# robots.txt — CricketDream IPL Fantasy Cricket
# https://www.cricketdream.in

# ── Social media crawlers — allow everything so OG images load ──
User-agent: Twitterbot
Allow: /

User-agent: facebookexternalhit
Allow: /

User-agent: LinkedInBot
Allow: /

User-agent: WhatsApp
Allow: /

User-agent: Slackbot
Allow: /

User-agent: TelegramBot
Allow: /

# ── Search engines & all other bots ──
User-agent: *

# ── Explicitly allow all public content ──
Allow: /
Allow: /compare/
Allow: /players/
Allow: /matches/
Allow: /blog/
Allow: /previews/
Allow: /trivia/
Allow: /teams/build
Allow: /leaderboard
Allow: /draft
Allow: /multi-draft
Allow: /dynasty
Allow: /predictor
Allow: /quiz
Allow: /groups
Allow: /leagues
Allow: /how-to-play
Allow: /faq
Allow: /about
Allow: /contact

# OG image generator — not indexable content (linked from og:image meta only)
Disallow: /api/
# /quiz/leaderboard must be explicitly allowed first (longer match wins)
Allow: /quiz/leaderboard
Disallow: /quiz/

# Block all quiz/dynasty/predictor/draft API routes — not crawlable content
Disallow: /api/quiz/
Disallow: /api/dynasty/
Disallow: /api/predictor/
Disallow: /api/draft/
Disallow: /api/multi-draft/

# Block private / auth-gated paths only
Disallow: /api/push/
Disallow: /api/teams
Disallow: /api/me
Disallow: /api/admin/
Disallow: /api/feedback/
Disallow: /api/enquiry
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /profile/
Disallow: /my-teams/
Disallow: /share/
Disallow: /reset-password

# Block query parameters that create duplicate/non-canonical pages
Disallow: /*?tab=
Disallow: /*?ref=
Disallow: /*?utm_
Disallow: /*?fbclid=
Disallow: /*?gclid=

# LLMs.txt — tells AI crawlers (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity) about the site
# https://www.cricketdream.in/llms.txt

# Sitemaps
Sitemap: https://www.cricketdream.in/sitemap-index.xml
Sitemap: https://www.cricketdream.in/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.cricketdream.in/sitemap-players.xml
Sitemap: https://www.cricketdream.in/sitemap-compare.xml