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Free AI Crawler Inspector

Inspect readable page content and robots.txt permissions for ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity agents. Copy or download text and Markdown.

Why inspect your page’s readable content?

A page can look complete in your browser while its server response contains very little readable text. Use this preview to check whether your product description, article, or key answers are present in the HTML before reviewing crawler access.

  • Check your main message

    Compare the extracted text with the page you intended to publish. Look for your main heading, a clear description of the topic, and the details a reader needs to understand it.

  • Review page metadata

    Confirm the title, meta description, and canonical declaration describe the right page. A readable preview and accurate metadata answer different questions; review both.

  • Keep a copy for comparison

    Download the Markdown or plain text before updating your page. Compare it with a later inspection to see which information appears in the server response. Reports may be cached for up to one hour.

What to review when page content is missing

Start with the HTML your server returns. This simulation does not run JavaScript or evaluate external stylesheets, and it focuses on a visible main element when one exists.

  • Content loaded with JavaScript

    Check whether important copy appears in the initial page source or arrives only after a script runs. If you want it available without JavaScript, use your framework’s server rendering or static generation for that content.

  • Content outside the main element

    Check whether the main element contains the actual page content. Navigation, footers, forms, scripts, and hidden elements are excluded from this preview, so compare the result with the page’s HTML structure.

  • Login walls or server restrictions

    Check whether the page loads publicly and whether automated requests receive a challenge, an error, or different HTML. The inspector requests the page as HyperGSCBot; other visitors and crawlers may receive different responses.

How to interpret AI crawler permissions

The inspector evaluates robots.txt for the final page URL after redirects. Permission describes the rule found for that URL; it does not confirm a crawler visit or an AI citation.

  • Review each agent separately

    OAI-SearchBot and GPTBot are separate agents, and Google-Extended is an AI-use control. Search access and training policies can differ. Decide which uses you intend to permit before changing any rules.

  • Resolve unknown responses first

    An unknown status means this check could not establish permission. Inspect the robots.txt response, redirects, or server errors before treating it as allowed or blocked.

Example: from page HTML to readable Markdown

This fictional page puts its core message in the main element. The extraction keeps that message and removes the navigation. The page title is reported separately as metadata. This is an illustration, not a live scan.

Page HTML
<title>Acme Projects</title>
<nav>Home · Pricing · Contact</nav>
<main>
  <h1>Project management for small teams</h1>
  <p>Plan projects and track deadlines in one place.</p>
</main>
Extracted Markdown
# Project management for small teams

Plan projects and track deadlines in one place.

If the paragraph is added only after JavaScript runs, it will be absent from this preview. Check the server-returned HTML to understand what is missing before changing your content.

How to inspect your page’s readable content

Preview the content a simple crawler can extract from your server-returned HTML.

  1. Enter a public HTML page URL and click Inspect page.

  2. Review the readable content, metadata, headings, links, and robots.txt permissions.

  3. Copy or download the text or Markdown, then review important content missing from the preview.

If important content or metadata needs review, use the AI SEO checker to inspect page signals and optional agent discovery files.

To compare Google and Bing access with AI-use permissions, use the Robots.txt tester for the same page.

If your site publishes guidance for agents, use the llms.txt checker to review the file’s headings and links.

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