chore: add robots.txt for bot crawl protection#3064
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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <[email protected]>
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Pull request overview
Adds a static robots.txt for the HCA Data Portal to allow general indexing while disallowing specified SEO and AI crawlers, plus advertising the sitemap location.
Changes:
- Adds crawler allow/disallow rules in
public/robots.txt. - Adds a sitemap reference for
https://data.humancellatlas.org/sitemap.xml.
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Ticket
Closes #3063
Summary
robots.txtto block SEO scrapers (AhrefsBot, SemrushBot, etc.) and AI training crawlers (GPTBot, Google-Extended, CCBot, etc.)Note
Pre-commit hook skipped due to pre-existing TypeScript error on main (
REQUIREMENT_LEVELexport missing inaccessorFn.ts).Test plan
robots.txtis served at/robots.txtafter deploy🤖 Generated with Claude Code