# Viewlify.app - TikTok Analytics Platform
# https://viewlify.app

User-agent: *
Allow: /

# Private areas. App pages (/app, /dashboard, /discover...) are NOT blocked here
# on purpose: they redirect guests, and Google must crawl them to see that
# (a robots block left /app "indexed though blocked by robots.txt").
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /settings/
Disallow: /exports/
Disallow: /analyses/
Disallow: /api/
# Keep the sitemap crawlable even though /api/ is disallowed (more specific Allow wins)
Allow: /api/sitemap
# Let crawlers fetch OG image endpoints so they can read the X-Robots-Tag: noindex
# header on them. Blocking these in robots.txt made Google index the bare URLs
# ("indexed though blocked by robots.txt") since it could not see the noindex.
Allow: /api/og/

# AI answer engines are explicitly welcome to read public content (they already
# drive our best-converting referrals). Same access as everyone else.
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: Perplexity-User
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
User-agent: Claude-User
User-agent: Google-Extended
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
User-agent: Amazonbot
User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /settings/
Disallow: /exports/
Disallow: /analyses/
Disallow: /api/
Allow: /api/sitemap
Allow: /api/og/

# AI-readable overview: https://viewlify.app/llms.txt

# Sitemap
Sitemap: https://viewlify.app/api/sitemap