Bot Crawl Checker

Seo REST API MCP network tool

Return which of 24 well-known crawlers (Googlebot, BingBot, GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, AhrefsBot, Twitterbot and more) are allowed or blocked for a URL by the site's robots.txt, with the matching rule and user-agent group per bot.

This page documents the MCP tool findutils:bot_crawl_checker. See the REST reference →

This tool fetches a fixed, hard-coded public upstream — never a private host. Results depend on that upstream.

Call it over MCP

Tool name findutils:bot_crawl_checker · no API keys · 120 requests/min per IP

Claude Code

claude mcp add findutils --transport http https://mcp.findutils.com/

Claude Desktop — claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "findutils": {
      "url": "https://mcp.findutils.com/"
    }
  }
}

Raw JSON-RPC (any MCP client) — verified example

curl -X POST https://mcp.findutils.com/ \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "id": 1,
    "method": "tools/call",
    "params": {
      "name": "bot_crawl_checker",
      "arguments": {
        "url": "https://findutils.com/"
      }
    }
  }'

Input schema

Argument Type Required Description
url string yes Public http(s) URL to check, e.g. "https://example.com/blog/post".

Example arguments (verified)

{
  "url": "https://findutils.com/"
}

Also a REST endpoint

The same tool answers plain HTTP at POST /api/tools/bot-crawl-checker/execute — no key, 60 requests/min.

Open the REST reference for Bot Crawl Checker →

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