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PeopleIncRobotsPolicy
PeopleIncRobotsPolicy
Captures the per-brand robots.txt policy observed across People Inc properties (people.com, allrecipes.com, investopedia.com, bhg.com, etc). Most brands publish an explicit AI-bot blocklist: ClaudeBot, Claude-Web, anthropic-ai, GPTBot (paths restricted), ChatGPT-User (paths restricted), CCBot, news-please, cohere-ai, ImagesiftBot, FriendlyCrawler, Quora-Bot, omgilibot, omgili, PerplexityBot. Schema is provider-defined (no W3C standard).
Media Publishing Magazines Content Advertising Contextual Advertising Lifestyle News RSS Sitemap Robots AI Policy IaC
Properties
Name
Type
Description
host
string
Brand domain the policy applies to.
fetchedAt
string
userAgentRules
array
sitemaps
array
Sitemap URLs declared via Sitemap: directives, if any.
aiBotPolicy
object
Derived summary of how the brand treats AI crawlers.
JSON Schema
{
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"$id": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/meredith/main/json-schema/robots-policy-schema.json",
"title": "PeopleIncRobotsPolicy",
"description": "Captures the per-brand robots.txt policy observed across People Inc properties (people.com, allrecipes.com, investopedia.com, bhg.com, etc). Most brands publish an explicit AI-bot blocklist: ClaudeBot, Claude-Web, anthropic-ai, GPTBot (paths restricted), ChatGPT-User (paths restricted), CCBot, news-please, cohere-ai, ImagesiftBot, FriendlyCrawler, Quora-Bot, omgilibot, omgili, PerplexityBot. Schema is provider-defined (no W3C standard).",
"type": "object",
"required": ["host", "userAgentRules"],
"properties": {
"host": { "type": "string", "format": "hostname", "description": "Brand domain the policy applies to." },
"fetchedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time" },
"userAgentRules": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"required": ["userAgent"],
"properties": {
"userAgent": { "type": "string", "description": "User-agent token from the rule block." },
"disallow": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } },
"allow": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } },
"comment": { "type": "string" }
}
}
},
"sitemaps": {
"type": "array",
"items": { "type": "string", "format": "uri" },
"description": "Sitemap URLs declared via Sitemap: directives, if any."
},
"aiBotPolicy": {
"type": "object",
"description": "Derived summary of how the brand treats AI crawlers.",
"properties": {
"fullyBlocked": {
"type": "array",
"description": "User agents that are Disallow: / across all paths.",
"items": { "type": "string" }
},
"partiallyRestricted": {
"type": "array",
"description": "User agents allowed but with specific paths disallowed (e.g. /thmb/).",
"items": { "type": "string" }
},
"allowed": {
"type": "array",
"description": "AI / search crawlers explicitly permitted (e.g. Pinterest, Pinterestbot).",
"items": { "type": "string" }
}
}
}
}
}
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