CrawlerControl
Product guide

How it works

Check which URLs each bot can crawl, find out the exact rule that decides access, and download a corrected robots.txt before publishing.

Method

  1. 01

    Separates user-agent groups and Allow/Disallow rules.

  2. 02

    Select the most specific group and apply the longest path match.

  3. 03

    Displays the winning rule, warnings, and a downloadable normalized robots.txt.

Your inputs

Paste your robots.txt and try a route

Edit assumptions and review the result instantly.

Contents of robots.txt
Don't paste secrets; robots.txt is public.
local route
No network request is made.
User-agent
The record is deliberately short and versioned.

Result

Access, winning rule and conflicts

The scenario has been recalculated with the visible data. Review metrics, detail, and limits before using or downloading the result.

  • User-agent tested
  • local route
  • Winning rule
  • Conflicts

Responsible scope

Sources and scope

robots.txt is not authentication, security, or a deindexing command. The simulator implements a practical subset of RFC 9309 and does not query remote URLs.

RFC 9309
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