How to Check AI Crawler Access (robots.txt / llms.txt) Without a Paid API
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The problem Whether ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Google or a dozen other AI crawlers can reach your site is decided by three small public text files: robots.txt , llms.txt , and llms-full.txt . Checking them sounds trivial until you actually do it. A single robots.txt can name each bot in its own u…
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- 2026-09-26 13:25 · DEV Community — AI
How to Check AI Crawler Access (robots.txt / llms.txt) Without a Paid API