AI Crawler Access Checker
Check which AI bots — GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended — can crawl your site.
About this tool
AI search engines can only cite what they can crawl. This tool fetches your live robots.txt and evaluates access for every major AI crawler — GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, CCBot, Applebot-Extended, Bytespider and Meta’s crawler — telling you exactly who is allowed, who is blocked, and what that means for your AI search visibility.
How to use the AI Crawler Access Checker
- Enter your domain.
- Review the allow/block verdict for each AI crawler.
- Adjust robots.txt with our Robots.txt Generator if the result doesn’t match your strategy.
Frequently asked questions
Should I allow or block AI crawlers?
If you want visibility and citations in AI answers (GEO), allow search-focused bots like OAI-SearchBot and PerplexityBot. Blocking Google-Extended only affects Gemini training, not Google Search rankings.
Which bot affects Google AI Overviews?
AI Overviews uses Google’s normal Googlebot crawl — you cannot block AI Overviews without leaving Google Search entirely.