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Robots.txt Tester

Test a path against basic Allow and Disallow rules in robots.txt.

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About this tool

What is Robots.txt Tester?

Inspect how a basic robots.txt configuration applies to a specific path and user agent. The tester looks for matching Allow and Disallow directives and reports whether the selected path is allowed based on the most specific matching rule.

How to use

Get your result in a few steps

  1. 1

    Paste your robots.txt content.

  2. 2

    Enter the path you want to test.

  3. 3

    Enter a user agent or use *.

  4. 4

    Run the tester to review the matching rule and result.

Frequently asked questions

Questions about Robots.txt Tester

Is this an official search engine robots.txt tester?

No. It is a browser-based utility for testing common Allow and Disallow behavior and should not be treated as an official crawler implementation.

Does it fetch my live robots.txt file?

No. It tests the robots.txt text that you paste into the tool.

Why might a real crawler behave differently?

Individual crawlers can implement additional parsing details, wildcard behavior, caching, and crawler-specific rules.

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