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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 GPTBot, ClaudeBot, or PerplexityBot cannot reach your page, no amount of SEO will get you cited. Cloudflare challenges, a stray robots.txt directive, a JavaScript-only render, and a 403 served only to bots all kill AI visibility silently, and none of them show up in a browser. This tool fetches your URL as thirteen different bots side by side and shows you who actually got the page.

How it works

  1. 01

    We read your robots.txt

    Your live file is fetched and parsed the way a crawler parses it, matching each bot's token against your user-agent blocks with wildcard fallback. Rules people believe they wrote and rules that actually apply are frequently different.

  2. 02

    We fetch your page as each bot

    Eleven crawlers get a real request carrying their published user-agent string, in parallel. What comes back is what they would see.

  3. 03

    We compare the results

    Status code, response size, whether the body contains real content, and the robots.txt verdict, laid out per bot so a single blocked crawler is obvious rather than buried.

What it checks

HTTP status per bot
A 200 for your browser and a 403 for GPTBot is a common and completely invisible failure. Here the two sit in the same table.
Was there content in the response
A 200 is not a pass. We check the returned body for an H1 and real paragraphs, which is how a JavaScript-only page or a bot challenge served with a 200 gets caught.
Robots.txt verdict
Whether each bot is allowed at that specific path, evaluated against your live file rather than assumed from the file's intent.
Training-only tokens
Google-Extended and Applebot-Extended never fetch anything themselves; they are robots.txt tokens that govern training use. We report their directive and say so, rather than inventing a fetch result.
[ FAQ ]

AI Search Crawler Inspector,
answered.

Thirteen. Eleven get a live fetch: GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, Claude-User, PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User, Googlebot, Bingbot, Bytespider, and Meta-ExternalAgent. Two are reported from robots.txt alone, because Google-Extended and Applebot-Extended are training directives rather than crawlers.
Two usual causes. Either the page renders its content in JavaScript, so the HTML arrives as an empty shell and the crawler never runs the script, or a CDN served a bot-challenge interstitial with a 200 status. Both look fine to a status check and both mean your content did not arrive.
It depends which bot. A 403 to an assistant fetcher or an AI search indexer means you are not citable through that product, which is worth fixing. A 403 to a training collector may be exactly what you configured on purpose. Read the category before you read the status.
It caps your ceiling, so it is the first thing to rule out. But an unblocked site with nothing quotable on it will also score low. Run this to eliminate the mechanical explanation, then run the Content Grader on the pages you want cited.
Re-run this immediately to confirm the file parses the way you meant. Whether the crawlers act on it is up to their own schedules, which are not published and vary by product, so treat re-crawl timing as unknown rather than assuming a day or a week.
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