diff --git a/swh/web/ui/static/robots.txt b/swh/web/ui/static/robots.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d34624918
--- /dev/null
+++ b/swh/web/ui/static/robots.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+User-agent: *
+Disallow: /api/