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Bluesky bots and crawlers
Bluesky runs a decentralized social network built on the AT Protocol.
Bluesky bots at a glance
- Bluesky runs 1 bot listed in this directory.
- They belong to: Social and Messaging Previews.
- Each Bluesky bot has its own robots.txt token, so each purpose can be allowed or blocked separately.
- Website: bsky.app
Every Bluesky bot
| Bot | Group | Purpose | robots.txt | For GEO |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bluesky | Social and Messaging Previews | Link previewReported | Not documented | Allow |
Block or allow all Bluesky bots
The rules below name every Bluesky token in this directory. To block training but keep AI search, delete the search and assistant tokens from the block rule.
robots.txt: block
# Block all Bluesky bots
User-agent: Bluesky
Disallow: /robots.txt: allow
# Allow all Bluesky bots
User-agent: Bluesky
Allow: /robots.txt: partial
# Keep all Bluesky bots out of private areas only
User-agent: Bluesky
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /my-account/
Allow: /Nginx
# Nginx: return 403 to all Bluesky bots
if ($http_user_agent ~* "(Bluesky)") {
return 403;
}Apache
# Apache .htaccess: return 403 to all Bluesky bots
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (Bluesky) [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]Cloudflare WAF
# Cloudflare > Security > WAF > Custom rule, action: Block
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