Free browser-based tool

AI Crawler Robots.txt Generator

Create a modern robots.txt file that separates AI training crawlers from AI search bots and user-triggered fetchers. Nothing is uploaded to a server.

Policy settings

Balanced blocks common training crawlers while allowing AI search and user fetchers.

One path per line. These are added to every allowed bot group and the wildcard group.

Per-bot decisions

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Recommended first policy

      

        

          
Keep Googlebot open

          
Googlebot is still the core search crawler. Blocking it can remove pages from normal Google Search visibility.

        

        

          
Separate training from search

          
GPTBot and OAI-SearchBot have different purposes. Treating them separately lets you protect content while keeping AI-search discoverability.

        

        

          
Protect private paths elsewhere too

          
Robots.txt does not secure admin or customer pages. Use authentication and server access rules for anything private.

        

      

    

  
    
    

      

        
AI crawler access control

        
Practical notes for AI Crawler Robots.txt Generator

        
AI Crawler Robots.txt Generator is maintained for website owners, publishers, SaaS documentation teams, ecommerce operators, and SEO teams who need robots.txt publication. The goal is to help visitors complete a real task and leave with a robots.txt draft, llms.txt draft, crawler audit note, or crawler policy decision record, not only read a generic summary.

      

      


        

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Input review

          
Start with a real domain, a real sitemap URL, and a short list of sensitive paths. Do not paste private tokens, internal URLs, staging hostnames, or customer-only paths into a public policy file.

        

        

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Decision split

          
Separate training crawlers from AI search crawlers and user-triggered fetchers. This keeps the policy more precise than a single all-bot block and reduces accidental loss of search visibility.

        

        

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Publish check

          
After copying the result, test the file at /robots.txt, confirm the sitemap line is reachable, and record why each bot was allowed or blocked for future reviews.

        

      

      

        
Before relying on this page

        
    
          
  • Confirm the wildcard user-agent still allows normal public content.
  • Keep admin, account, checkout, and private paths protected with authentication, not only robots.txt.
  • Revisit the file when crawler documentation or content licensing decisions change.
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Field workflow

        
How to turn AI Crawler Robots.txt Generator into a maintainable crawler decision

        
A crawler policy is valuable only when someone can explain it later. Use the notes below to turn this page into a saved decision record instead of a one-time copied snippet.

      

      

        

          
1. Write the policy intent first

          
Before touching robots.txt, write one plain-language sentence: "We want normal search visibility, we want AI answer visibility for public pages, and we do not want training crawlers to collect licensed archives." If the intent is not clear, the file often becomes a long block list that nobody maintains. A short intent statement also helps you decide whether a future crawler belongs with training, search, user-triggered retrieval, or normal indexing.

        

        

          
2. Test representative URLs

          
Do not test only the homepage. Choose one article or documentation page, one product or pricing page, one sitemap URL, one login or account path, and one intentionally private path. The file should express different outcomes where the business logic is different. This matters because broad rules can accidentally block useful search pages while still failing to protect sensitive paths that need authentication.

        

        

          
3. Keep a change note

          
Save the date, the old rule, the new rule, and the reason for the change. If traffic drops, citations disappear, or a crawler starts hitting expensive paths, that note makes debugging much faster. A good note names the crawler role, the URL group affected, and the review owner who can change the policy later.

        

      

      

        
Operational checklist for this page

        
    
          
  • Confirm whether AI Crawler Robots.txt Generator is being used to create a new file, review an existing file, or document a content strategy decision.
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  • Compare the result with live crawler documentation, because user-agent names, crawler roles, and AI search behavior change over time.
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  • Keep Googlebot and other ordinary search crawlers separate from AI-specific crawler groups unless the site intentionally wants lower search visibility.
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  • Use authentication, server access rules, or a WAF for private content. Robots.txt is a public preference file, not a security boundary.
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  • After publishing, open the live URL and the canonical domain variant. CDN, redirect, and www/non-www differences are common sources of policy mistakes.
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This extra review layer is intentionally practical. It helps BotAccess Lab pages answer a real operational question, produce a durable artifact, and avoid the kind of thin, generic explanation that fails when a user has to make a production change.