Hi. Is there any way how to prevent a hosted streamlit app from being indexed by Google?
Usually it would just be a case of adding <meta name=ârobotsâ content=ânoindex,nofollowâ> to the header but with access to the main HTML being limited I couldnât find a way how to add this in my app.
In most cases, Streamlit apps arenât actually indexedâŚthis is something weâre trying to fix though for Streamlit Cloud! If you are using a self-hosted app, adding a robots.txt file for noindexing should work like any other website
To add a subtlety to @snehankekre 's answer⌠thereâs nothing explicitly to prevent an app from being indexed right now, though on a practical basis is doesnât work well currently. At some point, we will fix that (per Snehanâs comment), but neither should be considered the basis of securing your app from the public.
robots.txt will suggest to search engines to not index, and password-protection will keep search engines from actually indexing the content.
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