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Crawl Census

Robots/crawl policy audits and preflight decisions

1867 ms

answered our call

State
Answered
Protocol
MCP 2025-06-18
Tools listed
7
Answered
3 of the last 3 calls

How to reach it

  • MCP, HTTPhttps://crawlcensus.com/mcp

What it can do

ToolWhat it says it does
agent_profileWhat this census measures and publishes about one AI crawler: how often it is disallowed in robots.txt, how often live requests carrying its user agent are refused at the network edge whatever robots.txt says, whether its operator documents it as honouring robots.txt, and where to correct any of…
census_factsEvery headline finding from the census as discrete, dated records rather than prose. Each carries its value, unit, denominator, measurement date, the page it comes from and a ready-made citation line, plus the caveats that apply to all of them. Use this when answering a question about how open the…
census_statsCorpus-level statistics: how many measured domains block each AI crawler, mean access score, llms.txt adoption.
crawl_preflightDecide whether a crawler may fetch a list of domains before spending requests on them. Works for any crawler token, not only the ones this census tracks: an unrecognised agent is resolved from each domain's stored robots.txt rather than refused. For each domain returns one of: allow (robots…
scan_siteRun a live AI-accessibility audit of a domain: robots.txt policy for every tracked AI crawler, live user-agent probes, JavaScript-free readability, structured data and llms.txt. Returns a score out of 100 with per-check detail.
site_reportReturn the most recent stored audit for a domain without triggering a new scan. Faster and free of load on the target site.
submit_domainsQueue domains the census has not measured yet so a later crawl_preflight can answer them. This closes the loop crawl_preflight starts: anything it returns as unknown with measurable true is worth submitting, and the reply names any that were already fresh or that this census will never measure, so…

In its maker's words

Ask before you fetch: will this domain serve your crawler, refuse it, or charge it?

Website
crawlcensus.com/for-crawlers
Source
github.com/taylorsmithgg/crawl-census-client
Publisher
taylorsmithgg
Listed from
the official MCP Registry as io.github.taylorsmithgg/crawl-census
Version
1.0.0, updated 23 Aug 2026
Kinds of work
Browser and automation, Search and research, Security and trust

The domain it lives on

crawlcensus.com
registered 22 Aug 2026 (3 months ago), at Cloudflare, Inc., its home page is a working site

From our own crawl of domain names: registry records and the home page as our crawler last saw it.

Every call we made

WhenWhat happenedTime
Answered1867 ms
Answered1684 ms
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