📋 Paste your robots.txt

Copy the contents of your https://yourdomain.com/robots.txt file and paste it here. The audit updates live.

Tip: Open https://yourdomain.com/robots.txt in your browser, select all (Ctrl+A), copy (Ctrl+C), and paste below. Browser security (CORS) prevents this tool from fetching it automatically.

🔎 Audit results

Status of each known AI crawler against your robots.txt.

Allowed
Blocked
Total bots
CrawlerStatus
Paste your robots.txt to see results.

FAQ

What each input / output does

Robots.txt textarea

Paste the contents of your live https://yoursite.com/robots.txt here. The audit parses every User-agent block and its Disallow rules, then checks each known AI crawler against those rules. Updates live as you type — no submit button.

Sample buttons (blocks all AI / allows all AI)

Fill the textarea with a pre-made example so you can see how each kind of configuration parses. "Blocks all AI" pre-loads a config that disallows the AI crawlers in our list. "Allows all" leaves them open.

Allowed / Blocked / Total cards

Live counts of how many of the 18 tracked AI crawlers are allowed vs blocked based on your pasted robots.txt. "Total" is the size of the reference list.

Result table (Crawler · Status)

One row per known AI crawler. Each row shows the bot name, its operator, what it does, and whether your current robots.txt allows or blocks it, with the reason (e.g., "Disallow: / under the matching User-agent" or "Matched by wildcard *").

Copy report / Copy share link

"Copy report" copies a plain-text summary of the audit results to your clipboard. "Copy share link" creates a URL that encodes your robots.txt input — anyone you send it to will see the same audit on their machine (no server involved, the data lives in the URL hash).

General questions

What happens when I allow or block an AI crawler?

Allowing a crawler lets it fetch pages from your site (subject to its own crawl behavior). Blocking it tells compliant crawlers not to fetch any URLs. Some AI crawlers fetch pages to train models. Others fetch pages on demand to answer user queries with citations.

Do AI crawlers follow robots.txt?

The major operators publicly state that they follow robots.txt. Because robots.txt is a request rather than enforcement, server-side controls (firewall, .htaccess, nginx) are required if you need guaranteed blocking.

What's the difference between training crawlers and AI search crawlers?

Training crawlers fetch pages to build datasets used to train AI models. Search crawlers fetch pages on demand to answer user queries with citations, similar to a standard search engine crawler. The two types are usually independent user-agents, so a robots.txt rule for one does not affect the other.

How does the audit work?

The tool parses your robots.txt, finds each User-agent block, and checks the Disallow rules for each known AI crawler. Disallow: / = blocked. No rule or empty Disallow = allowed. User-agent: * with Disallow: / blocks every bot that doesn't have its own specific rule.

Want to build a robots.txt? Try our generator.

If you want to create or update your robots.txt, use the Robots.txt Generator. It has 28+ crawlers pre-loaded.

Does this tool send my data anywhere?

No. Parsing happens entirely in your browser. Your robots.txt content never leaves your device.