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Robots.txt AI Bot Checker

Paste your website URL. We read your live robots.txt and show whether major AI crawlers are explicitly allowed, blocked with Disallow: /, or not named in the file.

Analyze your robots.txt

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Why AI bots matter

Crawler access in robots.txt is the first gate for training and retrieval use cases.

GPTBot & ChatGPT

OpenAI’s crawlers (including GPTBot and related user agents) collect public pages for ChatGPT browsing and model-related use. If they’re disallowed, ChatGPT may be less likely to rely on your site as a source.

ClaudeBot

Anthropic uses ClaudeBot and Anthropic-AI to retrieve web content for Claude. Your robots.txt is the first gate for whether those agents may fetch your pages at all.

PerplexityBot

PerplexityBot powers Perplexity’s live answers and citations. Blocking it can remove you from those answer panels, sometimes intentionally, sometimes by accident alongside a broad User-agent: * rule.

This tool only interprets explicit User-agent lines that match each bot’s token. If a bot isn’t listed in your file, we show “Not specified”; you may still inherit rules from other blocks depending on crawler behavior.

Go beyond a one-off robots check

Monitor AI visibility over time, compare to competitors, and act on clear recommendations, not just a single static file.