Grok Crawler Simulator & Tester
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Simulate a Grok crawler visit to any URL on your website. Crawl the page and inspect the HTML Grok gets, so it can use your content in answers.
Simulate a Grok visit
Enter any URL on your website to crawl it as Grok and inspect the HTML it gets.
How to use the Grok 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 Grok user agent
The tester sends the request with the Grok user-agent string, so your server answers the way it answers a real Grok visit.
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Step 3
Run the crawl
The simulator requests the page as Grok 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 Grok gets. If your main content is missing from the HTML, Grok cannot read it.
What is Grok?
Grok is xAI's AI assistant, integrated into X (formerly Twitter). Grok uses web crawlers to access content beyond X's platform, allowing it to answer questions with real-time web information. The Grok-Search and related crawlers fetch web content to provide comprehensive AI answers to X users.
Why allow Grok?
Grok robots.txt configuration
Control how Grok 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 Grok
# Allow Grok/xAI crawlers User-agent: Grok-Search Allow: / User-agent: xAI-Grok Allow: / User-agent: Grok-DeepSearch Allow: /
Block Grok
# Block Grok/xAI crawlers User-agent: Grok-Search Disallow: / User-agent: xAI-Grok Disallow: / User-agent: Grok-DeepSearch Disallow: /
User-Agent String: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; GrokBot/1.0; +https://x.ai/grokbot)
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