You can access the Robots.txt & Sitemap Discovery API programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

1from apify_client import ApifyClient
2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
6
7# Prepare the Actor input
8run_input = { "startUrls": ["https://apify.com"] }
9
10# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
11run = client.actor("213x/robots-sitemap-discovery").call(run_input=run_input)
12
13# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
14print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
15for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
16    print(item)
17
18# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

Robots.txt & Sitemap Discovery API API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Robots.txt & Sitemap Discovery API API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

Other API clients include:

Robots.txt & Sitemap Discovery API API in JavaScript

Robots.txt & Sitemap Discovery API API through CLI

Robots.txt & Sitemap Discovery API OpenAPI definition

Robots.txt & Sitemap Discovery API API

Robots.txt & Sitemap Analyzer 🕷️

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Robots.txt Analyzer

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Read robots.txt disallow rules and sitemap declarations.

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Sitemap URL Intelligence

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Discover robots.txt sitemap entries and classify public sitemap URLs by page type.

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Robots Sitemap Analyzer - SEO Crawl Rules

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Analyze robots.txt files and discover sitemap URLs, user-agent groups, allow rules, disallow rules and crawl-delay directives.

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Robots.txt Auditor & Sitemap Finder

andok/robotstxt-auditor

Scan robots.txt files in bulk to extract sitemap URLs and verify crawler directives for technical SEO compliance.

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Sitemap & Robots SEO Index Auditor

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Audit robots.txt, sitemap discovery, indexability signals, canonical tags, and SEO crawl readiness for business websites.

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Sitemap URL Extractor — robots.txt + sitemap.xml Crawl

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Discover every URL a site exposes via its public sitemap chain. Reads robots.txt, follows Sitemap declarations, recursively descends sitemap-index files, extracts URLs with lastmod, changefreq, priority.

vøiddo

Robots.txt Auditor

junipr/robots-txt-auditor

Fetch and audit robots.txt syntax, user-agent rules, blocked paths, sitemap declarations, and crawl risks.

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Sitemap URL Extractor

lnlenost/sitemap-url-extractor

Extract page URLs from robots.txt and sitemap.xml files for SEO audits, URL discovery crawl planning, and data pipelines.

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Robots.txt & Sitemap Analyzer

automation-lab/robots-sitemap-analyzer

This actor fetches and parses robots.txt and sitemap.xml files for any list of websites. It extracts crawl directives (user-agent rules, allowed/disallowed paths, crawl-delay), discovers sitemap URLs, and counts the number of pages listed in each sitemap. Use it for SEO audits, competitive...