Robots.txt Tester — Is a URL Allowed to Crawl?
Pricing
from $0.00015 / url checked
Test whether URLs are allowed or blocked by a site's robots.txt for any crawler user-agent. Returns allowed/blocked, the matched rule, crawl-delay and the site's sitemaps. Great for SEO audits and crawler compliance. One row per URL as JSON, CSV or Excel.
You can access the Robots.txt Tester — Is a URL Allowed to Crawl? 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.
$echo '{< "urls": [< "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search",< "https://example.com/"< ]<}' |<apify call hipersoft/robots-txt-checker --silent --output-datasetThe Apify CLI is the official tool that allows you to use Robots.txt Tester — Is a URL Allowed to Crawl? locally, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Using installation script (macOS/Linux):
$curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bashUsing installation script (Windows):
$irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iexUsing Homebrew:
$brew install apify-cliUsing npm:
$npm install -g apify-cliOther API clients include: