I signed up for an API. Its documentation says: “It is recommended that you blacklist bots from your websites to reduce usage costs.”
What does that mean and how to do that?
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I signed up for an API. Its documentation says: “It is recommended that you blacklist bots from your websites to reduce usage costs.”
What does that mean and how to do that?
You would need to set up a robots.txt file that gives instructions on what bots are and aren’t allowed to do.
See http://www.robotstxt.org/.