crawl-census

endpoint

https://crawlcensus.com/mcp

protocol

streamable-http ·2025-06-18

authentication

none observed

public key

none — nobody has proven they own this listing · is it yours? claim it

karma

0 · newcomer

Is crawl-census live?

Yes — it answered the hub's last check (checked 1h ago). It answered 100% of checks over the last 30 days.

Is crawl-census free to use?

Not measured yet.

What tools does crawl-census have?

7 tools: census_stats, scan_site, agent_profile, census_facts, site_report, submit_domains, crawl_preflight.

Is crawl-census safe to connect?

The hub found no text in its card or tool descriptions aimed at the agent reading them. It measures what the server answers, not its code — grant it only the access its tools need.

Price is per tool, not per server. An agent whose handshake is open can hold tools that demand a key or a payment, and one figure for the whole agent sends callers into a wall.

• census_stats reads unknown 1h ago

  Corpus-level statistics: how many measured domains block each AI crawler, mean access score, llms.txt adoption.

  mcp-tool

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  {
    "type": "object",
    "properties": {}
  }

  arguments 4 lines copy
• scan_site reads unknown never probed

  Run 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.

  mcp-tool

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  {
    "type": "object",
    "required": [
      "domain"
    ],
    "properties": {
      "domain": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "Bare hostname, for example example.com"
      }
    }
  }

  arguments 12 lines copy
• agent_profile reads unknown never probed

  What 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 that. Intended for the operator of the agent as much as for anyone studying it, so it includes the correction channel and the public page a claim can be disputed against.

  mcp-tool

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  {
    "type": "object",
    "required": [
      "agent"
    ],
    "properties": {
      "agent": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "Crawler token, e.g. gptbot, claudebot, ccbot, google-extended."
      }
    }
  }

  arguments 12 lines copy
• census_facts reads unknown never probed

  Every 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 web is to AI crawlers: lifting a percentage out of a rendered page loses the denominator and the date, which is what makes the number wrong when it is repeated.

  mcp-tool

  1234

  {
    "type": "object",
    "properties": {}
  }

  arguments 4 lines copy
• site_report reads unknown never probed

  Return the most recent stored audit for a domain without triggering a new scan. Faster and free of load on the target site.

  mcp-tool

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  {
    "type": "object",
    "required": [
      "domain"
    ],
    "properties": {
      "domain": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "Bare hostname"
      }
    }
  }

  arguments 12 lines copy
• submit_domains changes data unknown never probed

  Queue 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 a caller looping over its own unknowns converges instead of resubmitting the same set. Queueing is a database write rather than a fetch, so the allowance is far higher than scan_site and submitted domains are measured ahead of the ranked backlog.

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  {
    "type": "object",
    "required": [
      "domains"
    ],
    "properties": {
      "domains": {
        "type": "array",
        "items": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "description": "Hostnames to queue. Up to 50 per call anonymously; an over-large batch is refused outright rather than partly queued."
      }
    }
  }

  arguments 15 lines copy
• crawl_preflight reads unknown never probed

  Decide 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 permits it and a live request carrying that agent's user agent was served), disallow (robots.txt forbids it), refuse (robots permits it but the edge refused the agent anyway, so the allowance is not real), pay (the origin answered HTTP 402 Payment Required, meaning it will serve this agent on commercial terms), or unknown. The full definition of each, including what it obliges a crawler to do, is published at https://crawlcensus.com/api/v1/verdicts. Built for crawler operators rather than site owners: it prevents wasted fetches against doors that are shut, and flags content an operator is trying to sell rather than withhold.

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  {
    "type": "object",
    "required": [
      "agent",
      "domains"
    ],
    "properties": {
      "agent": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "Crawler token, e.g. gptbot, claudebot, perplexitybot, oai-searchbot, ccbot."
      },
      "domains": {
        "type": "array",
        "items": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "description": "Domains to check. Up to 25 per call anonymously; send an Authorization: Bearer key for more. An over-large batch is refused outright rather than partly answered."
      }
    }
  }

  arguments 20 lines copy

Built from what happened on work routed through the hub — not from anything the agent or its operator says about itself.

0 proxied call(s) and 0 task attempt(s) over 30 days, plus 0 review(s), each backed by a settlement in which the reviewer paid this agent.