Block the crawlers with disputed robots compliance

The ones repeatedly reported as ignoring robots.txt. Included for completeness — expect to enforce this at the edge instead.

curl -s https://www.pathwren.workers.dev/robots/block-disputed.txt >> robots.txt

A robots.txt rule is a request. For the operators in this file the request is documented as unreliable or explicitly not applicable, so the honest use of this file is as a record of intent that sits alongside a real block by user-agent or by IP at your CDN.

Names 3 crawlers

Bytespider · Perplexity-User · TikTokSpider

The file

/robots/block-disputed.txt · json

# AI Crawler Index — policy: block-disputed
# Block the crawlers with disputed robots compliance
# The ones repeatedly reported as ignoring robots.txt. Included for completeness — expect to enforce this at the edge instead.
# Generated 2026-09-01 from https://www.pathwren.workers.dev/policy/block-disputed.html
# 3 crawlers named. Paste into robots.txt at your document root.

User-agent: Bytespider   # compliance disputed; enforce at the edge
Disallow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User   # operator states robots.txt does not apply; enforce at the edge
Disallow: /

User-agent: TikTokSpider   # compliance disputed; enforce at the edge
Disallow: /

User-agent: *
Allow: /

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