Robots.txt Generator & Tester

Create compliant robots.txt rules visually and verify crawl allowances with the live path tester.

Define Robots Rules

Add Custom Directive

Current Custom Rules (2)

*Disallow/private/
*Disallow/api/

Generated robots.txt

# Generated by DevUtils Lab (https://www.devutilslab.dev)

User-agent: *
Disallow: /private/
Disallow: /api/

Sitemap: https://www.devutilslab.dev/sitemap.xml

Live Path Tester

Understanding Robots.txt

A robots.txt file tells search engine crawlers which URLs the crawler can access on your site. This is used mainly to avoid overloading your site with requests; it is not a mechanism for keeping a web page off Google. To keep a web page off Google, use noindex directives instead.

How to use

  • 1Select default crawler access (Allow All / Disallow All).
  • 2Add custom directives for specific user-agents (e.g. Googlebot, Bingbot) and paths.
  • 3Use the Live Path Tester to input an agent and route path to verify the crawl resolution.
  • 4Copy the generated robots.txt output and upload it to your web server's root folder.

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