# Cookbooker robots.txt
# https://cookbooker.com

# -------------------------------------------------------
# Default: allow all well-behaved crawlers
# -------------------------------------------------------
User-agent: *
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /login
Disallow: /signup
Disallow: /settings
Disallow: /onboarding
Disallow: /verify-email
Disallow: /forgot-password
Disallow: /notifications
Disallow: /bookshelf/add
Disallow: /search

Sitemap: https://cookbooker.com/sitemap.xml

# -------------------------------------------------------
# AI training crawlers — blocked (no traffic benefit)
# Remove a block below if you wish to allow that crawler.
# -------------------------------------------------------

# OpenAI training
User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

# Google Gemini training
User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /

# Common Crawl (feeds many AI training pipelines)
User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

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

# -------------------------------------------------------
# AI search / citation crawlers — allowed (drive traffic)
# -------------------------------------------------------

# Perplexity AI (cites sources, drives referral traffic)
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

# Anthropic (allow for AI discovery/citation)
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /