# Lots of Sounds robots.txt
# Free CC0 sound effects, soundboard, audio tools, REST API and MCP server.

# Search engines
User-agent: Googlebot
User-agent: Bingbot
User-agent: DuckDuckBot
User-agent: Applebot
User-agent: YandexBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /sign-in/
Disallow: /sign-up/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /ingest/
Disallow: /markdown-home

# AI search and answer engines (fetch pages to cite them in answers)
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
User-agent: Claude-User
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /sign-in/
Disallow: /sign-up/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /ingest/
Disallow: /markdown-home

# AI model training crawlers (allowed: the catalog is CC0)
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: Google-Extended
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /sign-in/
Disallow: /sign-up/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /ingest/
Disallow: /markdown-home

# All other crawlers
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /sign-in/
Disallow: /sign-up/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /ingest/
Disallow: /markdown-home

Sitemap: https://www.lotsofsounds.com/sitemap.xml

# Machine-readable resources
# LLM summary: https://www.lotsofsounds.com/llms.txt
# LLM full context: https://www.lotsofsounds.com/llms-full.txt
# OpenAPI spec: https://www.lotsofsounds.com/openapi.json (also https://www.lotsofsounds.com/openapi.yaml)
# API catalog: https://www.lotsofsounds.com/.well-known/api-catalog
# MCP server card: https://www.lotsofsounds.com/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json