AI Crawler Checker — See What AI Bots Actually See
Check your website's visibility to all 17 major AI crawlers at once. Not just robots.txt — actual rendering analysis.
Not Just robots.txt
Other tools parse your robots.txt and call it a day. BotView shows you what AI crawlers actually see.
Other Tools
- ✗Parse robots.txt only
- ✗Show "allowed" or "blocked"
- ✗Miss JavaScript rendering issues
- ✗No visual proof of what bots see
BotView
- ✓Full robots.txt analysis for 17 crawlers
- ✓Side-by-side screenshots: human vs crawler view
- ✓JavaScript rendering analysis
- ✓SPA detection, blocked resources, soft 404s
All 17 AI Crawlers We Check
One scan checks your visibility across every major AI platform.
OAI-SearchBot
OpenAI
ChatGPT search index
GPTBot
OpenAI
Model training
ChatGPT-User
OpenAI
User-triggered fetch
Claude-SearchBot
Anthropic
Claude search index
ClaudeBot
Anthropic
Model training
Claude-User
Anthropic
User-triggered fetch
PerplexityBot
Perplexity
Search index
Perplexity-User
Perplexity
User-triggered fetch
Google-Extended
Gemini training/grounding opt-out
Meta-ExternalAgent
Meta
Meta AI training
Meta-ExternalFetcher
Meta
User-triggered fetch
Amazonbot
Amazon
Alexa answers + AI training
MistralAI-User
Mistral
Le Chat citations
CCBot
Common Crawl
Open dataset
Bytespider
ByteDance
TikTok AI
Diffbot
Diffbot
Knowledge graph
Applebot-Extended
Apple
Apple AI opt-out
Frequently Asked Questions
What makes BotView different from other AI crawler checkers?
Most tools just parse your robots.txt and tell you if a crawler is 'allowed' or 'blocked.' BotView goes further — we actually render your pages as a crawler would and take screenshots showing what bots see vs. what humans see. This reveals issues like JavaScript content that crawlers can't render, blocked resources, and SPA shell problems that robots.txt analysis alone misses.
How many AI crawlers does BotView check?
BotView checks 17 AI crawlers across all major platforms: OpenAI (OAI-SearchBot, GPTBot, ChatGPT-User), Anthropic (Claude-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, Claude-User), Perplexity (PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User), Google (Google-Extended), Meta (Meta-ExternalAgent, Meta-ExternalFetcher), Amazon (Amazonbot), Mistral (MistralAI-User), Common Crawl (CCBot), ByteDance (Bytespider), Diffbot, and Apple (Applebot-Extended). We group them by role: search-index bots are the visibility gates, training bots are a policy choice, and user-fetch agents are informational.
Why would my site be invisible to AI crawlers even if robots.txt allows them?
robots.txt is just one factor. Your content might be invisible because it's rendered entirely by JavaScript (which many crawlers can't execute), behind authentication, loaded dynamically via API calls, or served as a Single Page Application shell with no server-side content. BotView checks all of these issues.
Should I allow all AI crawlers?
Separate the roles. For AI-search visibility, allow the search-index bots: OAI-SearchBot (ChatGPT search), Claude-SearchBot (Claude), and PerplexityBot (Perplexity) — blocking these removes you from those engines' answers. Training bots (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, CCBot, Meta-ExternalAgent, Bytespider) are a policy choice: blocking them keeps your content out of training data without hurting AI-search visibility. BotView's report shows each crawler's role so you can decide per bot.
How often should I check my AI crawler access?
Check after any CMS update, plugin installation, CDN configuration change, or security audit. These commonly introduce AI crawler blocks. For ongoing monitoring, BotView Pro offers 50 scans per month to track changes over time.
Check All 17 AI Crawlers Now
One scan. All major AI platforms. See exactly which bots can access your content.
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