# Bulk AI Crawler Policy Checker (`bmiller1009/bulk-ai-crawler-policy-checker`) Actor

Check many domains' robots.txt AI crawler policy in one run.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/bmiller1009/bulk-ai-crawler-policy-checker.md
- **Developed by:** [Sentinel Signal](https://apify.com/bmiller1009) (community)
- **Categories:** Developer tools, AI
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $20.00 / 1,000 completed bulk crawler policy checks

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Bulk AI Crawler Policy Checker

Check many domains' `robots.txt` AI crawler policy in a single run — the bulk-native sibling of AI Crawler Access Checker.

### What it checks

- `robots.txt` rules for named AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, CCBot, and others), for every domain submitted
- Whether each domain's `robots.txt` itself is reachable and parseable

**This reports declared policy only, not traffic.** It does not measure or infer whether any crawler has crawled any of the submitted domains — only what each domain's `robots.txt` currently permits or disallows.

### Pricing

**This is a paid, pay-per-event Actor: $0.02 per successfully checked domain.**

One `crawler-access-check-bulk` event is charged per domain, only after a real result exists for that domain (`success` or a useful `partial`). There is no charge for a domain rejected by local input validation, blocked by the public-network policy, or unreachable.

### Input

- `domains` (required): 1 to 100 public domains to check, e.g. `example.com`.

Example input:

```json
{
  "domains": ["example.com", "example.org"]
}
```

### Output

The default dataset receives one result envelope per domain; `RUN_SUMMARY` in the default key-value store records processing, delivery, billing, and dependency totals across the whole run.

Representative abbreviated output (one dataset row):

```json
{
  "status": "success",
  "target": {"identifier": "example.com"},
  "result": {
    "domain": "example.com",
    "crawlers": {"GPTBot": "blocked", "ClaudeBot": "allowed", "PerplexityBot": "allowed"},
    "robotsUrl": "https://example.com/robots.txt"
  }
}
```

`restricted` means API-IFY rejected that domain locally before calling Verify. `unreachable` means the domain could not be reached. `dependency_unavailable` means Verify was temporarily unavailable. Duplicate domains within one run are collapsed to a single check with a warning.

### How it works

This Actor is a thin wrapper around Sentinel Verify's `POST /v1/utilities/inspect-ai-crawler-policy` endpoint, called once per unique domain with bounded concurrency. Each domain is checked locally against API-IFY's public-network policy before being sent to Verify.

### Limitations

- Public HTTPS domains only; private, loopback, link-local, metadata, reserved, and CGNAT targets are rejected.
- Up to 100 domains per run.
- Reports declared `robots.txt` policy, not observed crawler activity.
- Check availability depends on Sentinel Verify.

### Privacy and security

Each target domain is sent to Sentinel's live Utility API (`/v1/utilities/inspect-ai-crawler-policy`) for analysis after local public-network validation. Results are stored in the customer's Apify run dataset and summary store. `VERIFY_API_KEY` is an operator-managed Actor secret — a scoped `utilities:read` Intelligence API key sent as a bearer token on every request, the same credential mechanism used by any other Utility API consumer; `VERIFY_BASE_URL` is an operator setting, not an Actor input.

### Support

For a reproducible support request, provide the Apify run ID, result `itemId`, and status. Contact Sentinel Signal Systems through the support link on the Actor page.

# Changelog

This Actor's version history is a separate document: https://apify.com/bmiller1009/bulk-ai-crawler-policy-checker/changelog.md

# Actor input Schema

## `domains` (type: `array`):

1 to 100 public domains to check for AI crawler robots.txt policy, e.g. example.com.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "domains": [
    "example.com",
    "example.org"
  ]
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

## `runSummary` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "domains": [
        "example.com",
        "example.org"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("bmiller1009/bulk-ai-crawler-policy-checker").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "domains": [
        "example.com",
        "example.org",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("bmiller1009/bulk-ai-crawler-policy-checker").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "domains": [
    "example.com",
    "example.org"
  ]
}' |
apify call bmiller1009/bulk-ai-crawler-policy-checker --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,bmiller1009/bulk-ai-crawler-policy-checker"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/534hA4hZhj8wA2gdJ/builds/MuEnkEAIgo7iq2hNT/openapi.json