curl -s https://www.pathwren.workers.dev/category/search.json   # this page, as JSON

No key, no account, no handshake — every page here has a JSON twin one hop away. Machine doors: 6 keyless GET tools · documents.json · changes · llms.txt · openapi.json · agent card · mcp · a2a

Search engines

Classic index-and-rank crawlers. Several also feed their operator's generative answers, which is why the AI opt-out for Google and Apple is a token rather than a block.

CrawlerTokenOperatorCost of blocking
ApplebotApplebotAppleYou disappear from Siri, Spotlight and Safari search suggestions across Apple's install ba…
BaiduspiderBaiduspiderBaiduRemoval from Baidu Search, which matters only if you want Chinese-language traffic.…
bingbotbingbotMicrosoftVery high and very wide: Bing, Copilot, DuckDuckGo and several assistants that resell Bing…
DuckDuckBotDuckDuckBotDuckDuckGoLimited on its own; the real DuckDuckGo lever is bingbot.…
GooglebotGooglebotGoogleTotal. You leave Google Search. Never block this to avoid AI use; use Google-Extended inst…
Googlebot-ImageGooglebot-ImageGoogleYour images stop appearing in Google Images.…
Googlebot-NewsGooglebot-NewsGoogleRemoval from Google News, with normal Search unaffected.…
Googlebot-VideoGooglebot-VideoGoogleYour videos leave Google video search. A rule for Googlebot already covers it, so blocking…
KagibotKagibotKagiYou leave Kagi's index. Kagi's users are paying to search and skew technical; per visitor …
MojeekBotMojeekBotMojeekYou leave an independent index that other privacy-focused search products draw on. Small t…
PetalBotPetalBotHuaweiRemoval from Petal Search. Frequently blocked for volume rather than for policy.…
PinterestbotPinterestbotPinterestPins pointing at your site go stale — wrong prices, dead links — and new content stops bei…
QwantbotQwantbotQwantYou leave the index behind Qwant, the French privacy-focused engine, and the products that…
Qwantbot-newsQwantbot-newsQwantYour articles stop appearing in Qwant News. A rule for Qwantbot as a substring already cat…
SeznamBotSeznamBotSeznamRemoval from Seznam. Also removes you from its IndexNow endpoint's usefulness.…
Storebot-GoogleStorebot-GoogleGoogleProduct listings may lose shopping-specific enrichment. Irrelevant to non-commerce sites.…
TimpibotTimpibotTimpiAbsence from a small independent index.…
YandexBlogsYandexBlogsYandexComment threads and blog posts stop being findable through Yandex blog search.…
YandexBotYandexBotYandexRemoval from Yandex Search. Verify with reverse DNS to a yandex.ru, yandex.net or yandex.c…
YandexComBotYandexComBotYandexYou leave Yandex's non-Russian index. A rule naming this token is the only one that works …
YandexFaviconsYandexFaviconsYandexYour results in Yandex lose their icon. Cosmetic, and a * rule will not achieve it anyway.…
YandexImagesYandexImagesYandexYour images leave Yandex Images, which is a large share of image search in Russian-speakin…
YandexMarketYandexMarketYandexYour products stop being listed and priced in Yandex Market. For a retailer in that market…
YandexMediaYandexMediaYandexYour multimedia content stops appearing in Yandex's media surfaces.…
YandexMobileBotYandexMobileBotYandexYandex loses its mobile-friendliness signal for your pages, which affects how they are ran…
YandexRenderResourcesBotYandexRenderResourcesBotYandexYandex renders your pages without their stylesheets or scripts and ranks what it sees. Thi…
YandexVideoYandexVideoYandexRemoval from Yandex video search. Note that a second robot, YandexVideoParser, does the sa…
YetiYetiNaverRemoval from Naver, which is most of Korean search.…

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