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api.payload.cool

10/12 · 83% (scaled from 5 measurable areas)

Graded 2026-09-30 18:30 UTC in 0.3s · JSON · re-grade now

Top fixes

  1. Structured data (+1 point): add a JSON-LD block (Organization or WebSite, plus Product, FAQPage or Article where relevant) so answer engines describe you accurately. How to fix
  2. MCP census entry (+1 point): Publish /.well-known/x402 with your paid routes so payment indexers can list you. How to fix

Ordered by points recoverable. Each area: 2/2 pass, 1/2 warn, 0/2 fail.

Crawler access (robots.txt)

2/2 · pass

8 of 8 AI crawlers may read the site, 0 disallowed

  • GET /robots.txt -> HTTP 200, 70 B, 1 user-agent group
  • Allowed: GPTBot (via *), ClaudeBot (via *), OAI-SearchBot (via *), PerplexityBot (via *), Google-Extended (via *), Amazonbot (via *), CCBot (via *), Bytespider (via *)
  • Sitemap declared: https://api.payload.cool/sitemap.xml

Fix: Nothing to fix here.

Machine-readable surfaces

2/2 · pass

3 of 7 surfaces present (/sitemap.xml, /.well-known/mcp-registry-auth, /openapi.json)

  • /llms.txt: HTTP 404
  • /sitemap.xml: HTTP 200, XML sitemap (967 B)
  • /.well-known/x402: HTTP 404
  • /.well-known/agent-card.json: HTTP 404
  • /.well-known/mcp-registry-auth: HTTP 200, 66 B of text (MCPv1 record)
  • /openapi.json: HTTP 200, valid JSON (OpenAPI 3.1.0)
  • /ai.txt: HTTP 404

Fix: Publish /llms.txt (a short Markdown guide to your key pages).

Readable without JavaScript

2/2 · pass

Home page is readable

  • GET https://api.payload.cool/ -> HTTP 200, text/html, 30 KB
  • 5,390 characters of visible text with scripts, styles and tags removed; <title>: "Video Transcript API — any video URL to clean, LLM-ready text"
  • 0 external scripts, 1 inline; <noscript> absent
  • first words: "Video Transcript API PAYLOAD.COOL Difference Coverage Agents Pricing FAQ Get API key GET /v1/transcript Any video URL, returned as clean, us..."

Fix: Nothing to fix here.

Structured data

1/2 · warn

No JSON-LD, Open Graph complete

  • 0 JSON-LD blocks
  • Open Graph: og:title "Video Transcript API — any video URL to clean, LLM-ready text"; og:description present
  • meta description: present

Fix: add a JSON-LD block (Organization or WebSite, plus Product, FAQPage or Article where relevant) so answer engines describe you accurately.

MCP census entry (index.agentexchange.work)

1/2 · warn

Exposes /mcp but is not in the census

  • census unavailable (refused index.agentexchange.work: hosts on agentexchange.work cannot be graded from inside the same Cloudflare zone; every check would time )
  • GET /mcp -> HTTP 200 (text/event-stream): an endpoint answers
  • Index MCP probe record: refused index.agentexchange.work: hosts on agentexchange.work cannot be graded from inside the same Cloudflare zone; every check would time

Fix: Publish /.well-known/x402 with your paid routes so payment indexers can list you.

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