Free AI crawler policy checker

Check robots.txt rules for documented AI crawlers

Enter a public hostname to test whether its deployed robots.txt policy allows, blocks, or has no matching restriction for documented AI crawler tokens at the root path.

The result separates search-discovery, model-training, user-triggered, and other documented crawler purposes. It reports policy evidence only; it does not claim that a provider visited, indexed, cited, or used the site.

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Methodology reviewed 2026-08-05

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Choose a declared policy goal and this page builds robots.txt groups for the documented AI crawler tokens that goal has an explicit preference for, which you can review, edit, and publish.

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AI citation forensics

Paste a prompt and the source an AI answer cited. See which public evidence differs from your site, what is worth testing, and what no external audit can prove.

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What this check looks for

See the public evidence behind the result

OpenForBots examines the relevant public page or resource, shows what it found, and explains what to review next.

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Retrieves robots.txt from the public standard location over HTTPS.
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Evaluates the tested root path for each documented crawler token.
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Shows the matched allow or disallow rule and source line when available.
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Keeps crawler purpose and search relevance separate from the policy verdict.
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Links each crawler result to its current provider documentation.

Example evidence result

OAI-SearchBot is blocked at the tested root path

The live result uses the deployed page or resource and exact check time. This example shows the evidence structure, not a claim about a real domain.

Observed evidence

Observed source: https://example.com/robots.txt
Matched rule: Disallow: /
Documented purpose: search discovery
What the result means: the deployed policy disallows this token at /

Recommended next action

Confirm that the restriction is intentional, change only the relevant rule when authorized, then run a fresh check against the deployed policy.

Understand the result

What the check confirms—and what it cannot tell you

What it can confirm

What robots.txt response OpenForBots observed at check time.
How the documented token resolves for the tested root path.
Which exact rule produced an explicit allow or block verdict.

What remains unknown

An allowed policy does not prove that the provider visited or indexed the page.
A blocked training crawler does not necessarily block a separate search crawler.
robots.txt does not override authentication, CDN challenges, WAF rules, or response failures.
The focused result tests the root path; important subpaths may resolve differently.

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Related guides and methodology

Don't have a robots.txt yet? Build one

Generate a starting robots.txt from a declared policy goal and the documented crawler registry.

Policy, public delivery, initial HTML, and fresh verification explained as separate checks.

Understand why provider tokens with different purposes need separate policy decisions.

Questions about this check

Does allowing an AI crawler guarantee citations?

No. The checker evaluates the observed robots.txt policy. It cannot prove provider visits, indexing, retrieval, citation, ranking, recommendation, model use, traffic, or revenue.

Does blocking GPTBot also block ChatGPT search?

Not necessarily. OpenAI documents separate tokens for different purposes. The checker evaluates GPTBot and OAI-SearchBot independently rather than treating them as one control.

Does this test every page on the website?

This focused result resolves the root path. Use the evidence and methodology to review important subpaths separately when their rules or delivery conditions may differ.