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Google Image Proxy

Name: Google Image Proxy
Author: Google

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The Google Image Proxy bot is used to render link content sent via email in Gmail. Operated by Google.

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Assessment

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What is Google Image Proxy?

Google Image Proxy is a web crawler operated by Google. The Google Image Proxy bot is used to render link content sent via email in Gmail.

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

Identification

Bot name

Google Image Proxy

Operator

Google

Why it crawls your site

Google Image Proxy crawls websites to generate link previews and thumbnails for shared URLs. It is operated by Google as part of their link preview infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

IP ranges

Requests from Google Image Proxy 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 Image Proxy

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for GoogleImageProxy 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 Image Proxy from crawling your entire site
User-agent: GoogleImageProxy
Disallow: /

# Allow Google Image Proxy full access
User-agent: GoogleImageProxy
Allow: /

Allow & verify

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