---
title: "Liquid objects: robots"
description: The default rule groups for the `robots.txt` file.
api_name: liquid
source_url:
  html: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/liquid/objects/robots
  md: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/liquid/objects/robots.md
---

# robots

The default rule groups for the `robots.txt` file.

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Tip

You can [customize the `robots.txt` file](https://shopify.dev/themes/seo/robots-txt) with the [`robots.txt.liquid` template](https://shopify.dev/themes/architecture/templates/robots-txt-liquid).

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## Properties

* * default\_​groups

    array of [group](https://shopify.dev/docs/api/liquid/objects/group)

  * The rule groups.

```json
{
  "default_groups": []
}
```

##### Example

```
{
  "default_groups": []
}
```

## Templates using robots

[![](https://shopify.dev/images/icons/32/themes.png)![](https://shopify.dev/images/icons/32/themes-dark.png)](https://shopify.dev/themes/architecture/templates/robots-txt-liquid)

[Theme architecturerobots.txt.liquid template](https://shopify.dev/themes/architecture/templates/robots-txt-liquid)