Humans.txt
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The humans.txt file allows the creators of a website to be identified. It is a play on the name of the file robots.txt
. The file is to be placed in the root of a web server, e.g.,
There are no standards to the file. Developers are free to include whatever content they wish. The primary goal is to acknowledge contributors to a site.
Robots Exclusion Standard
The Robot Exclusion Standard, also known as the Robots Exclusion Protocol or robots.txt protocol, is a convention to prevent cooperating web crawlers and other web robots from accessing all or part of a website which is otherwise publicly viewable. Robots are often used by search engines to...
. The file is to be placed in the root of a web server, e.g.,
http://www.example.com/humans.txt
. It can be publicly viewed.There are no standards to the file. Developers are free to include whatever content they wish. The primary goal is to acknowledge contributors to a site.