai") or (http.user_agent contains "DataForSeoBot") or (http.user_agent contains "FacebookBot") or (http.user_agent contains "Google-Extended") or (http.user_agent contains "GoogleOther") or (http.user_agent contains "GPTBot") or (http.user_agent contains "ImagesiftBot") or (http.user_agent contains "magpie-crawler") or (http.user_agent contains "Meltwater") or (http.user_agent contains "omgili") or (http.user_agent contains "omgilibot") or (http.user_agent contains "peer39_crawler") or (http.user_agent contains "peer39_crawler/1.0") or (http.user_agent contains "PerplexityBot") or (http.user_agent contains "Seekr") or (http.user_agent contains "YouBot")
```
![Creating a custom WAF rule in Cloudflare's web UI](cloudflare-waf-rule.png)