AI Crawler Check - Can ChatGPT and Claude Read Your Site?

Type a domain and it reads that site's robots.txt the way a crawler does, then tells you which AI bots are allowed in and quotes the line that decides it.

Frequently asked questions

What does the checker actually test?

Three things, all of them read from your own site. It fetches the robots.txt at the root of your domain and works out, for each AI crawler in turn, whether that file lets it in, quoting the line responsible. It fetches your home page and looks for a noindex instruction, both in the meta robots tag and in the X-Robots-Tag header. And it measures how much readable text is in that page's HTML before any JavaScript runs, because most AI crawlers do not run any.

Can it tell me whether my site is already in ChatGPT's index?

No, and neither can anything else. OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Perplexity all publish the user agents they crawl with, and none of them publish what they kept. There is no lookup and no API for it. A tool that answers that question with a confident yes or no is not reading anything, it is guessing. What can be established is whether you are letting them in, which is the half you control.

Which crawlers do the AI chatbots use?

OpenAI uses GPTBot for training data, OAI-SearchBot for its search index and ChatGPT-User when someone asks about a specific page. Anthropic uses ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot and Claude-User for the same three jobs. Google uses Google-Extended for AI alongside ordinary Googlebot, Perplexity uses PerplexityBot, and Apple, Amazon, Meta, ByteDance and Common Crawl each have their own. Thirteen are checked here. Each is named separately in robots.txt, so allowing one does not allow the rest.

My site is in Google, so can AI chatbots see it too?

Not necessarily. Googlebot and the AI crawlers are separate, and a site can rank perfectly well in search while being blocked to every one of them.

Will blocking AI crawlers hurt my Google ranking?

No. Google-Extended governs AI training and Gemini answers only. Ordinary Googlebot crawling and your position in search results are unaffected by it.

How do I allow AI crawlers?

Add an Allow rule for each user agent in the robots.txt at the root of your domain. Crawlers re-read that file on their own schedule, usually within a day, so a change is not instant.

My pages are allowed but never get quoted. Why?

Being crawlable is the first step, not the last. Pages get cited when they answer a question directly, in plain language, with the answer near the top rather than buried under a preamble. Clear headings that match real questions do more than any amount of keyword work.