Robots.txt Generator

What the Robots.txt Generator does

The Robots.txt Generator creates a valid robots.txt file for your website, letting you set crawler rules, disallow specific paths, and reference your sitemap, ready to upload to your site's root directory.

How to use it

1. Set the default rule for all crawlers (allow or disallow).
2. Optionally list specific paths to disallow, one per line.
3. Optionally add your sitemap URL, then click Copy robots.txt.

Common uses

• Creating a robots.txt file for a new website before launch.
• Blocking search engines from crawling admin, staging, or private URL paths.
• Pointing crawlers to your sitemap.xml for more efficient indexing.
• Fixing a misconfigured robots.txt that's accidentally blocking important pages.
• Generating a starting robots.txt template to customize further by hand.

Good to know

A robots.txt file only requests that well-behaved crawlers avoid certain paths — it isn't a security or access-control mechanism, since it's a publicly readable file and doesn't actually prevent access to disallowed URLs, only discourages compliant search engine bots from indexing them.

The robots.txt standard dates back to 1994, agreed upon informally by early search engine operators rather than through any formal governing body, which is part of why it remains a simple, plain-text convention rather than a more sophisticated access control system — its simplicity is also its limitation, since it relies entirely on voluntary compliance from crawlers.