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title: "Daily AI-crawler reachability probe result — a DIAGNOSTIC, not a traffic metric: whether the site's edge (e.g. Cloudflare Bot Fight Mode) or robots.txt blocks GPTBot/ClaudeBot. 'shielded' means browsers and bots are both challenged (site-wide shield, ambiguous for real, signed crawlers)."
method: GET
path: "/api/v1/crawler-access"
---

# Daily AI-crawler reachability probe result — a DIAGNOSTIC, not a traffic metric: whether the site's edge (e.g. Cloudflare Bot Fight Mode) or robots.txt blocks GPTBot/ClaudeBot. 'shielded' means browsers and bots are both challenged (site-wide shield, ambiguous for real, signed crawlers).

`GET /api/v1/crawler-access`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.rctrl.com`
- URL: `https://api.rctrl.com/api/v1/crawler-access`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

Requires the `read:analytics` scope.

## Response `200`

Success; the payload is wrapped in a data envelope

- object
  - `data` unknown

## Other responses

- `400`: Bad input
- `401`: Missing or invalid API key
- `403`: API key lacks the required scope
- `404`: Not found in this workspace
- `429`: Rate limited; the body includes a retryAfterMs hint

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[API](https://skmtc.dev/rctrl/apis/rankcontrol-api.md) · [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/rctrl/apis/rankcontrol-api/llms.txt) · [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/rctrl/apis/rankcontrol-api/revisions/98ecd236394a?raw)