# Is your site visible to AI search? Check it with one API call

> Source: <https://dev.to/grenzfrei/is-your-site-visible-to-ai-search-check-it-with-one-api-call-13fi>
> Published: 2026-06-15 13:00:02+00:00

AI assistants — ChatGPT Search, Perplexity, Google's AI Overviews — increasingly answer questions by *citing* web pages instead of sending a click. Whether your site can be crawled, parsed, and quoted by them comes down to a handful of signals most SEO tools never check:

`robots.txt`

rules actually let AI crawlers in (GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot)? A surprising number of sites block them by accident.`llms.txt`

pointing models at your key content?I built a small audit engine that scores a URL 0–100 across exactly these dimensions and tells you what's failing. It's keyless to try:

```
curl -X POST https://citeready-api.sprytools.com/v1/audit \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"url":"https://example.com"}'
```

You get a per-category breakdown — AI crawler access, llms.txt, structured data, citability, technical — with a pass/warn/fail on each check and a concrete recommendation, e.g. *"No robots.txt found — you lose the Sitemap hint and explicit AI-bot policy."*

Prefer pasting a URL? There's a web version: [https://citeready.sprytools.com](https://citeready.sprytools.com) — free tier is 3 audits/day, no signup.

Curious what scores people get here — what's the most surprising thing it flags on your site?