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Crawler: ExclusionPatterns

Type: string[]
Parameter syntax
exclusionPatterns: [
  'http://www.exculded.com',
  '!http://www.excluded2.com', // URL can use any micromatch pattern
  ...
]

About this parameter

Tells the crawler which URLs to ignore or exclude.

This list is checked against the url of webpages using micromatch. You can use negation, wildcards, and more.

Examples

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{
  exclusionPatterns: [
    // Means all `/about` pages are excluded but not the `/about/ny` one. All pages ending with `.html` are also excluded.
    'http://www.google.com/about/**',
    '!http://www.google.com/about/ny',
    '**.html',
  ]
}
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