robots.txt Testing & Validation Tool
[Jump to tool]Checks a list of URLs against the live, or a custom, robots.txt file one to see if they are allowed, or blocked and if so, by what rule.
If you want to test changes before you publish your robots.txt file, untick the Use Live robots.txt? tick box and try changes to your robots.txt.
Uses the Google Robots.txt Parser and Matcher Library, which matches the one used in production at Google.
Parsing and matching is one part of the picture, sometimes a search engine or other service might choose to fall back or ignore certain rules, like Googlebot-Image falling back to Googlebot rules if no specific User-agent rule is found. This tool attempts to mimic the behaviour here for Google and Applebot.
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Using: Live robots.txt | User-agent: Googlebot
One per line, should start with http / https
Settings
(will overwrite any custom rules)
Custom robots.txt will apply to all URLs, regardless of origin example:
| URL | Live robots.txt | Custom robots.txt |
|---|---|---|
| https://example.com/test | https://example.com/robots.txt | the custom robots.txt |
| https://www.differentexample.com/some/test/product.html | https://differentexample.com/robots.txt | the custom robots.txt |
Brought to you in conjunction with Jamie Indigo ( @Jammer_Volts ), of Not a Robot
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