# robots.txt for SportsSync — https://sportssync.asia
# Last updated: 2026-06

# ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
# Search engines — allowed (public pages only)
# ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
User-agent: Googlebot
Crawl-delay: 2
Allow: /
Disallow: /player/dashboard
Disallow: /player/edit_profile
Disallow: /player/payment
Disallow: /organizer/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /auth/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /stream/api/
Disallow: /arcade/api/
Disallow: /dink/api/
Disallow: /bodybag/api/
Disallow: /dupr/webhook
Disallow: /find_user_by_ic

User-agent: Bingbot
User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Crawl-delay: 5
Allow: /
Disallow: /player/dashboard
Disallow: /player/edit_profile
Disallow: /player/payment
Disallow: /organizer/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /auth/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /stream/api/
Disallow: /arcade/api/
Disallow: /dink/api/
Disallow: /bodybag/api/
Disallow: /dupr/webhook
Disallow: /find_user_by_ic

# ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
# AI assistants & answer engines — EXPLICITLY WELCOMED.
# We want SportsSync represented accurately in ChatGPT, Claude,
# Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Copilot & Apple
# Intelligence. Public marketing/tournament pages only; private
# and app/API areas stay disallowed below.
# ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: Claude-User
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
User-agent: anthropic-ai
User-agent: Claude-Web
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: Perplexity-User
User-agent: Google-Extended
User-agent: Applebot
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: cohere-ai
User-agent: YouBot
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher
User-agent: FacebookBot
User-agent: Amazonbot
User-agent: Bytespider
Allow: /
Disallow: /player/dashboard
Disallow: /player/edit_profile
Disallow: /player/payment
Disallow: /organizer/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /auth/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /stream/api/
Disallow: /arcade/api/
Disallow: /dink/api/
Disallow: /bodybag/api/
Disallow: /dupr/webhook
Disallow: /find_user_by_ic

# ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
# SEO / backlink scrapers & data miners — blocked
# (no GEO value, just bandwidth)
# ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
User-agent: AhrefsBot
User-agent: SemrushBot
User-agent: MJ12bot
User-agent: DotBot
User-agent: BLEXBot
User-agent: SearchmetricsBot
User-agent: MegaIndex.ru
User-agent: BacklinkCrawler
User-agent: serpstatbot
User-agent: DataForSeoBot
User-agent: PetalBot
User-agent: Sogou
User-agent: Yandex
User-agent: Baiduspider
User-agent: MauiBot
User-agent: Slurp
Disallow: /

# Generic scraping libraries — blocked
User-agent: python-requests
User-agent: curl
User-agent: wget
User-agent: Scrapy
User-agent: Go-http-client
User-agent: Java
User-agent: libwww-perl
User-agent: httpx
Disallow: /

# ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
# Everything else — allowed (public only).
# Honeypot + private paths blocked. The honeypot path is referenced
# by app/security/honeypot.py — keep it listed here.
# ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 10
Allow: /
Disallow: /honeypot-trap-d8f3a2/
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-login.php
Disallow: /.env
Disallow: /.git/
Disallow: /config.php
Disallow: /admin.php
Disallow: /player/dashboard
Disallow: /player/edit_profile
Disallow: /player/payment
Disallow: /organizer/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /auth/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /stream/api/
Disallow: /arcade/api/
Disallow: /dink/api/
Disallow: /bodybag/api/
Disallow: /dupr/webhook
Disallow: /find_user_by_ic

# Sitemap
Sitemap: https://sportssync.asia/sitemap.xml