CCBot Crawler Simulator
Test how Common Crawl's CCBot sees your website. Understand visibility in the open web archive powering many AI systems.
Test your site with CCBot
Enter your URL to see how CCBot views your website.
What is CCBot?
CCBot is the web crawler for Common Crawl, a nonprofit that maintains a free, open archive of web crawl data. Many AI companies, researchers, and organizations use Common Crawl data for training AI models, research, and analysis. Major AI models including GPT and Claude have used Common Crawl data.
Why Allow CCBot?
CCBot robots.txt Configuration
Control how CCBot accesses your website using robots.txt directives. Add these rules to your robots.txt file at the root of your domain.
Allow CCBot
# Allow Common Crawl User-agent: CCBot Allow: /
Block CCBot
# Block Common Crawl User-agent: CCBot Disallow: /
User-Agent String: CCBot/2.0 (+https://commoncrawl.org/faq/)
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