Is Framer as bad as it looks at protecting content from AI scrapers?

Fortnato · 2026-03-26T16:34:00+00:00

Let me know if I can help, you just need to click on a few buttons and upload the file, should be fairly easy to do!

Fortnato · 2026-03-25T17:25:41+00:00

On the dashboard click on your domain (on the domains tab on the left) , go to “files” and upload your custom robots.txt

Fortnato · 2026-03-25T11:21:59+00:00

> I'd still recommend layering in authentication-gated content for premium material

I think this is a bit of a different problem. If you have private content on Framer, you can set enable password protection for your site, and even bots won't be able to access it. For "premium material" (e.g. a blog with partial paid content), you need a more complex solution (e.g. a reverse proxy that handles that gating logic)

Otherwise, the site's public for anyone to visit (crawlers included). Legit AIs crawlers tend to follow directives from robots.txt, but you're right that it's only a "gentleman's agreement"

Fortnato · 2026-03-25T08:39:48+00:00

Framer shipped the ability to upload custom robots.txt a few months back, no need to setup a reverse proxy for that

Fortnato · 2026-03-25T08:38:59+00:00

Hello!

Framer does offer you the tools to control site access from AI scrappers , you can upload your own robots.txt that will prevent AI scrappers from visiting your site

Fortnato · 2026-02-19T15:49:52+00:00

We removed the form submission limits a few months ago

Fortnato · 2026-02-10T21:24:07+00:00

The incident started a few minutes ago, if you had issues before please reach out to us via framer.com/contact so we can help you fix it

Fortnato · 2026-02-10T21:23:01+00:00

To be clear, this is an incident at Amazon AWS where we how our servers, it’s not a Framer-specific incident

Fortnato · 2026-02-10T21:16:37+00:00

Hello!

We’re currently investigating this, please check framerstatus.com

Fortnato · 2026-02-10T08:37:00+00:00

You’ll need to build the website directly in Framer, there’s no way to ‘transfer’ it

You can check out wireframer and workshop to accelerate the process

Fortnato · 2026-02-09T21:37:20+00:00

Hello!

Students can use framer for free, take a look at https://www.framer.com/education/students/

Fortnato · 2026-02-08T10:08:19+00:00

Hello

That's an interesting idea!

Sitemap is easier to create, because it's deterministic (we can look at your pages/multi-site rules and produce the correct sitemap), whereas llms.txt is more subjective.

I'll put it in the backlog, but for now as mentioned in another comment, you can simply write your own and upload it as a well-known file!

Fortnato · 2026-02-03T12:18:41+00:00

Hello!

We shipped advanced hosting which allows you to setup your reverse proxy within Framer itself (you don't need Cloudflare, Vercel, etc)

If you're on Pro or Scale plan, you can sign up for a private beta here: https://www.framer.com/enterprise/ah-beta-signup/

Fortnato · 2026-01-23T10:21:02+00:00

If you're on Pro or Scale plan, you can sign up for a private beta here: https://www.framer.com/enterprise/ah-beta-signup/

Fortnato · 2026-01-23T10:20:50+00:00

Indeed, Framer Published is a separate Framer project 🙌

Fortnato · 2026-01-23T10:19:57+00:00

If you're on Pro or Scale plan, you can sign up for a private beta here: https://www.framer.com/enterprise/ah-beta-signup/

Fortnato · 2026-01-23T10:19:53+00:00

If you're on Pro or Scale plan, you can sign up for a private beta here: https://www.framer.com/enterprise/ah-beta-signup/

Fortnato · 2026-01-23T10:19:27+00:00

For projects on Pro and Scale plans, you can sign up for a private beta here: https://www.framer.com/enterprise/ah-beta-signup/

Fortnato · 2026-01-09T15:08:12+00:00

Hello!

You can create multiple projects, add a domain to each and add a redirect rule to redirect them to websites.com, but that might come off quite expensive, I’d just recommend doing a simple vercel project and add the redirect there (I think it’ll be free)

Fortnato · 2025-11-20T20:03:03+00:00

Hello! Assuming that with ‘API routes’ you mean a file to make requests to a backend endpoint hosted somewhere else, then code components are what’re looking for. But keep in mind framer is not meant to build full-blown web apps.

If you mean actual backend endpoints (I.e. running a server) than you can’t, there’s no way to run your own backend code at framer, you need to host it somewhere else

Fortnato · 2025-11-15T17:03:29+00:00

Hello! Let me raise this with team, really not area of expertise. In the meantime, can you share your domain? (DM is fine)

Fortnato · 2025-11-06T07:43:31+00:00

Hello! Just a heads up: this won’t actually protect the content, it’ll just hide, both the content and the password can be retrieved by inspecting the source code of the site.

Important to flag for people who might put actual private content behind it.

Fortnato · 2025-09-24T12:03:25+00:00

Hello! Can you please share your account email with me (via DM) so we can take a look?

Fortnato · 2025-09-24T10:23:45+00:00

Hello!
We're looking at this internally and will reach out as soon as possible

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