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