Analyze robots.txt rules

Evaluate pasted robots.txt rules for a crawler and request path.

Local processing · Nothing is uploaded · 1 MB input limit

Input & settings

Paste text or drop a UTF-8 text file
Ready. Enter your input to begin.

How to use this tool

Enter your own site data. Process and inspect the generated result before adding it to your website.

Limits and behavior

Offline longest-path matching with allow winning equal specificity. Most-specific product-token groups merge. Does not fetch robots.txt or account for status/caching policies. Maximum total input 1 MB, output 3 MB, JSON nesting 64 levels. Processing stays in your browser worker. Input is limited to 1 MB and output to 3 MB. No input content is saved by CraftAI.

Test robots.txt crawl permissions

Paste robots.txt rules, choose a crawler name and path, and inspect the supported allowance calculation.

Does allowing crawling guarantee Google indexing?

No. Crawl permission alone does not guarantee discovery, indexing, or search rankings.

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