The LLM Bot Crawl Checker verifies whether major AI crawlers and language model bots can access your website. With the rise of ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and other AI search tools, ensuring these bots can crawl your content is essential for AI search visibility.
This tool comprehensively checks your robots.txt file, meta robots tags, and HTTP headers to identify any rules blocking AI crawlers. It tests access for GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, and other important AI bots, showing exactly which are allowed or blocked.
Beyond just detection, you'll receive specific fixes showing how to modify your robots.txt to allow AI crawlers while maintaining security. The tool helps you balance accessibility for AI systems with protecting sensitive areas of your site.
Get results in just a few simple steps
Enter your domain name to check
We fetch and parse your robots.txt file
Check rules for all major AI crawlers
Analyze meta robots and HTTP headers
Show which bots are allowed or blocked
Identify the specific rules causing blocks
Provide exact robots.txt fixes
Don't make these frequent errors
Using 'User-agent: *' with 'Disallow: /' which blocks all bots including AI
Not knowing that AI bots have different user agents than Googlebot
Forgetting that robots.txt is case-sensitive for user agents
Blocking Googlebot-Extended thinking it's the same as Google-Extended
Not testing robots.txt changes before deploying
At minimum, allow GPTBot (ChatGPT), PerplexityBot, and Google-Extended. Consider also allowing ClaudeBot, YouBot, and Cohere-AI. Each represents a major AI search or answer engine that could send traffic to your site.
Yes, legitimate AI crawlers respect robots.txt rules and crawl responsibly. They're operated by major companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. Allowing them is as safe as allowing traditional search engine crawlers.
You can specifically block AI crawlers while allowing Googlebot. Add 'User-agent: GPTBot' followed by 'Disallow: /' for each AI bot you want to block, while keeping Googlebot allowed. Note this may impact future visibility.
After updating robots.txt, use this tool to verify AI crawlers are now allowed. Changes take effect immediately for robots.txt. You can also use each platform's webmaster tools where available to confirm access.
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