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Google Firebase

Name: Google Firebase
Author: Google

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A specialized fetcher used by Google Firebase services to validate, preview, or process content for mobile and web application development tools. Operated by Google.

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Assessment

Advertising & Marketing

What is Google Firebase?

Google-Firebase is a specialized user agent operated by Google to support the Firebase platform's infrastructure. It is primarily utilized to fetch website metadata and content to ensure that dynamic links, app previews, and hosting configurations function correctly for developers. Unlike general-purpose search crawlers, this agent is typically triggered by specific developer actions or platform-level service requirements within the Firebase ecosystem.

Helpful — This is a legitimate Google service agent used to facilitate app deep linking, dynamic links, and verification processes for developers.

Identification

Bot name

Google Firebase

Operator

Google

Why it crawls your site

This bot crawls websites to verify that deep links and app-related metadata are correctly configured, allowing Firebase to generate accurate previews for social sharing and mobile app routing. It ensures that the content served by a developer's site aligns with the expectations of the Firebase Dynamic Links service. You can verify this bot by performing a reverse DNS lookup on the originating IP address to confirm it resolves to a googlebot.com domain.

IP ranges

Requests from Google Firebase 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 Firebase

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for Google-Firebase 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 Firebase from crawling your entire site
User-agent: Google-Firebase
Disallow: /

# Allow Google Firebase full access
User-agent: Google-Firebase
Allow: /