AI Crawler Access Checker Weekly Monitor (Apify + Slack) for n8n

Know immediately when AI crawlers gain or lose access—every Monday

This AI Crawler Access Checker Weekly Monitor (Apify + Slack) for n8n automatically checks whether AI crawlers can access your monitored websites using Apify, and sends a single Slack alert only when access rules or crawl signals change.

What this workflow does

• Runs weekly: Scheduled to execute every Monday morning.
• Monitors a defined list of websites: You configure the domains/URLs and a monitor name for week-to-week comparisons.
• Checks robots and AI-related signals: Calls the Apify actor tidytools/ai-crawler-access-checker to evaluate each site’s robots.txt, llms.txt, and relevant page signals.
• Detects only changes: Filters results so Slack is alerted only for sites that are new to the monitoring list or where the crawler access status changed.
• Sends one consolidated message: Builds a single Slack post summarizing what changed per site (for example, allowed/blocked bots, policy shifts, or llms.txt/noai signal changes).
• Posts to Slack: Sends the alert to your selected Slack channel.

Use cases

• SEO and AI indexing monitoring: Track when your site’s crawler access rules change so your team can respond.
• SaaS compliance / policy oversight: Monitor policy-driven changes to robots.txt and llms.txt.
• Operational risk reduction: Detect unexpected restrictions that could affect AI crawling and downstream visibility.

Technical details

• n8n workflow with nodes including: if, set, code, slack, and supporting nodes like sticky note and apifyn8n-nodes-apify.
• Apify integration: Uses your Apify credential (API token or OAuth) to run tidytools/ai-crawler-access-checker.
• Slack integration: Sends alerts to a configured channel (e.g., #seo-alerts).

Get change-only visibility into AI crawler access—without noisy weekly spam.