Infrastructure

# As a condition of accessing this website, you agree to abide by the following
# content signals:

# (a)  If a Content-Signal = yes, you may collect content for the corresponding
#      use.
# (b)  If a Content-Signal = no, you may not collect content for the
#      corresponding use.
# (c)  If the website operator does not include a Content-Signal for a
#      corresponding use, the website operator neither grants nor restricts
#      permission via Content-Signal with respect to the corresponding use.

# The content signals and their meanings are:

# search:   building a search index and providing search results (e.g., returning
#           hyperlinks and short excerpts from your website's contents). Search does not
#           include providing AI-generated search summaries.
# ai-input: inputting content into one or more AI models (e.g., retrieval
#           augmented generation, grounding, or other real-time taking of content for
#           generative AI search answers).
# ai-train: training or fine-tuning AI models.

# ANY RESTRICTIONS EXPRESSED VIA CONTENT SIGNALS ARE EXPRESS RESERVATIONS OF
# RIGHTS UNDER ARTICLE 4 OF THE EUROPEAN UNION DIRECTIVE 2019/790 ON COPYRIGHT
# AND RELATED RIGHTS IN THE DIGITAL SINGLE MARKET.

User-agent: *
Content-Signal: search=yes,ai-train=no
Allow: /

# AI Assistants
User-agent: DuckAssistBot
User-agent: Gemini-Deep-Research
User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher
User-agent: MistralAI-User
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: Perplexity‑User
User-agent: Claude-User

# AI Data Scrapers
User-agent: AI2Bot
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
User-agent: Bytespider
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler
User-agent: Cotoyogi
User-agent: Datenbank Crawler
User-agent: Diffbot
User-agent: FacebookBot
User-agent: Factset_spyderbot
User-agent: Google-Extended
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: ICC-Crawler
User-agent: Kangaroo Bot
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
User-agent: netEstate Imprint Crawler
User-agent: omgili
User-agent: PanguBot
User-agent: PetalBot
User-agent: SemrushBot-OCOB
User-agent: Timpibot
User-agent: Webzio-Extended

Disallow: /
Allow: /$
Allow: /staff/
Allow: /author/
Allow: /projects/
Allow: /category/
Allow: /tag/

# General Disallow
User-agent: *
Disallow: /*?*wp_login_redirect=
Disallow: /*?*view_post_comments=
Disallow: */feed/
Disallow: /search/*
Disallow: /cdn-cgi/*
Disallow: /r/api/ip-access/*
Disallow: /newsletter-ad/*
Disallow: /endpoint/
Disallow: /subscribe/?*
Disallow: /subscribe?*
Allow: /feed/$
Sitemap: https://foreignpolicy.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://foreignpolicy.com/news-sitemap.xml
User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
# Sitemap archive
Sitemap: https://foreignpolicy.com/sitemap.xml