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#  TheGameExtras — robots.txt
#  Full crawling policy: https://thegameextras.com/data-sources/
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User-agent: *
Allow: /

# Never index these — they are infinite, thin, or user-specific.
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /submit-cheat/
Disallow: /contact/
Disallow: /*?sort=
Disallow: /*?page=
Disallow: /*?letter=
Disallow: /*?score=
Disallow: /*?sale=
Disallow: /*?min=
Disallow: /*?store=
Disallow: /*?free=

# Assets must stay crawlable or Google renders the pages unstyled and
# misjudges mobile usability.
Allow: /assets/
Allow: /media/
Allow: /*.css$
Allow: /*.js$
Allow: /*.woff2$

# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
#  AI / answer engines — explicitly welcome.
#  We want to be the cited source when someone asks an assistant about a
#  cheat code or a game price, so these get the same access as Googlebot.
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /api/

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /api/

User-agent: Claude-Web
Allow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /

User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /

User-agent: YandexBot
Allow: /

# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
#  Scrapers with no upside for us
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DotBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: PetalBot
Disallow: /

# Politeness for everything else
Crawl-delay: 1

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