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Manage which AI bots can crawl your website — visually.

Toggle GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, and 20+ AI crawlers on/off with a simple UI. Analyze any site's robots.txt instantly.


Features

  • Visual Toggle UI — Block or allow AI bots with simple on/off switches

  • 20+ AI Bots Database — GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, CCBot, Bytespider, Diffbot, cohere-ai, Amazonbot, Meta-ExternalAgent, and more

  • Analyze Existing robots.txt — Paste or fetch any robots.txt to see which AI bots are blocked

  • Generate robots.txt — Create a complete robots.txt with your chosen rules

  • MCP Server — Use with Claude Desktop, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible AI assistant

  • Check Bot Status — Verify if a specific bot is blocked on any website

MCP Tools

Tool

Description

fetch_robots

Fetch and analyze a robots.txt from any URL

analyze_robots

Analyze pasted robots.txt content for AI bot blocking status

generate_robots

Generate a robots.txt with specified blocked bots and custom rules

list_ai_bots

List all known AI bots with user-agents, companies, and descriptions

check_bot_status

Check if a specific bot is blocked on a given website

Installation

Web App

git clone https://github.com/sharozdawa/robotstxt-ai.git
cd robotstxt-ai
npm install
npm run dev

Open http://localhost:3000 in your browser.

MCP Server — Claude Desktop

Add to your claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "robotstxt-ai": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "robotstxt-ai-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

MCP Server — Cursor

Add to .cursor/mcp.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "robotstxt-ai": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "robotstxt-ai-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Tracked Bots

The server knows about 25+ bots including:

  • AI Crawlers: GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, CCBot, Bytespider, Diffbot, cohere-ai, Amazonbot, Meta-ExternalAgent

  • AI Search: ChatGPT-User, OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, YouBot

  • Search Engines: Googlebot, Bingbot, YandexBot, Baiduspider, DuckDuckBot

Why robotstxt.ai vs Manual Editing

Feature

robotstxt.ai

Manual Editing

Visual toggle UI

Yes

No

20+ AI bots database

Yes

Research yourself

Analyze existing robots.txt

Yes

No

MCP Server

Yes

No

Price

Free

Free but tedious

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License

MIT


Built by Sharoz Dawa — SEO Professional & Digital Marketing Expert

GitHub

Install Server
A
security – no known vulnerabilities
A
license - permissive license
A
quality - confirmed to work

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