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# The Pan-Africanist Book Club — robots.txt
# We welcome search indexing and social preview crawlers.
# We do NOT permit AI training crawlers, LLM answer-engines, or bulk
# scrapers to ingest, train on, summarise-at-scale, or redistribute
# our members' writing without prior written permission.
# See /terms for the full Terms of Use.
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# --- Search engines & social previews: allowed ---
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /

User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Twitterbot
Allow: /

User-agent: facebookexternalhit
Allow: /

User-agent: LinkedInBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Slackbot
Allow: /

# --- AI training & LLM crawlers: disallowed ---
# OpenAI
User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Disallow: /

# Anthropic
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Claude-Web
Disallow: /
User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /

# Google AI (Gemini / Vertex training — separate from Googlebot search)
User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /

# Common Crawl (feeds many LLM datasets)
User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

# Meta / Facebook AI
User-agent: FacebookBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Disallow: /

# Bytedance / TikTok
User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

# Amazon
User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /

# Perplexity
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Perplexity-User
Disallow: /

# Apple
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /

# Cohere
User-agent: cohere-ai
Disallow: /
User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler
Disallow: /

# Mistral
User-agent: MistralAI-User
Disallow: /

# DeepSeek
User-agent: DeepSeekBot
Disallow: /

# You.com
User-agent: YouBot
Disallow: /

# Diffbot / Omgili / news-scraping bots
User-agent: Diffbot
Disallow: /
User-agent: omgili
Disallow: /
User-agent: omgilibot
Disallow: /

# Timpi / ImagesiftBot / Kangaroo / Webzio / SemrushBot-OCOB (LLM feeds)
User-agent: Timpibot
Disallow: /
User-agent: ImagesiftBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Kangaroo Bot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Webzio-Extended
Disallow: /

# Everyone else — allowed by default; see /terms for reuse conditions.
User-agent: *
Allow: /

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