# PayAPI Market — robots.txt
# We welcome AI crawlers. The whole point is to be discoverable by agents.

User-agent: *
Allow: /

# Explicitly allow llms.txt and sitemap (some setups block by default)
Allow: /llms.txt
Allow: /llms-full.txt
Allow: /sitemap.xml

# Machine-readable discovery surfaces. Already covered by "Allow: /" above;
# named explicitly so intent survives any future tightening of that rule, and
# so a crawler that treats unlisted paths conservatively still fetches them.
Allow: /agent
Allow: /agent/
Allow: /openapi.json
Allow: /mcp
Allow: /.well-known/
Allow: /.well-known/x402
Allow: /.well-known/mcp.json
Allow: /blog
Allow: /marketplace
Allow: /how-an-agent-finds-payapi

# AI / LLM crawlers — explicitly allowed (April 2026 list)

# OpenAI
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

# Anthropic
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Allow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /

# Google
User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /

# Perplexity
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot-User
Allow: /

# Meta / Facebook (Llama, Meta AI)
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Allow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher
Allow: /

User-agent: FacebookBot
Allow: /

# Microsoft / Bing (ChatGPT Search substrate)
User-agent: bingbot
Allow: /

User-agent: msnbot
Allow: /

# Amazon (Alexa, Q)
User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /

# Apple Intelligence
User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

# DuckDuckGo / DuckAssist
User-agent: DuckAssistBot
Allow: /

User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /

# Mistral
User-agent: Mistral-User
Allow: /

User-agent: MistralAI-User
Allow: /

# Cohere
User-agent: cohere-ai
Allow: /

# Kagi
User-agent: Kagibot
Allow: /

# You.com
User-agent: YouBot
Allow: /

# Huawei / PanguBot
User-agent: PanguBot
Allow: /

# Common Crawl (training data)
User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /

# ByteDance / TikTok
User-agent: Bytespider
Allow: /

# Diffbot
User-agent: Diffbot
Allow: /

# Webz / Omgili
User-agent: Omgilibot
Allow: /

User-agent: Omgili
Allow: /

# Don't crawl interactive / authenticated routes
User-agent: *
Disallow: /dashboard
Disallow: /login
Disallow: /admin

Sitemap: https://payapi.market/sitemap.xml