SEO & Content

AI Bot Access Control

Analyze your site's robots.txt file; see the access status of GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Perplexity, and 17 other AI crawlers in real time.

AI Bot Access Control
Information

Regarding AI Bot Access Control

AI companies (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Amazon, and more) use specialized bots to crawl the web and train AI models or perform real-time searches. These bots access your site, robots.txt This is determined by the rules in your file. However, seeing which bots are allowed and which are blocked in one place is quite cumbersome.

The AI Bot Access Control tool verifies the website you are visiting. robots.txt It retrieves the file from the server in real time and automatically analyzes the status of 17 different AI crawlers: GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, OAI-SearchBot (OpenAI); ClaudeBot, anthropic-ai, Claude-Web (Anthropic); PerplexityBot and Perplexity-User (Perplexity); Google-Extended (Gemini/AI Overview); Applebot-Extended; CCBot (Common Crawl); Bytespider (TikTok); Amazonbot; meta-externalagent and FacebookBot (Meta); DuckAssistBot and cohere-ai. For each bot... Authorized, Disabled or Not specified (default permission) You can see their status with colored badges.

The results screen also includes a ready-to-turn-off option for AI bots. robots.txt Example rules are also provided. You can also use it to research the policy of any site if you are not the site owner. All queries are server-side; requests are only sent to public IP addresses, local and private network blocks are blocked for security reasons.

How to use it?

Step by step

  1. Enter the domain name or the full URL (for example) example.com or https://example.com).
  2. Check Click the button; the tool will be on the site. robots.txt It retrieves the file.
  3. For each AI bot Authorized, Disabled or Unspecified View your status with colorful badges.
  4. If necessary, you can copy the ready-made rules at the bottom of the page to your site. robots.txt Add it to the file.
FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

robots.txt is a standard protocol that tells web crawlers which pages they can access. AI companies commit to ensuring their data-gathering bots adhere to this file. Configuring the file correctly is the quickest way to prevent your content from entering AI training datasets or being used in real-time AI searches.

If your robots.txt file doesn't have a specific rule for that bot, and the `User-agent: * (all bots)` block doesn't contain any restrictions, the bot is considered allowed access by default. This means you'll need to add a custom rule if you want to block the bot.

No, robots.txt is a technical courtesy protocol; it's not a legal requirement. While serious AI companies' bots commit to following these rules, malicious crawlers may ignore them. For sensitive content, it's recommended to take additional measures such as access control and authentication.

Google-Extended is a special crawler ID that Google uses to develop AI products like Gemini and AI Overviews. It's separate from the regular Google search bot (Googlebot); only if this bot is blocked will your webpage continue to appear in Google search results.

Common Crawl is an open-source web archive project, and many major language models (including GPT-3/4) have used CCBot data for training. Blocking CCBot can reduce the amount of your content that will enter future open-source AI models.
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