RobotsDisallowed

RobotsDisallowed is a public catalog that tracks websites and organizations explicitly blocking AI and web-scraping crawlers in their robots.txt or related mechanisms. It focuses on documenting the growing trend of content owners asserting control over how their data is used for model training and automated harvesting. The project aggregates domains, notes the targeted bots or user agents, and surfaces patterns for researchers, policymakers, and tool builders. It serves both as a transparency effort and as a resource for people designing allow/deny strategies for automated access. The dataset invites community contributions to keep the picture current as new bots emerge and policies shift. It also highlights the intersection of web standards, ethics, and AI governance by showing how site owners operationalize consent and restriction at scale.