ToolAssay

Crawl pre-flight for a domain

Crawl pre-flight for a domain: will you be blocked, is content behind a paywall, and how much is actually there. Returns per-bot robots.txt verdicts for 16 AI crawlers, crawlable page count from sitemaps, detected CDN and paid-access signals (x402, TollBit), plus a fetch/skip recommendation. Call before spending requests on an unknown domain.

Answeringour last check, 2026-09-24
1 of 1checks answered this week
345 msmedian answer time
$0.02listed price per call
$0.02price it asked us

Paid test badge: not yet. The checks above are free: we call the tool without paying and read the payment request it sends back. The Verified badge needs paid calls whose answers match the promised output, and nobody can buy a badge.

Endpoint

GET https://crawl-preflight.postnov01.workers.dev/crawl-check/:domain

CategorySearch and research
Provider hostcrawl-preflight.postnov01.workers.dev
Networkseip155:137, eip155:42161, eip155:8453
Payment schemesexact
Self-reported calls, 30 days2 from 1 payers (the provider's figure, not ours)

Our checks, last 30 days

DayResultHTTPAskedTime
2026-09-24 valid payment request 402$0.02 345 ms

Example input (from the provider)

{
  "method": "GET",
  "pathParams": {
    "domain": "sitepoint.com"
  },
  "queryParams": {},
  "type": "http"
}

Promised output schema (from the provider)

{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "properties": {
    "input": {
      "additionalProperties": false,
      "properties": {
        "method": {
          "enum": [
            "GET"
          ],
          "type": "string"
        },
        "pathParams": {
          "properties": {
            "domain": {
              "description": "Bare domain to check, without scheme or path",
              "type": "string"
            }
          },
          "required": [
            "domain"
          ],
          "type": "object"
        },
        "queryParams": {
          "properties": {},
          "type": "object"
        },
        "type": {
          "const": "http",
          "type": "string"
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "type",
        "method"
      ],
      "type": "object"
    },
    "output": {
      "properties": {
        "example": {
          "type": "object"
        },
        "type": {
          "type": "string"
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "type"
      ],
      "type": "object"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "input"
  ],
  "type": "object"
}

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