OTHER AGENTS · GOOGLE
Google user-triggered fetchers
Advertising checks, monitors, security scanners and scripts that identify themselves loosely or not at all.
- Fetches when a person asks
- Can be verified
- Docs checked 28 Oct 2026
- VerifiableIdentityIP ranges, reverse DNS
- User-ledrobots.txtFetches when a person asks
- PurposeFeed reader, User-directed fetchNot an AI product
- TokenNo robots.txt tokenUse it in a User-agent line
robots.txt
It fetches a page because a person asked. The operator says robots.txt may not apply, so block it at the server or CDN if you need to.
It has no robots.txt token of its own. Control it at the server, firewall or CDN.
Quick facts
- User agent contains
- FeedFetcher-Google, APIs-Google, Google-Site-Verification, Google-Read-Aloud, GoogleProducer, Google-CWS, Google-GeminiNotebook, Google-NotebookLM, Google-Pinpoint, GoogleMessages
- Operator
- Category
- Other agents
- Purpose
- Feed reader, User-directed fetch
- robots.txt
- User-triggered
- Verification
- Can be verified
- Documentation
- developers.google.com · checked 28 Oct 2026
If you block it
Feeds and tools that fetch on someone’s behalf cannot read your pages.
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
More from Google
- Googlebot-ImageSearch indexing
- Googlebot-VideoSearch indexing
- Google-InspectionToolSearch indexing
- Storebot-GoogleSearch indexing
- GoogleOther-ImageData collection
- GoogleOther-VideoData collection
- GoogleOtherData collection
- Google-CloudVertexBotData collection
- AdsBot-GoogleAdvertising
- Mediapartners-GoogleAdvertising
- Google-AgentTransactional agent, User-directed fetch
- Google-SafetySecurity scanner
- GooglebotSearch indexing
- Googlebot-NewsSearch indexing
- Google-ExtendedAI training
See which of these crawlers visit your site.
Crawl Analytics reads your own server and CDN logs and checks each claim against the operator’s published IP ranges and DNS.