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How to Check Which AI Crawlers Your robots.txt Actually Blocks

To check which AI crawlers your robots.txt blocks, take each crawler's user-agent token, find the group in your file that matches it, and read only that group's rules. Then confirm the result in your server logs, because robots.txt states what you want. It doesn't enforce it. Most people assume one…

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  1. 2026-11-13 02:55 · DEV Community — AI
    How to Check Which AI Crawlers Your robots.txt Actually Blocks

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