@braedenbuilds/crawl-sim 1.4.0 → 1.4.1

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  1. package/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json +1 -1
  2. package/.claude-plugin/plugin.json +1 -1
  3. package/README.md +110 -78
  4. package/bin/install.js +10 -1
  5. package/package.json +1 -1
  6. package/skills/crawl-sim/SKILL.md +6 -0
  7. package/skills/crawl-sim/scripts/check-robots.sh +6 -4
  8. package/skills/crawl-sim/scripts/fetch-as-bot.sh +3 -3
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  "name": "crawl-sim",
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  "source": "./",
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  "description": "Multi-bot web crawler simulator — audit how Googlebot, GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot see your site",
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- "version": "1.4.0"
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  "name": "crawl-sim",
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  "description": "Multi-bot web crawler simulator — audit how Googlebot, GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot see your site",
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  "author": {
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  "name": "BraedenBDev",
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  # crawl-sim
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- **See your site through the eyes of Googlebot, GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot.**
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+ **Your site ranks #1 on Google but doesn't exist in ChatGPT search results. Here's why.**
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  [![License: MIT](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-MIT-yellow.svg)](./LICENSE)
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  [![npm version](https://img.shields.io/npm/v/@braedenbuilds/crawl-sim.svg)](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@braedenbuilds/crawl-sim)
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  [![Built for Claude Code](https://img.shields.io/badge/built%20for-Claude%20Code-D97757.svg)](https://claude.com/claude-code)
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  [![PRs Welcome](https://img.shields.io/badge/PRs-welcome-brightgreen.svg)](./CONTRIBUTING.md)
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- `crawl-sim` is the first open-source, **agent-native multi-bot web crawler simulator**. It audits a URL from the perspective of each major crawler — Google's search bot, OpenAI's GPTBot, Anthropic's ClaudeBot, Perplexity's crawler, and more — then produces a quantified score card, prioritized findings, and structured JSON output.
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+ The web now has two audiences: browsers and bots. Google renders your JavaScript and sees everything. GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot don't — they read your server HTML and move on. If your content lives behind client-side hydration, AI search engines cite your competitors instead of you. Meanwhile, Cloudflare has been blocking AI training crawlers by default on 20% of the web since July 2025, and ChatGPT-User and Perplexity-User ignore robots.txt entirely for user-initiated fetches — so your carefully crafted blocking rules may not be doing what you think. The gap between what Google sees and what AI sees is the new SEO blind spot, and most tools don't even know it exists.
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- It ships as a [Claude Code skill](https://docs.claude.com/en/docs/claude-code/skills) backed by standalone shell scripts, so the intelligence lives in the agent and the plumbing stays debuggable.
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+ `crawl-sim` was built from a real bug: an `ssr: false` flag on a dynamic import was silently hiding article cards from every AI crawler on a production site. Screaming Frog didn't catch it — it's built around Googlebot's headless Chrome. The fix took two minutes once we could see the problem. The problem took weeks to find because nothing was looking.
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+ This is for web developers checking their own sites, agencies auditing clients who need quantified proof of the visibility gap, and SEO teams adding GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) to their toolkit. Before crawl-sim, you'd curl as GPTBot and eyeball the HTML. Now you get a scored, regression-tested audit across nine bot profiles that tells you exactly what each crawler sees, what it misses, whether your robots.txt blocks actually work, and what to fix first.
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+ It ships as a [Claude Code plugin](https://docs.claude.com/en/docs/claude-code/plugins) backed by standalone shell scripts — the intelligence lives in the agent, the plumbing stays debuggable.
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- ## Why this exists
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+ ## Why a plugin instead of prompting Claude directly?
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- The crawler-simulation market has a gap. Most tools pick one lane:
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+ Claude Code has Bash, curl, and jq. It *could* write all of this from scratch every time you ask. But that's the wrong comparison. Here's what actually happens:
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- | **Rendering tools** | Screaming Frog, TametheBot | Googlebot only — no AI crawlers |
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- | **Monitoring SaaS** | Otterly, ZipTie, Peec | Track citations but don't simulate crawls |
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- | **Frameworks** | Crawlee, Playwright | Raw building blocks with no bot intelligence |
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+ | | Without crawl-sim | With crawl-sim |
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+ | **User prompt** | ~500 tokens explaining what you want | `/crawl-sim https://site.com` — 20 tokens |
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+ | **Bot UA strings** | Claude guesses or hallucinates them | 9 verified profiles with researched data |
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+ | **Scoring logic** | Claude invents it mid-conversation (~3,000 tokens) | `compute-score.sh` runs in bash — 0 tokens |
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+ | **Edge case handling** | Claude debugs live (~2,000 tokens) | 70 regression tests already caught those bugs |
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+ | **robots.txt analysis** | Generic "blocked/not blocked" | Enforceability context — is the block actually enforceable? |
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+ | **Total output tokens** | ~10,000+ per audit | ~2,500 per audit |
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- No existing tool combines **multi-bot simulation + LLM-powered interpretation + quantified scoring** in an agent-native format. `crawl-sim` does.
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+ The scripts do the heavy lifting in bash, not in your context window. Scoring, extraction, field validation, parity computation — all zero tokens. Claude only spends tokens on interpretation.
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- The concept was validated manually: a curl-as-GPTBot + Claude analysis caught a real SSR bug (`ssr: false` on a dynamic import) that was silently hiding article cards from AI crawlers on a production site.
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+ **What this means in practice:**
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+ - **Consistent.** Same rubric every run, not dependent on how Claude feels today. Page-type-aware schema scoring, cross-bot parity, critical-fail criteria — all tested.
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+ - **Accurate.** Bot profiles include Cloudflare tier classification, robots.txt enforceability, and documented bypass behavior. You'd have to research this yourself otherwise.
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+ - **Fast.** One command replaces 30 minutes of ad-hoc scripting and guesswork.
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+ - **Debuggable.** Every script is standalone, outputs JSON, and can be run independently. When something looks wrong, you inspect the intermediate files — not a wall of LLM output.
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  ### As a Claude Code plugin (recommended)
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  Claude runs the full pipeline, interprets the results, and returns a score card plus prioritized findings.
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+ > **Verified:** Plugin installs from GitHub via the marketplace route, discovers the skill at `skills/crawl-sim/SKILL.md`, and all 15 scripts + 9 profiles are executable from the plugin cache path.
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  - **Multi-bot simulation.** Nine verified bot profiles covering Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Perplexity — including the bot-vs-user-agent distinction (e.g., `ChatGPT-User` officially ignores robots.txt; `claude-user` respects it).
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  - **Quantified scoring.** Each bot is graded 0–100 across five categories with letter grades A through F, plus a weighted composite score.
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- - **Page-type-aware rubric.** The structured-data category derives the page type from the URL (`root` / `detail` / `archive` / `faq` / `about` / `contact` / `generic`) and applies a per-type schema rubric. A homepage shipping `Organization` + `WebSite` scores 100 without being penalized for not having `BreadcrumbList` or `FAQPage`. Override the detection with `--page-type <type>` when the URL heuristic picks wrong.
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- - **Self-explaining scores.** Every `structuredData` block in the JSON report ships `pageType`, `expected`, `optional`, `forbidden`, `present`, `missing`, `extras`, `violations`, `calculation`, and `notes` — so the narrative layer reads the scorer's reasoning directly instead of guessing what was penalized.
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+ - **Page-type-aware rubric.** The structured-data category derives the page type from the URL (`root` / `detail` / `archive` / `faq` / `about` / `contact` / `generic`) and applies a per-type schema rubric. A homepage shipping `Organization` + `WebSite` scores 100 without being penalized for missing `BreadcrumbList` or `FAQPage`. Override the detection with `--page-type <type>` when the URL heuristic picks wrong.
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+ - **Self-explaining scores.** Every `structuredData` block ships `pageType`, `expected`, `present`, `missing`, `violations` (with `confidence` levels), `calculation`, and `notes` — so the narrative reads the scorer's reasoning directly instead of guessing.
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+ - **Schema field validation.** Checks that present schemas include required fields per schema.org type (e.g., Organization must have `name` + `url`). Missing required fields produce `missing_required_field` violations.
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+ - **Cross-bot parity scoring.** Measures word-count divergence across bots. Perfect parity = 100/A. Severe CSR mismatch (Googlebot sees 10x more than GPTBot) = F with interpretation.
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+ - **robots.txt enforceability.** Each bot profile carries `robotsTxtEnforceability` (`enforced`, `advisory_only`, `stealth_risk`) based on documented compliance. When robots.txt blocks a bot that ignores it, the narrative flags the block as unenforceable.
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+ - **Cloudflare-aware.** Bot profiles include `cloudflareCategory` (`ai_crawler`, `ai_search`, `ai_assistant`) matching Cloudflare's three-tier classification. Since July 2025, Cloudflare blocks AI training crawlers by default on ~20% of the web.
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+ - **PDF reports.** Generate styled HTML audit reports and convert to PDF via Chrome or Playwright. Pass `--pdf` for a one-command PDF to Desktop.
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+ - **Comparative audits.** `--compare <url2>` runs two full audits and produces a side-by-side VS report with category deltas, per-bot comparison, and winner determination. Combine with `--pdf` for a comparison PDF.
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+ - **Consolidated report.** `build-report.sh` merges score data with raw per-bot extraction data into a single `crawl-sim-report.json`. The narrative reads one file instead of 8+.
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+ The skill auto-detects page type from the URL. Pass `--page-type root|detail|archive|faq|about|contact|generic` when the URL heuristic picks the wrong type (e.g., a homepage at `/en/` that parses as `generic`).
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+ │ │ ├── extract-jsonld.sh # JSON-LD types + per-block field names
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+ │ │ ├── extract-links.sh # internal/external link classification (flat schema)
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+ │ │ ├── check-robots.sh # robots.txt parsing per UA token
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+ │ │ ├── check-llmstxt.sh # llms.txt + llms-full.txt presence and structure
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+ │ │ ├── check-sitemap.sh # sitemap.xml URL inclusion + sample URLs
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+ │ │ ├── diff-render.sh # optional Playwright server-vs-rendered comparison
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+ │ │ ├── compute-score.sh # aggregates all checks → per-bot + per-category scores
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+ │ │ ├── schema-fields.sh # required field definitions per schema.org type
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+ │ │ ├── build-report.sh # consolidate score + raw data into single report
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+ │ │ ├── generate-report-html.sh # styled HTML audit report
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+ │ │ ├── generate-compare-html.sh # side-by-side comparison report
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+ │ │ └── html-to-pdf.sh # Chrome → Playwright PDF renderer
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+ │ └── templates/ # HTML templates for report generation
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+ │ └── fixtures/ # synthetic RUN_DIR fixtures for regression tests
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+ └── docs/
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+ ├── output-schemas.md # JSON contract for every script's stdout
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  The shell scripts are the plumbing. The Claude Code skill is the intelligence — it reads the raw JSON, understands framework context (Next.js, Nuxt, SPAs), identifies root causes, and writes actionable recommendations.
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+ - **Keep the core dependency-free** — `curl` + `jq` only. `diff-render.sh` and `html-to-pdf.sh` are the optional-dependency exceptions.
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  ## Acknowledgments
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  - **Bot documentation** from [OpenAI](https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/bots), [Anthropic](https://privacy.claude.com), [Perplexity](https://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/resources/perplexity-crawlers), and [Google Search Central](https://developers.google.com/search/docs).
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- - **Prior art** in the space: [Dark Visitors](https://darkvisitors.com), [CrawlerCheck](https://crawlercheck.com), [Cloudflare Radar](https://radar.cloudflare.com).
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+ - **Cloudflare bot classification** from [Cloudflare Radar](https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots) and [Cloudflare Docs](https://developers.cloudflare.com/bots/concepts/bot/).
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+ - **Prior art** in the space: [Dark Visitors](https://darkvisitors.com), [CrawlerCheck](https://crawlercheck.com).
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