Verified65% confidenceFactExact time
robots.txt is an industry convention established in 1994 by the Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP) and is not a mandatory legal regulation, but mainstream search engines such as Google and Baidu strictly adhere to it
3
Sources
65%
Confidence
Long-term
Relevance
7/8/2026
First Seen
Sources
Python Web Scraping for Beginners: How It Works, Core Workflow, and Legal Red Lines Explained
bilibiliPyCharm安装激活教程7/4/2026
Related Claims
VerifiedGooglebot determines the scope of crawlable pages by following each website's robots.txt protocol; robots.txt is a text file stored in the root directory of a website used to declare crawlable or blocked pages to web crawlers.73% similarUnverifiedThe RFC specification draft for robots.txt was not submitted by Google until 202272% similarVerifiedThe robots.txt protocol was proposed by internet pioneer Martijn Koster in 1994 and is a plain text file placed in the root directory of a website72% similarVerifiedrobots.txt is a plain text file placed in a website's root directory that tells web crawlers which pages can be crawled and which should be avoided71% similarUnverifiedrobots.txt is an access-control mechanism that tells crawlers what can and cannot be crawled; llms.txt is a content navigation tool that proactively recommends core content worth reading to models64% similar
Cite This Claim
Stable URI
https://kongchang.com/claim/263868API
curl https://kongchang.com/api/v1/knowledge/claims/263868MCP
get_claim(id=263868)