AI Robots.txt Checker
Verify if your website is blocking important AI crawlers like GPTBot, Claude, and Google Gemini.
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Why use robots.txt?
Your robots.txt is the gatekeeper between your content and AI crawlers. Get it right to maximize visibility and protect what matters.
Control AI Access
Decide exactly which AI crawlers—GPTBot, Claude, Gemini—can index your content and which ones to block.
Protect Sensitive Content
Prevent proprietary pages, staging environments, and internal docs from being scraped by AI training bots.
Boost AI Visibility
Allowing the right crawlers helps your brand appear in AI-powered answers on ChatGPT, Perplexity, and more.
Stay Future-Ready
As AI search grows, a well-configured robots.txt ensures you're optimized for the next generation of discovery.
Why You Need an AI Robots.txt Checker
As AI search engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google's AI Overviews become the new standard, controlling how their crawlers (like GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and Google-Extended) access your site is crucial.
What is an AI Crawler?
AI crawlers (or bots) traverse the web to collect data for training Large Language Models (LLMs) and generating real-time answers in AI search tools. Unlike traditional search engines, some AI bots scrape content purely for training purposes without sending traffic back to your website.
Our free AI Robots.txt Checker helps you identify if your site is vulnerable to unwanted scraping.
Optimize for AEO
Blocking all bots isn't always the best strategy. If you want your brand to be cited as a source in Perplexity or ChatGPT answers, you need to strategically allow certain AI search agents while blocking data-scraping bots.
Using an AI Agent-Ready approach ensures your `.txt` files (like robots.txt and llms.txt) are perfectly configured to boost your visibility in the AI era.
How it works
Enter Website URL
Input your domain name. We'll automatically find and fetch your robots.txt file.
Scan Protocols
Our agent parses your permissions against the most popular AI crawlers.
Get Insights
See exactly which AI models can access your content and which are blocked.
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Frequently Asked Questions
•Why should I control AI crawlers?
Allowing AI crawlers can help your content appear in AI search answers (like Perplexity or ChatGPT Search). Blocking them prevents your content from being used to train models, but might reduce your visibility in their real-time results.
•Does 'Disallow: /' block everything?
Yes, 'Disallow: /' tells a specific bot (or all bots if under User-agent: *) not to visit any page on your site.
•What is GPTBot vs ChatGPT-User?
GPTBot is the crawler used to crawl data for training OpenAI's models. ChatGPT-User is the agent used when a user explicitly asks ChatGPT to browse a specific webpage.
•How do I unblock a specific bot?
You can add a specific block for that bot with 'Allow: /'. For example: User-agent: GPTBot Allow: /