Robots.txt

3 videos across 2 channels

Robots.txt is shown as a gatekeeper and facilitator for web automation: it guides AI agents on what to crawl or ignore, while tools and standards push sites toward being agent-ready with clear sitemaps, exposed APIs, and content designed for machine interaction. The talk on Cloudflare’s crawl API demonstrates how respectful crawling can coexist with protections, reflecting how robots.txt rules influence access across sites with varying policies, and why resilience and visibility continue to shape its use in an AI-driven web.