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Google-Flights-Search-Spackle

GoodBotVerifiedBOT

Google's user-triggered fetcher for flight search. Fetches airline and travel site content on behalf of end-user searches to compile flight pricing and availability data. Operated by Google.

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Assessment

Search Engine Crawler

What is Google-Flights-Search-Spackle?

Google-Flights-Search-Spackle is a web crawler operated by Google. Google's user-triggered fetcher for flight search. Fetches airline and travel site content on behalf of end-user searches to compile flight pricing and availability data. As a search engine crawler, it systematically indexes web pages to build and maintain search engine results.

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

Identification

Bot name

Google-Flights-Search-Spackle

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

Credible reports found

Disguises itself or evades blocks

None found

Overloads sites

None found

How widely people complain

One or two isolated anecdotes from individual site owners

Reddit discussion

There is no Reddit discussion of this bot in the evidence

What we read

Why it crawls your site

Google-Flights-Search-Spackle crawls websites to index web pages and build search engine results. It is operated by Google as part of their search engine infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

IP ranges

Requests from Google-Flights-Search-Spackle 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-Flights-Search-Spackle

Block it

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

# Allow Google-Flights-Search-Spackle full access
User-agent: Google-Flights-Search-Spackle
Allow: /

Allow & verify

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