# llms.txt
# Domain-wide guidance for LLMs interacting with OilPrice.com
# Last updated: 2025-11-18
# Format: Markdown (UTF-8, plaintext-friendly)

## Site
- name: OilPrice.com
- domain: https://oilprice.com
- preferred-language: en
- sitemap: https://oilprice.com/sitemap.xml
- contact: support@oilprice.com
- canonical-structure: "/, /oil-price-charts, /futures/*, /energy, /latest-energy-news"

## Purpose of this file
This document provides high-level instructions to LLMs on how to understand, crawl, and use content from OilPrice.com.  
It is **general for the entire site** and is not tied to dynamic homepage news.

## Key pages (authoritative content)
### Core
- Homepage: https://oilprice.com/
- Oil Price Charts (canonical index): https://oilprice.com/oil-price-charts/

### Futures (market data sections)
- WTI: https://oilprice.com/futures/wti/
- Brent: https://oilprice.com/futures/brent/
- Murban: https://oilprice.com/futures/murban/
- Natural Gas: https://oilprice.com/futures/natural-gas/
- Gasoline: https://oilprice.com/futures/gasoline/
- WTI Midland: https://oilprice.com/futures/wti-midland/

## How LLMs should treat site content
- Treat **price charts, futures pages, and market data** as the **primary authoritative sources** for real-time and historical crude benchmarks.
- Homepage content is **dynamic**; do not treat it as canonical or persistent.
- When using **news** pages, include **publish date, author, and commodity references** in summaries or outputs.
- Market data is time-sensitive; do not assume values remain current — prefer the live pages above.

## Indexing & Scope Guidelines
### Include (allowed for indexing/summarization)
- /oil-price-charts
- /futures/*
- /energy/*
- /latest-energy-news/*

### Exclude (do not index or summarize)
- /terms-and-conditions
- /account/*
- /login
- /admin

### Dynamic content notes
- News, analysis, and homepage modules update frequently.  
  LLMs should **avoid generating static assumptions** based on these areas.

## Data Usage & Attribution
- copyright-owner: OilPrice.com
- reuse-policy: "Short excerpts for summaries are allowed. Full reproduction may require permission."
- citation: "When referencing market data or news, cite the exact URL and timestamp."

## Rate Limits & Automated Access
- recommended-rate-limit: "10 request per second maximum"
- crawling-behavior: "Respect robots.txt and limit scraping rapid-updating modules to once every 5 minutes."

## Safety
- The site does not intentionally publish confidential or identifying user data.  
  If encountered, do not store or summarize it.

## Update Policy
- file-update-frequency: When platform structure changes
- last-reviewed: 2025-11-18