Is Claude-SearchBot blocked on your site?
Enter a domain to see whether its robots.txt lets GPTBot, OpenAI's training crawler, or any of 14 other AI crawlers read the homepage.
Ask about another crawler:
- OAI-SearchBot
- ChatGPT-User
- GPTBot
- Claude-SearchBot
- Claude-User
- ClaudeBot
- PerplexityBot
- Perplexity-User
- Google-Extended
- Applebot-Extended
- Amazonbot
- DuckAssistBot
- Meta-ExternalAgent
- CCBot
- Bytespider
About Claude-SearchBot
Anthropic says it navigates the web to improve search result quality for users, and that blocking it may reduce your visibility in user search results. Read the operator's documentation.
How to block or allow it
robots.txt rules are read per crawler: Claude-SearchBot follows a group that names it, or else the User-agent: * group. To block it everywhere:
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Disallow: /The AI crawler robots.txt generator makes these lines for any mix of crawlers. The check reads only your homepage path, robots.txt, llms.txt and a HEAD of llms-full.txt; see exactly what is fetched.