Robots Txt Tester API
POST
https://api.findutils.com/api/tools/robots-txt-tester/execute Test URLs or paths against robots.txt text for a given crawler, following RFC 9309 as Google implements it: the group naming the crawler's product token (all such groups merged, "*" only as a fallback), * and $ wildcards, the longest matching rule wins and Allow wins a tie. Returns allowed/blocked per path with the deciding rule and its line, plus sitemaps, crawl-delay and line-numbered warnings. Checks the pasted text only and fetches nothing.
Request body
application/json-
robots
string required
The full robots.txt text.
-
paths
array required
Paths ("/admin?x=1") or full URLs to test, at most 500. For a URL only the path and query are tested.
-
user_agent
string optional
Crawler product token, e.g. "Googlebot", "GPTBot", "Bingbot". Default "*". Default
"*".
Example arguments
Verified{
"robots": "User-agent: *\nDisallow: /admin",
"paths": [
"/admin",
"/blog/"
]
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