AI2Bot Simulator & Tester
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Simulate an AI2Bot visit to any URL on your website. Crawl the page and inspect the HTML the Allen Institute collects for AI research.
Simulate a AI2Bot visit
Enter any URL on your website to crawl it as AI2Bot and inspect the HTML it gets.
How to use the AI2Bot simulator
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Step 1
Enter a URL
Paste the full URL of any page on your website, such as a product page, a blog post, or the home page.
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Step 2
Select the AI2Bot user agent
The tester sends the request with the AI2Bot user-agent string, so your server answers the way it answers a real AI2Bot visit.
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Step 3
Run the crawl
The simulator requests the page as AI2Bot and follows redirects, the same way the crawler does.
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Step 4
Inspect the HTML
Check the status code, redirects, response headers, raw HTML, word count, and Open Graph tags AI2Bot gets. If your main content is missing from the HTML, AI2Bot cannot read it.
What is AI2Bot?
AI2Bot is the web crawler operated by the Allen Institute for AI (AI2), a nonprofit AI research institute. AI2 creates datasets and models used throughout the AI research community, including popular resources like Semantic Scholar. Their crawler collects data for research corpora and academic AI development.
Why allow AI2Bot?
AI2Bot robots.txt configuration
Control how AI2Bot crawls your website using robots.txt directives. Add these rules to your robots.txt file at the root of your domain, then run the simulator again on the same URL to confirm the change.
Allow AI2Bot
# Allow AI2Bot (Allen Institute) User-agent: AI2Bot Allow: /
Block AI2Bot
# Block AI2Bot User-agent: AI2Bot Disallow: /
User-Agent String: AI2Bot/1.0 (+http://www.allenai.org)
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