Bots by company
Reddit bots and crawlers
Reddit runs a network of discussion communities.
Reddit bots at a glance
- Reddit runs 1 bot listed in this directory.
- They belong to: Social and Messaging Previews.
- Each Reddit bot has its own robots.txt token, so each purpose can be allowed or blocked separately.
- Website: www.reddit.com
Every Reddit bot
| Bot | Group | Purpose | robots.txt | For GEO |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| redditbot | Social and Messaging Previews | Link previewReported | Not documented | Allow |
Block or allow all Reddit bots
The rules below name every Reddit 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 Reddit bots
User-agent: redditbot
Disallow: /robots.txt: allow
# Allow all Reddit bots
User-agent: redditbot
Allow: /robots.txt: partial
# Keep all Reddit bots out of private areas only
User-agent: redditbot
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /my-account/
Allow: /Nginx
# Nginx: return 403 to all Reddit bots
if ($http_user_agent ~* "(redditbot)") {
return 403;
}Apache
# Apache .htaccess: return 403 to all Reddit bots
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (redditbot) [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]Cloudflare WAF
# Cloudflare > Security > WAF > Custom rule, action: Block
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