AI Search Crawler Inspector

Fetch any URL as ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google. See exactly which AI bots can read your page — and which are blocked.

We'll fetch your URL as 13 different AI bots and search engines.

Why AI Search Crawler Inspector matters

If AI bots like ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity are blocked from reading your website, your content will never be cited in AI answers. Cloud firewalls, hidden JavaScript rendering, or overly strict robots.txt files can silently kill your AI visibility without ever showing up as broken in a normal web browser. Our tool fetches your URL across thirteen different AI agents simultaneously, revealing exactly who can access your content and who is getting shut out.

How it works

robots.txt
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We analyze your robots.txt

We pull your live robots.txt file and parse it exactly like a real crawler would, testing each bot's user-agent token against your specific allow/disallow rules. Often, what webmasters think they configured differs from how bots actually interpret it.

GPTBot
ClaudeBot
Googlebot
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We fetch your page as each bot

We send parallel live requests using the exact user-agent strings of 13 major AI crawlers, allowing you to see the exact response your server returns to them.

GPTBot
Allowed
ClaudeBot
Blocked
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We compare the results

We aggregate the HTTP status codes, verify if real content was served, and cross-reference the robots.txt allowance—providing a clean, side-by-side view to instantly identify any blocked bots.

What it checks

HTTP status per bot

A 200 OK for a human browser might be a 403 Forbidden for an AI bot due to security layers. We expose these invisible failures side-by-side.

Real content presence

A 200 status isn't enough. We verify if the HTML actually contains readable text (like H1s and paragraphs), easily catching JavaScript-only blank pages or CDN bot challenges.

Robots.txt verdict

We evaluate your live robots.txt rules against your specific URL path to confirm if an AI agent is truly permitted to crawl it.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • We test 13 key agents (GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, Claude-User, PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User, Googlebot, Bingbot, Bytespider, Meta-ExternalAgent, Google-Extended, and Applebot-Extended). All of them receive live fetches, allowing you to see the exact response your server returns to them, and they are also analyzed via robots.txt.
  • This usually happens if your page relies heavily on client-side JavaScript to render text (which some crawlers cannot execute) or if a firewall served a bot-challenge interstitial page. Both return a 200 success status, but effectively hide your actual content from AI.
  • It depends. If the 403 is for search or assistant bots (like ChatGPT or Perplexity), yes—it means you won't be cited in AI answers. If you purposefully blocked a scraper from harvesting your data for training, a 403 means your security blocks are working correctly.
  • Yes, being blocked guarantees zero visibility for that specific bot. However, if your page is fully accessible but still scores poorly, your content formatting and keyword strategy itself may need optimization.
  • You can re-run this tool immediately to verify your new configuration. However, when the actual AI crawlers decide to revisit and re-index your site depends entirely on their own internal, unpublished schedules.