# Bulk AI Crawler Access Checker (`srvscripts/ai-crawler-access-checker`) Actor

Audit AI crawler access across many domains at once. For each domain: robots.txt rules for GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, CCBot and more, plus llms.txt, ai.txt, RSL licensing — and a live User-Agent test that catches domains blocking bots their robots.txt actually allows.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/srvscripts/ai-crawler-access-checker.md
- **Developed by:** [srvScripts](https://apify.com/srvscripts) (community)
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## Pricing

from $3.00 / 1,000 domain checkeds

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 Access Checker (Apify Actor)

For each domain you give it, this Actor reports:

- **robots.txt AI-bot policy** — allowed/blocked for GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, CCBot, Amazonbot, plus the Google-Extended / Applebot-Extended policy tokens.
- **Live User-Agent response test** — how the server actually answers each AI crawler's User-Agent vs a normal browser (catches firewall/CDN UA blocks robots.txt can't show).
- **llms.txt, ai.txt, RSL / Content-Usage** presence and validity.

Read-only: GET requests to the entered domains only; redirects are never followed; private/internal addresses are refused.

### Input

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

### Output (one dataset row per domain)

`domain`, `robots_state`, `policy` (per crawler), `home_baseline`, `live` (per crawler: policy + observed HTTP + flag), `allowed_but_refused_count`, `llms_txt`, `ai_txt`, `rsl`.

### Monetization (you set this in the Apify Store UI)

The code calls `Actor.charge({ eventName: 'domain-checked' })` once per domain that returns a result — so use **pay-per-event** and define an event named `domain-checked`. Market rate for this kind of bulk checker is about $1.50–$3.00 per 1,000 domains. Charging is skipped automatically in local/dev runs.

### Honesty note (keep this in the Store description)

The live test runs from Apify's servers using crawler User-Agent strings — it shows how a site treats those User-Agents, not traffic from the crawler operators' own verified IP ranges. robots.txt is advisory; "policy" and "observed response" are reported separately.

Built by srvScripts — https://srvscripts.com/

# Actor input Schema

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

One domain per line (e.g. example.com). Paste or upload a list.

## Actor input object example

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

# Actor output Schema

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

One row per domain: robots.txt AI-bot policy, live User-Agent response test, llms.txt / ai.txt / RSL, and the allowed-but-refused count.

# 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"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("srvscripts/ai-crawler-access-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"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("srvscripts/ai-crawler-access-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"
  ]
}' |
apify call srvscripts/ai-crawler-access-checker --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,srvscripts/ai-crawler-access-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/pj4YsDmETW4hOLLro/builds/52G7i7Q3wJjAyHxNB/openapi.json