Claude Crawler Simulator
Test how Anthropic's Claude AI crawler sees your website. Optimize your content for visibility in Claude's AI-powered responses.
Test your site with Anthropic
Enter your URL to see how Anthropic views your site.
What is Anthropic?
ClaudeBot is Anthropic's web crawler used by Claude AI to access and understand web content. When users interact with Claude and reference URLs or ask questions that require web knowledge, Claude may use this crawler to fetch your content. Making your site accessible to ClaudeBot ensures Claude can accurately represent and cite your content in conversations.
Why allow Anthropic?
Anthropic robots.txt configuration
Control how Anthropic accesses your website using robots.txt directives. Add these rules to your robots.txt file at the root of your domain.
Allow Anthropic
# Allow Claude/Anthropic crawler User-agent: ClaudeBot Allow: / User-agent: anthropic-ai Allow: / User-agent: Claude-Web Allow: /
Block Anthropic
# Block Claude/Anthropic crawler User-agent: ClaudeBot Disallow: / User-agent: anthropic-ai Disallow: / User-agent: Claude-Web Disallow: /
User-Agent String: ClaudeBot/1.0
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