Set Up Robots.txt Categories for Your Node.js Backend

Overview

Use the NPM package to connect your Node.js website to Robots.txt Categories in just a few seconds. Please contact us if you need help getting set up.

Step 1: Install the NPM Package

Download the package from NPM using the command line.

npm install @darkvisitors/sdk

Step 2: Initialize the Client

In your code, create an instance of DarkVisitors with your project's access token.

import { DarkVisitors } from "@darkvisitors/sdk"
            
const darkVisitors = new DarkVisitors("YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN")

• Navigate to the Dark Visitors Projects page and open your project
• Copy your access token from the Settings page
• Back in your code, swap in your access token where it says YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN

Step 3: Generate Your Robots.txt

Use the generateRobotsTxt function. Select which AgentTypes you want to block, and a string specifying which URLs are disallowed (e.g. "/" to disallow all paths). Allowed agent types include:

• AI Agent
• AI Assistant
• AI Data Scraper
• AI Search Crawler
• Archiver
• Developer Helper
• Fetcher
• Automated Agent
• Intelligence Gatherer
• Scraper
• SEO Crawler
• Search Engine Crawler
• Security Scanner
• Undocumented AI Agent
• Uncategorized

Here's an example:

const robotsTXT = await darkVisitors.generateRobotsTxt.([
    AgentType.AIDataScraper,
    AgentType.Scraper,
    AgentType.IntelligenceGatherer,
    AgentType.SEOCrawler
], "/")

The return value is a plain text robots.txt string.

Step 4: Serve Your Robots.txt

Generate a robotsTXT periodically (e.g. once per day), then cache and serve it from your website's /robots.txt endpoint.