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Phind bots and crawlers
Phind runs an AI answer engine for software developers.
Phind bots at a glance
- Phind runs 1 bot listed in this directory.
- They belong to: AI Assistant Fetchers.
- Each Phind bot has its own robots.txt token, so each purpose can be allowed or blocked separately.
- Website: www.phind.com
Every Phind bot
| Bot | Group | Purpose | robots.txt | For GEO |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PhindBot | AI Assistant Fetchers | AI searchAI assistantReported | Not documented | Your choice |
Block or allow all Phind bots
The rules below name every Phind 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 Phind bots
User-agent: PhindBot
Disallow: /robots.txt: allow
# Allow all Phind bots
User-agent: PhindBot
Allow: /robots.txt: partial
# Keep all Phind bots out of private areas only
User-agent: PhindBot
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /my-account/
Allow: /Nginx
# Nginx: return 403 to all Phind bots
if ($http_user_agent ~* "(PhindBot)") {
return 403;
}Apache
# Apache .htaccess: return 403 to all Phind bots
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (PhindBot) [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]Cloudflare WAF
# Cloudflare > Security > WAF > Custom rule, action: Block
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