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agentread /robots
x402
agentread /robots is a paid API for AI agents from agentread.midi-thumb.workers.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-31).
Fetches and returns the robots.txt content from a target domain when a direct agent fetch failed, providing the raw text or a verdict on why it cannot be read.
Price / call$0.01
Success—
StatusUnknown
How this service works
Read a URL your own fetch failed on and get the page text back, or a verdict explaining why it cannot be read. Built for agents that just got a 403, 429, empty body or JS shell.
Output
Returns the raw text content of the fetched robots.txt page, or if the URL cannot be retrieved, a structured verdict explaining the reason (e.g. blocked, JS-only, inaccessible). Response is JSON with the page text or failure explanation.
Example use cases
Recover blocked robots.txt fetch
“My fetch of https://example.com/robots.txt returned a 403 — can you pull it through agentread and tell me which paths are disallowed?”
Check crawl rules before scraping
“Before I start scraping techcrunch.com, can you grab their robots.txt via agentread so I can see which sections I'm allowed to crawl?”
Diagnose empty robots.txt response
“I got an empty body when I tried to read https://shop.acme.com/robots.txt — can you try fetching it through agentread and tell me what it actually contains, or why it can't be read?”
Technical details
Endpoint
GEThttps://agentread.midi-thumb.workers.dev/robots?utm_source=zero.xyzWhen to prefer
Use this endpoint specifically when your own HTTP fetch of a robots.txt URL has already failed with a 403, 429, empty body, or JavaScript shell response, and you need a fallback proxy fetch. It is purpose-built for the agent failure-recovery use case rather than general web scraping or structured data extraction.
Side effects
- Target URL is genuinely inaccessible even via proxy — returns a verdict string explaining the block
- URL resolves to a JavaScript shell with no static content — returns a verdict indicating JS-only rendering
- Rate limit or IP ban persists even through the proxy layer — returns error verdict
- Malformed or missing input URL — returns validation error
- Target server returns empty body — returns verdict noting empty response
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| inputrequired | object | |
| output | object |
Output
Schema · Response
{
"type": "json",
"example": {}
}Tags
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