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Cited Brief Robots.txt Check
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Cited Brief Robots.txt Check is a paid API for AI agents from cited-brief.cited-brief.workers.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-14).
Checks whether a given URL is allowed or disallowed by the target site's robots.txt for a specified crawler user agent
Price / call$0.01
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StatusUnknown
How this service works
Pay-per-call web research tools for AI agents, paid in USDC over x402.
Output
Returns a JSON object indicating whether the URL is allowed for the given user agent, the matched robots.txt rule and group, any crawl delay, the robots.txt URL, a list of sitemaps found, and the HTTP status code of the robots.txt response.
Example use cases
Pre-crawl compliance check for agent
“I'm about to scrape https://news-site.com/articles/2024-elections to gather research — can you check if robots.txt allows my crawler called CitedBot to access that URL?”
Sitemap discovery during web research
“Before my agent starts crawling https://shop.example.com/products, verify the robots.txt permissions for my bot called ShopScraper and also tell me what sitemaps are listed there.”
Debugging a blocked crawler
“My crawler MyBot is getting blocked somewhere on https://techblog.io/internal/drafts — can you check the robots.txt to see which rule is actually disallowing it?”
Technical details
Endpoint
POSThttps://cited-brief.cited-brief.workers.dev/robots-check?utm_source=zero.xyzWhen to prefer
Use this endpoint when an AI agent needs to verify crawl permissions before fetching a URL, especially in automated research or scraping workflows where robots.txt compliance is required. Prefer this over parsing robots.txt manually since it handles rule matching, user-agent grouping, and crawl-delay extraction automatically.
Side effects
- URL is not reachable or returns a non-200 status — robots.txt fetch may fail
- robots.txt does not exist on the target domain — allowed defaults may apply
- malformed URL input causes a validation error
- target site blocks the fetcher's IP, preventing robots.txt retrieval
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| url | string | Public http(s) URL you want to fetch |
| user_agent | string | Your crawler's name, for example MyBot (default: any crawler) |
Output
Schema · Response
{
"type": "json",
"example": {
"url": "https://example.com/private/report.html",
"allowed": false,
"sitemaps": [
"https://example.com/sitemap.xml"
],
"robots_url": "https://example.com/robots.txt",
"user_agent": "mybot",
"crawl_delay": null,
"matched_rule": "Disallow: /private/",
"matched_group": "*",
"robots_status": 200
}
}Tags
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