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robots.txt allows AI crawlers, but does your server? A Python check for GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot

A robots.txt that allows GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot only tells you what the site permits . It says nothing about what the server actually serves . A WAF or CDN bot rule can return a 403 to a crawler that robots.txt welcomes, and you would never see it in the file. Here is a…

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  1. 2026-11-02 13:52 · DEV Community — AI
    robots.txt allows AI crawlers, but does your server? A Python check for GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot

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