Build search-engine compliant robots.txt directives for Googlebot, Bingbot, and AI crawlers. Configure crawl-delay, disallow paths, XML sitemap locations, and verify URL access using the interactive path tester.
Runs entirely in your browser
A robots.txt file tells search engine and AI crawlers which parts of a site they may or may not crawl. This tool builds a valid robots.txt from your choices — allow and disallow rules per user-agent, crawl-delay, and the location of your XML sitemap — and lets you test whether a given path would be allowed with an interactive tester.
Getting robots.txt right matters both ways: too permissive and you waste crawl budget on pages you do not want indexed; too strict and you can accidentally block important content or your whole site. The path tester is the safeguard — you can confirm a URL’s access before you deploy the file.
It runs in your browser, so building and testing is instant. Use it to create a robots.txt for a new site, add rules for AI crawlers, or debug why a page is or is not being blocked.
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