# robots.txt for screamingfrog.co.uk — corrected by CrawlCheck, 2026-09-03
# Source: the file the site served at the time. Every change is listed here; nothing else was touched.
# Changes:
#   - Added a Sitemap line: https://screamingfrog.co.uk/sitemap.xml answered 200 with XML but the file never named it.
#   - 5 named groups lacked Disallow lines the * group carries. A crawler obeys only its own most specific group and ignores *, so those rules never applied to it. Copied in.
# Verify after publishing: curl -sI https://screamingfrog.co.uk/robots.txt must show text/plain, on the bare URL, with no cache-buster.

User-agent: *
Disallow: /products/
Disallow: /?s=*
Disallow: /*?post_type*
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /wp-content/themes/screamingfrog/inc/download-modal.php
Disallow: /wp-content/themes/screamingfrog/inc/download-modal-lfa.php

# Protection of frog team

User-agent: pesticides
Disallow: /frogs/
Disallow: /products/
Disallow: /?s=*
Disallow: /*?post_type*
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /wp-content/themes/screamingfrog/inc/download-modal.php
Disallow: /wp-content/themes/screamingfrog/inc/download-modal-lfa.php

User-agent: toads
Disallow: /frogs/
Disallow: /products/
Disallow: /?s=*
Disallow: /*?post_type*
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /wp-content/themes/screamingfrog/inc/download-modal.php
Disallow: /wp-content/themes/screamingfrog/inc/download-modal-lfa.php

User-agent: common salt
Disallow: /frogs/
Disallow: /products/
Disallow: /?s=*
Disallow: /*?post_type*
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /wp-content/themes/screamingfrog/inc/download-modal.php
Disallow: /wp-content/themes/screamingfrog/inc/download-modal-lfa.php

User-agent: the french
Disallow: /frogs/legs/
Disallow: /products/
Disallow: /?s=*
Disallow: /*?post_type*
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /wp-content/themes/screamingfrog/inc/download-modal.php
Disallow: /wp-content/themes/screamingfrog/inc/download-modal-lfa.php

# Protection of frog teams sanity

User-agent: recruitment agencies
Disallow: /frogs/phones/
Disallow: /products/
Disallow: /?s=*
Disallow: /*?post_type*
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /wp-content/themes/screamingfrog/inc/download-modal.php
Disallow: /wp-content/themes/screamingfrog/inc/download-modal-lfa.php

# Screaming Frog - Search Engine Marketing

# If you're looking at our robots.txt then you might well be interested in our current SEO vacancies :-) 

# https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/careers/

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Sitemap: https://screamingfrog.co.uk/sitemap.xml