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Which AI crawlers does your robots.txt actually block? Check it in Python

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Most robots.txt files grow by accretion. Someone adds a GPTBot block in 2023, someone else adds a wildcard rule, and nobody can say for sure which AI crawlers can fetch which section of the site today. If you work on GEO or AEO, this matters. A blocked search crawler means your pages cannot be retr…

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  1. 2026-11-03 08:06 · DEV Community — AI
    Which AI crawlers does your robots.txt actually block? Check it in Python

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