# Robots.txt & Sitemap Discovery API (`213x/robots-sitemap-discovery`) Actor

Discover robots.txt rules, sitemap URLs, crawl delays, and basic crawlability signals for domains or website URLs.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/213x/robots-sitemap-discovery.md
- **Developed by:** [ys](https://apify.com/213x) (community)
- **Categories:** SEO tools, Developer tools, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $2.00 / 1,000 inspected domains

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

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- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
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- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## Robots.txt & Sitemap Discovery API

Discover robots.txt crawl rules and sitemap URLs for any domain.

This Actor checks each supplied domain or URL, fetches `/robots.txt`, extracts sitemap declarations, evaluates basic crawl policy for a selected user agent, and returns clean JSON/CSV-ready records.

### Use cases

- Technical SEO preflight checks
- Find sitemap URLs before running crawlers
- Validate robots.txt availability and crawl-delay directives
- Build automated domain audit workflows
- Collect crawl policy data for many websites

### Input

```json
{
  "startUrls": ["https://example.com", "apify.com"],
  "userAgent": "*",
  "includeRobotsText": false
}
```

### Output

```json
{
  "input": "https://example.com",
  "origin": "https://example.com",
  "robotsUrl": "https://example.com/robots.txt",
  "statusCode": 200,
  "hasRobots": true,
  "sitemaps": ["https://example.com/sitemap.xml"],
  "crawlDelay": null,
  "disallowRules": ["/admin"],
  "allowRules": ["/"],
  "issues": []
}
```

### Output fields

- `input` - original user input.
- `origin` - normalized website origin.
- `robotsUrl` - robots.txt URL checked.
- `statusCode` - robots.txt HTTP response code.
- `hasRobots` - whether a robots.txt file was found.
- `sitemaps` - sitemap URLs declared in robots.txt.
- `crawlDelay` - matched crawl-delay directive for the selected user agent.
- `allowRules` / `disallowRules` - matched rules for the selected user agent.
- `issues` - labels such as `robots_not_found` or `no_sitemaps_declared`.

### SEO keywords

robots.txt API, sitemap discovery, robots parser, technical SEO API, crawlability checker, sitemap finder, SEO preflight, crawl rules checker.

# Actor input Schema

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

Domains or URLs to inspect.

## `userAgent` (type: `string`):

User-agent section to evaluate.

## `includeRobotsText` (type: `boolean`):

Include raw robots.txt content in output.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://apify.com"
  ],
  "userAgent": "*",
  "includeRobotsText": false
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "startUrls": [
        "https://apify.com"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("213x/robots-sitemap-discovery").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "startUrls": ["https://apify.com"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("213x/robots-sitemap-discovery").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://apify.com"
  ]
}' |
apify call 213x/robots-sitemap-discovery --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=213x/robots-sitemap-discovery",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/COPcCzPWlTyyTIKx9/builds/9zFUJaN7LViXSMqYI/openapi.json