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Robots.txt Tester

Robots.txt precedence rules — longest match wins, allow can override disallow — are easy to get backwards by hand. This evaluates them exactly as crawlers do.

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Allowedno matching rule — default allow
Sitemaps declared: https://example.com/sitemap.xml

How it works

  1. 1Paste robots.txt content, or fetch it live from a domain
  2. 2Enter the path you want to test
  3. 3Pick a user-agent and see whether it's allowed, and which rule matched

Who this is for

  • Debugging why a page won't get crawled
  • Confirming a new disallow rule doesn't block more than intended
  • Checking rules for a specific bot like GPTBot separately from the default group

Frequently asked questions

Which user-agent group does a bot use if it's not listed?
Crawlers fall back to the User-agent: * group if no rule set specifically names them.