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AI Bot Access Checker

Check whether AI crawlers like GPTBot, Google-Extended, and ClaudeBot are allowed or blocked by your site's robots.txt — and fix access issues fast.

What is AI Bot Access Checker?

AI bot access refers to whether artificial intelligence crawlers — such as OpenAI's GPTBot, Google-Extended, Anthropic's ClaudeBot, and others — are permitted to crawl and index your website content. These bots use your content to train AI models or power AI-driven search results. Your robots.txt file controls which bots are allowed or blocked.

How to Fix It

Edit your robots.txt file to add or remove User-agent and Disallow directives for specific AI bots. For example, to block GPTBot, add User-agent: GPTBot followed by Disallow: / to your robots.txt.

Best Practices

  • Decide which AI bots you want to allow or block based on your content strategy.
  • Use specific User-agent directives rather than blocking all bots with a wildcard.
  • Regularly review new AI bots entering the market and update your robots.txt.
  • Consider allowing search-focused AI bots while blocking training-focused ones.
  • Test your robots.txt changes using this tool after every update.
  • Keep in mind that blocking AI bots may reduce your visibility in AI-powered search results.