OTHER AGENTS · GOOGLE

Google-Safety

Abuse checks, such as malware discovery for links posted on Google properties. Google says it ignores robots.txt.

Copy the robots.txt rule

All other agents

Ignores robots.txt
Can be verified
Docs checked 28 Oct 2026

At a glanceGoogle

VerifiableIdentityIP ranges, reverse DNS
Ignoresrobots.txtIgnores robots.txt
PurposeSecurity scannerNot an AI product
TokenNo robots.txt tokenUse it in a User-agent line

robots.txt

robots.txt has no effect on it. Block it at the server, firewall or CDN instead.

It has no robots.txt token of its own. Control it at the server, firewall or CDN.

Quick facts

User agent contains: Google-Safety
Operator: Google
Category: Other agents
Purpose: Security scanner
robots.txt: Ignores robots.txt
Verification: Can be verified
Documentation: developers.google.com · checked 28 Oct 2026

If you block it

Usually little, unless the check is one you or a platform you rely on runs, such as a search engine’s malware scan.

Check a visit is real

Published IP ranges: developers.google.com/static/crawling/ipranges/common-crawlers.json
Published IP ranges: developers.google.com/static/crawling/ipranges/special-crawlers.json
Published IP ranges: developers.google.com/static/crawling/ipranges/user-triggered-fetchers-google.json
Reverse DNS ending in googlebot.com or google.com, confirmed by forward DNS

Where this comes from

The same registry NdovuSEOLabs uses to classify crawler traffic in your server and CDN logs, built from the operator’s own documentation.

Registry version 2026-10-29.1

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