Free AI Crawler Checker
Check if your website blocks AI crawlers like GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and Google-Extended. We'll analyze your robots.txt, meta tags, and headers instantly.
What are AI Crawlers?
AI crawlers are web bots used by companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google to index content for their AI models. When these crawlers are blocked, your brand becomes invisible to AI assistants — they can't cite what they can't read.
Why robots.txt Matters
- Controls which bots can access your site content
- Blocking AI crawlers is the #1 cause of AI invisibility
- Many sites unknowingly block AI bots with wildcard rules
What We Check
- robots.txt rules for 8 major AI crawlers
- Meta robots tags (noindex, noai, noimageai)
- X-Robots-Tag HTTP headers
Frequently Asked Questions
AI crawlers are bots used by AI companies (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Perplexity, etc.) to index web content for their language models. If your robots.txt blocks these crawlers, your content will not appear in AI-generated responses from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and other AI assistants. This is the #1 reason brands are invisible to AI.
Your robots.txt file controls which bots can access your website. Many sites unknowingly block AI crawlers like GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and Google-Extended, either through specific Disallow rules or a broad wildcard block. This means AI assistants cannot read your content and will never cite or recommend your brand.
We check for all major AI crawlers: GPTBot and ChatGPT-User (OpenAI), ClaudeBot and anthropic-ai (Anthropic), Google-Extended (Google AI), PerplexityBot (Perplexity), Bytespider (ByteDance/TikTok), and CCBot (Common Crawl, used by many AI training datasets).
Beyond robots.txt, pages can restrict crawler access through <meta name="robots"> tags in the HTML and X-Robots-Tag HTTP headers. Directives like noindex, nofollow, noai, and noimageai tell crawlers not to index or use your content. Our tool checks all three layers of crawler access control.
Yes. GeoVector's AI crawler checker is completely free with no sign-up required. You can scan up to 5 pages per check and get instant results showing your robots.txt AI crawler status, meta robots tags, and X-Robots-Tag headers. For deeper site-wide audits and ongoing monitoring, GeoVector offers premium plans.