Is Google excluded from crawling this board?

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Re: Is Google excluded from crawling this board?

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I missed this one, should be good now, thanks !
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Fred wrote: Mon Aug 18, 2025 9:17 am I missed this one, should be good now, thanks !
Do you still have ip blocks in placd? If so please check that these ranges are allowed:

https://openai.com/searchbot.json
https://openai.com/chatgpt-user.json
https://openai.com/gptbot.json

From https://platform.openai.com/docs/bots/o ... i-crawlers

There's also a more fine tuned third party github page:
https://github.com/FabrizioCafolla/open ... es-all.txt

Because OpenAI still has randomly issues browsing the website. Checked with https://www.purebasic.com/documentation/ and https://www.purebasic.fr/english/

Also have case open with them. But I suspect now one of the browsertool ip's is on your blocklist? Could you check? Thanks.

edit: at the moment it can't access https://www.purebasic.fr/english/, but can access https://www.purebasic.com/documentation
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There is nothing in robot.txt anymore for the english board
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Fred wrote: Wed Aug 20, 2025 8:18 am There is nothing in robot.txt anymore for the english board
I know, but do you have IP ranges blocked or user-agents?
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No all is similar between the forums
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Fred wrote: Wed Aug 20, 2025 8:29 am No all is similar between the forums
OAI-SearchBot
Full user-agent string will contain ; OAI-SearchBot/1.0; +https://openai.com/searchbot

ChatGPT-User
Full user-agent string: Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; ChatGPT-User/1.0; +https://openai.com/bot

GPTBot
Full user-agent string: Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; GPTBot/1.1; +https://openai.com/gptbot
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Re: Is Google excluded from crawling this board?

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Thank you fred and all the PBTeam which responds quickly.

Using ownly Google search systematically and manually to reach the forum, I observed only one cut off, which has been completely and quickly solved.

I appreciate a lot the human side of the forum.
Thank you.
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