Nuxt Config · Nuxt Robots

`enabled`

Type: boolean
Default: true
Required: false

Conditionally toggle the module.

`allow`

Type: string[]
Default: []
Required: false

Allow paths to be indexed for the * user-agent (all robots).

`disallow`

Type: string[]
Default: []
Required: false

Disallow paths from being indexed for the * user-agent (all robots).

`metaTag`

Type: boolean
Default: true

Whether to add a <meta name="robots" ...> tag to the <head> of each page.

`groups`

Type: { userAgent: []; allow: []; disallow: []; comments: [] }[]
Default: []
Required: false

Define more granular rules for the robots.txt. Each group is a set of rules for specific user agent(s).

export default defineNuxtConfig({
  robots: {
    groups: [
      {
        userAgent: ['AdsBot-Google-Mobile', 'AdsBot-Google-Mobile-Apps'],
        disallow: ['/admin'],
        allow: ['/admin/login'],
        comments: 'Allow Google AdsBot to index the login page but no-admin pages'
      },
    ]
  }
})

`sitemap`

Type: string | string[] | false
Default: false

The sitemap URL(s) for the site. If you have multiple sitemaps, you can provide an array of URLs.

You must either define the runtime config siteUrl or provide the sitemap as absolute URLs.

export default defineNuxtConfig({
  robots: {
    sitemap: [
      '/sitemap-one.xml',
      '/sitemap-two.xml',
    ],
  },
})

`robotsEnabledValue`

Type: string
Default: 'index, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1'
Required: false

The value to use when the site is indexable.

`robotsDisabledValue`

Type: string
Default: 'noindex, nofollow'
Required: false

The value to use when the site is not indexable.

`disallowNonIndexableRoutes`

Type: boolean
Default: 'false'

Should route rules which disallow indexing be added to the /robots.txt file.

`mergeWithRobotsTxtPath`

Type: boolean | string
Default: true
Required: false

Specify a robots.txt path to merge the config from, relative to the root directory.

When set to true, the default path of <publicDir>/robots.txt will be used.

When set to false, no merging will occur.

`blockNonSeoBots`

Type: boolean
Default: false
Required: false

Blocks some non-SEO bots from crawling your site. This is not a replacement for a full-blown bot management solution, but it can help to reduce the load on your server.

See const.ts for the list of bots that are blocked.

export default defineNuxtConfig({
  robots: {
    blockNonSeoBots: true
  }
})

`debug`

Type: boolean
Default: false
Required: false

Enables debug logs and a debug endpoint.

`credits`

Type: boolean
Default: true
Required: false

Control the module credit comment in the generated robots.txt file.

# START nuxt-robots (indexable) <- credits
 ...
# END nuxt-robots <- credits

export default defineNuxtConfig({
  robots: {
    credits: false
  }
})

useRobotsRule()

A reactive way to access and set the robots rule.

Nuxt Hooks

Learn how to use Nuxt hooks to modify the robots config.