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Common Crawl - Blog - Balancing Discovery and Privacy: A Look Into Opt–Out Protocols

Robots Exclusion Protocol. , which allows website owners to dictate which content can be accessed by automated agents.

Common Crawl - Blog - A Further Look Into the Prevalence of Various ML Opt–Out Protocols

Robots Exclusion Protocol. A commonly used opt–out method is to use the robots.txt part of the Robots Exclusion Protocol.

Common Crawl - Blog - IIPC General Assembly & Web Archiving Conference 2025

Thom Vaughan presenting at the IIPC WAC 2025 for Common Crawl on the Robots Exclusion Protocol. Our team also met with Stephan Oepen from the University of Oslo, and colleagues from the.

Common Crawl - Blog - Expanding the Language and Cultural Coverage of Common Crawl

Robots Exclusion Protocol directives. , ensuring that all this new linguistic content that we will discover is crawled as politely as we have always crawled. If you want to contribute to this project please visit our.

Common Crawl - Blog - IAB Workshop on AI-CONTROL

Attendees discussed the recent popularity of using “robot defenses” to stop crawling, instead of. robots.txt. Providers of these defenses are sometimes treating archive crawlers (like Common Crawl’s.

Common Crawl - FAQ

You configure your. robots.txt. file which uses the Robots Exclusion Protocol to block the crawler. Our bot’s exclusion. User-Agent. string is: CCBot.