Flight Log / mendableai/firecrawl #1880

Fix robots.txt HTML filtering to check content structure — a Devin (Cognition) bot flight

The Devin bot (Cognition) opened this pull request in mendableai/firecrawl on Jul 29, 2025; merged clean in 16 min, merged by @micahstairs: +1 −1, 1 file, 3 reviews.

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Devin fixed a bug in mendableai/firecrawl where valid robots.txt files served as text/html were filtered out, so checkRobotsOnScrape=true failed silently for those sites. The change was one file, one line added, one removed, in one commit. Three reviews were recorded, with zero change requests and zero review comments. The PR merged clean after 0.27 hours.

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# Fix robots.txt HTML filtering to check content structure ## Summary This PR fixes a bug where valid robots.txt files served with incorrect `text/html` content-type headers were being filtered out and ignored, causing `checkRobotsOnScrape=true` to silently fail for such sites. **Root Cause**: Th…

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  1. —committedDevin AI
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  5. Jul 29, 2025mergedmicahstairs
  6. Jul 29, 2025closedmicahstairs

Cite this flight: AgentRiders Flight Log, mendableai/firecrawl#1880, record updated Nov 4, 2026, https://agentriders.com/logs/mendableai/firecrawl/1880/

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