AI crawler access check

Check If AI Crawlers Can Access Your Website

Test GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, OAI-SearchBot, robots.txt, headers, meta robots, sitemap, llms.txt, and user-triggered fetcher context in one transparent report.

What it checks

More than a robots.txt glance

A crawler policy can look open while a page still blocks discovery through headers, meta tags, redirects, thin rendered content, missing AI-readable discovery files, or confusing bot roles.

Check public crawler policy

Parse robots.txt for major AI search, training, classic search, and common crawlers at the exact URL path.

Inspect page-level signals

Review HTTP status, redirects, meta robots, X-Robots-Tag, canonical, readable text, and JSON-LD.

Find AI-readiness gaps

Check sitemap, llms.txt, llms-full.txt, user-triggered fetcher context, and copy-ready fixes without promising guaranteed AI visibility.

Boundaries

A check, not a guarantee

This tool diagnoses public access signals that site owners control. It does not bypass bot defenses, log into websites, or promise citation in any AI answer surface.

Visibility mode

Find accidental blocks that may prevent AI search or retrieval systems from reading public pages.

Protection mode

See which training or retrieval bots you are allowing, then choose a policy intentionally.

Evidence first

Every recommendation ties back to a visible rule, header, tag, status, missing file, or documented bot behavior.

Tool matrix

One scanner, focused readiness reports

Start with the full AI crawler access scan, then use the focused pages when the job is llms.txt validation, technical AEO readiness, or AI search visibility prerequisites.