Best uses
Basic crawler management, staging checks, site migrations, and generating a starting robots.txt file.
Create a robots.txt file for your website in seconds. Set crawler access and add your sitemap URL before copying the finished file.
A robots.txt file provides crawler instructions at the root of a website. It can tell compliant crawlers which URL paths they may or may not access. It does not replace authentication or security controls.
Review generated rules before publishing them. A restrictive rule can prevent crawlers from accessing pages you want discovered.
A robots.txt file tells compliant crawlers which URL paths they may or may not request. It is a crawling control mechanism, not a security boundary and not a guaranteed way to keep a URL out of search.
Choose the crawler rule and paths you need, generate the file, review every directive, then publish it at the site root as /robots.txt.
Basic crawler management, staging checks, site migrations, and generating a starting robots.txt file.
robots.txt controls crawler access; it is not a guarantee that a URL will be indexed or excluded from search results.
Do not use robots.txt to protect private information. Access control and authentication should be used for confidential resources.
For important work, keep your original input or source file and verify the generated result in its final destination.
It provides a focused browser workflow for robots.txt generator tasks without requiring a separate desktop application.
Yes. ToolCraft provides this browser-based tool free to use.
No. The normal workflow is designed to run directly in a modern web browser.
Yes. Review important output and test it in the destination editor, website, application or database before publishing or deploying it.
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Build a robots.txt file from common crawler directives. Always review the generated rules before deploying them because robots.txt controls crawler access, not guaranteed indexing.
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