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Google Calendar Importer

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Google Calendar Importer is used by Google Calendar to sync with url based calendar feeds. Operated by Google.

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Assessment

Feed Fetcher

What is Google Calendar Importer?

Google Calendar Importer is a web crawler operated by Google. Google Calendar Importer is used by Google Calendar to sync with url based calendar feeds.

Helpful — Verified, safe crawler. Respects robots.txt and provides operator documentation.

Identification

Bot name

Google Calendar Importer

Operator

Google

How we rated this bot

Verified by Cloudflare, which confirms who runs it, with no widespread reports of abuse.

Names itself honestly

Yes

Verified by Cloudflare

Yes

Says it follows robots.txt and opt-outs

Not stated

Ignores site rules

None found

Disguises itself or evades blocks

None found

Overloads sites

None found

How widely people complain

No complaint about this bot in the evidence

Reddit discussion

There is no Reddit discussion of this bot in the evidence

What we read

Why it crawls your site

Google Calendar Importer crawls websites to fetch RSS and Atom feeds for content aggregation. It is operated by Google as part of their feed aggregation infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

IP ranges

Requests from Google Calendar Importer originate from these published ranges. For strict verification, match the source IP against this list in addition to checking the user-agent and reverse-DNS.

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Block or allow Google Calendar Importer

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for Google-Calendar-Importer in your robots.txt file. You can also block at the server level using your web server configuration or CDN firewall rules to filter requests matching the user-agent string.

# Block Google Calendar Importer from crawling your entire site
User-agent: Google-Calendar-Importer
Disallow: /

# Allow Google Calendar Importer full access
User-agent: Google-Calendar-Importer
Allow: /

Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows Google-Calendar-Importer. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Google's documentation.