> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://algolia.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# exclusionPatterns

> Patterns for web pages to ignore.

* **Type**: `string[]`

The crawler checks this list against page URLs using [`micromatch`](https://github.com/micromatch/micromatch) wildcard patterns.

Common wildcards are:

* `*` matches any characters within a single path segment (it can't cross `/`).
* `**` matches across path segments (it can cross `/`).
* `!` creates an exception. It re-includes URLs that earlier patterns excluded (the crawler evaluates patterns in order).

You can define up to 100 patterns in `exclusionPatterns`.

<Note>
  In micromatch, some characters (for example, `?`) have a special meaning.
  To match them as normal characters, prefix them with a backslash (for example, `\?`).
</Note>

## Example exclusion patterns

| Exclusion patterns                                                            | Skipped by crawler                                                                          | Still crawled                                         |
| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------- |
| `https://www.example.com/blog/*`                                              | `https://www.example.com/blog/post-1`                                                       | `https://www.example.com/blog/2025/post-1`            |
| `https://www.example.com/blog/**`                                             | `https://www.example.com/blog/post-1`<br /><br />`https://www.example.com/blog/2025/post-1` | `https://www.example.com/about/ny`                    |
| `https://www.example.com/**`<br /><br />`!https://www.example.com/updates/**` | `https://www.example.com/blog/post-1`<br /><br />`https://www.example.com/about/ny`         | `https://www.example.com/updates/v2/release-notes`    |
| `https://www.example.com/news/team-changes`                                   | `https://www.example.com/news/team-changes`                                                 | `https://www.example.com/news/important-announcement` |

```js JavaScript icon=braces theme={"system"}
{
  exclusionPatterns: [
    "https://www.example.com/blog/*",
    "https://www.example.com/blog/**",
    "https://www.example.com/**",
    "!https://www.example.com/updates/**",
    "https://www.example.com/news/team-changes",
  ],
}

```