Robots.txt Generator

What robots.txt does

A robots.txt file tells crawlers which parts of a site they should visit, skip, or treat with special rules before they start fetching pages.

How this generator helps

This tool lets you choose a default crawl policy, add explicit allow and disallow paths, set an optional crawl delay, and append sitemap or host directives without writing the file by hand.

Common use cases

• Block admin areas, search pages, filters, or internal tools from broad crawler access.
• Allow a private-by-default site section to expose only a few public paths.
• Publish the main sitemap location so search engines can discover fresh URLs faster.
• Create a starting robots.txt template for staging, migrations, and launch checklists.

Best practices and limitations

Robots.txt is a crawl directive, not an access-control system, so sensitive content should still be protected with authentication or other server-side restrictions.

Different crawlers support different directives. For example, the host directive is not universal and crawl-delay may be ignored by some bots, so always validate your final rules against the crawlers you care about.