Robots.txt Checker
Enter a robots.txt URL or paste its content directly to analyze what paths are allowed and blocked for different user agents.
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This tool parses robots.txt content and evaluates access rules for specific user agents. It identifies which paths are explicitly allowed or blocked, detects sitemap declarations, and summarizes AI bot access policies.
robots.txt is a voluntary standard — it's a request, not a technical barrier. However, respecting robots.txt is considered a legal best practice. Courts have cited robots.txt disregard as evidence of bad faith in scraping lawsuits. From a compliance perspective, always check and respect a website's robots.txt before scraping.
The tool checks for common AI crawler user agents (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, CCBot) and shows whether the site explicitly blocks or allows them, which is increasingly common as sites establish AI training data policies.