# Open Index: UK public data on one map. Search engines and AI assistants are welcome.
# Text and worked-out figures: CC BY 4.0. Source data keeps its publishers' licences: https://openindex.co.uk/about#licences
User-agent: *
Allow: /
# Map state is for shared views, not an unbounded crawl of postcode/coordinate combinations.
Disallow: /map/*?
Disallow: /?
Disallow: /v1/
Disallow: /_dev/

# AI crawlers: postcode sectors and units are noindex, with the district's and council's figures.
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
User-agent: meta-externalagent
User-agent: meta-webindexer
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: Amazonbot
User-agent: Bytespider
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: ExaSearchBot
Allow: /
# Map state is for shared views, not an unbounded crawl of postcode/coordinate combinations.
Disallow: /map/*?
Disallow: /?
Disallow: /v1/
Disallow: /_dev/
Disallow: /postcode/*-

# Assistants fetching for a person may also read the API.
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: Claude-User
User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /
Disallow: /_dev/

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