"Is this page actually indexed?" is one of the most common questions on a client call — and one most tools answer with a stale guess. Crawl Cove answers it live, by calling Google's URL Inspection API for the exact URL you're looking at.
Note
What you'll need: Google Search Console connected for the client. See Connecting Search Console. No extra key beyond the GSC OAuth you already set up.
What it tells you
On the Pages / URL inspector, each crawled URL carries an Index status panel. When you request it, Crawl Cove calls Google on demand and returns the live result for that exact URL:
- Is it indexed? — Google's current verdict.
- Last crawl — when Googlebot last fetched the page.
- Coverage state — Google's own coverage description (indexed, excluded, crawled but not indexed, and so on).
Because it's a live call against your connected Search Console property, it reflects what
Google believes right now — not what a crawler inferred from a noindex tag or a
sitemap. That makes it the definitive answer when a client asks why a page isn't showing
up.
Why it runs per URL, on request
Heads up
Google's URL Inspection API is quota-bound — roughly 2,000 inspections per day across your whole account. To respect that limit, Crawl Cove runs the check per URL, on request, rather than firing it for every page in a crawl. You ask for the URLs you care about; the quota lasts.
This is a deliberate design choice, not a limitation to apologise for. Site-wide live inspection would burn the daily quota in a single audit of a mid-sized site. Running it on demand means the quota is there when you need a definitive answer on the handful of pages a client is actually asking about — a striking-distance landing page, a new product URL, a page you just fixed.
Tip
Pair this with the deterministic crawl findings. The crawl tells you a page carries a
noindex directive or a bad canonical (instantly, for every page); the live URL
Inspection confirms what Google has done with it. Use the cheap deterministic signal to
shortlist, then spend an inspection to confirm.
Next
- Inspecting a URL — the Pages inspector that hosts the index status panel alongside CWV, findings, and query data.
- Connecting Search Console — the one-time setup that unlocks live index status and impact scoring.