# Peter Albee — peteralbee.com
# Robots.txt with AI training opt-out
# Last updated: 2026-07-19

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# BLOCK — AI TRAINING & CONTENT SCRAPING BOTS
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# The following bots are explicitly denied access to all content
# on this site for the purposes of training AI/ML models,
# text/data mining, or building derivative datasets.
# This opt-out is issued under 17 U.S.C. § 106 (US Copyright Act),
# Article 4 of Directive (EU) 2019/790 (EU DSM Directive, TDM opt-out),
# and equivalent provisions in UK, Canadian, Australian, and
# Japanese copyright law.

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Disallow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: GoogleOther
Disallow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: FacebookBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Disallow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: ImagesiftBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: cohere-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: Diffbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: omgili
Disallow: /

User-agent: omgilibot
Disallow: /

User-agent: PetalBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: TimpiBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: YouBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: AI2Bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Ai2Bot-Dolma
Disallow: /

User-agent: DuckAssistBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: MistralAI-User
Disallow: /

User-agent: Kangaroo Bot
Disallow: /

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# ALLOW — LEGITIMATE SEARCH ENGINES
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User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /thank-you/
Allow: /

User-agent: Bingbot
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /thank-you/
Allow: /

User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /thank-you/
Allow: /

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# DEFAULT — All other bots
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User-agent: *
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /thank-you/
Disallow: /downloads/
Disallow: /private/
Allow: /

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# LEGAL NOTICE
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# All content on this website — including but not limited to
# photographs, text, code, and design — is the exclusive
# intellectual property of Peter Albee and is protected under
# U.S. and international copyright law. This robots.txt file
# constitutes explicit notice of copyright reservation and
# opt-out from any AI/ML training, text and data mining,
# or automated content ingestion.
#
# For licensing inquiries: peter@peteralbee.com
# For DMCA takedown requests: dmca@peteralbee.com
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