feat: add robots.txt to prevent crawler traps#365
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This commit adds a robots.txt file to the public directory of the Next.js application. The robots.txt file disallows crawling of search pages with query parameters to prevent web crawlers from getting stuck in crawler traps. Fixes openml#335
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There are two issues with this update:
- as noted in the original issue, the current dataset pages include queries (though they are under
/searchso wouldn't be blocked with this) - all pages are currently under the
/searchpath, this robots file is configuring paths which do not exist on the server and are not being crawled.
It's probably easier to wait with the update until the new frontend is live which has fixed urls for datasets so that we can block all queries for crawlers, unless you have a suggestion.
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This pull request introduces a new
robots.txtfile to control how search engines crawl and index certain pages of the application. The main change is to restrict search engine access to specific query-based URLs while allowing access to the main resource pages.Search engine crawling restrictions:
robots.txtfile to disallow crawling of query parameter URLs fordatasets,tasks,flows, andruns(e.g.,/datasets?*), helping prevent indexing of filtered or search result pages.Fixes #335