Glossary term
What is robots.txt?
In Apex Flow Academy, "robots.txt" means: A file at the top of a website that asks automated tools to stay out of certain areas. It is taught in Python Automation: Make the Computer Do Your Boring Work and SEO for Beginners: Get Found on Google. Related terms include Backoff, Log, Timeout and traceback.
- 2 courses teach it
- plain-word definition
The facts
What is robots.txt?
A file at the top of a website that asks automated tools to stay out of certain areas. (From Python Automation: Make the Computer Do Your Boring Work. 1 other course defines it for their own subject, so each definition follows.)
What does robots.txt mean in Python Automation: Make the Computer Do Your Boring Work?
A file at the top of a website that asks automated tools to stay out of certain areas.
What does robots.txt mean in SEO for Beginners: Get Found on Google?
A public text file at the root of a site that tells crawlers which addresses they may crawl. It is not a way to hide a page from results.
Where is robots.txt taught?
robots.txt is defined in Python Automation: Make the Computer Do Your Boring Work and SEO for Beginners: Get Found on Google.
Python Automation: Make the Computer Do Your Boring WorkSEO for Beginners: Get Found on Google
Which lessons cover robots.txt?
These lessons name it in their title or objectives:
- Python Automation: Make the Computer Do Your Boring Work, lesson 5.4: Be Patient and Polite: Timeouts, Retries and robots.txt
- SEO for Beginners: Get Found on Google, lesson 5.1: Robots.txt and Noindex: Do Not Crawl Versus Do Not Show
Which terms are related to robots.txt?
Next to robots.txt in the course glossaries: Backoff, Log, Timeout, traceback, Status code, Exit code, JSON, Scheduler, Scaled content abuse and Noindex.
BackoffLogTimeouttracebackStatus codeExit codeJSONSchedulerScaled content abuseNoindex
The hard questions, answered straight
Bold questions people really ask. Each answer comes from the course data or a settled Academy fact.
Do I need experience before I learn robots.txt?
It depends on the course. Each course that teaches it lists its own prerequisites, and all are listed at beginner level:
- Python Automation: Make the Computer Do Your Boring Work: Basic Python: variables, if statements, for loops, lists, dictionaries, f-strings and small functions. Lesson 3 of module 1 has a five-minute check.
- SEO for Beginners: Get Found on Google: A real website to work on (your own, an employer's or a client's with written permission) or a practice site that you plan and describe in detail.