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Google Inspection Tool

Name: Google Inspection Tool
Author: Google

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Google-InspectionTool is the crawler used by Search testing tools such as the Rich Result Test and URL inspection in Search Console. Apart from the user agent and user agent token, it mimics Googlebot. Operated by Google.

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Assessment

Security

What is Google Inspection Tool?

Google Inspection Tool is a web crawler operated by Google. Google-InspectionTool is the crawler used by Search testing tools such as the Rich Result Test and URL inspection in Search Console. Apart from the user agent and user agent token, it mimics Googlebot.

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Identification

Bot name

Google Inspection Tool

Operator

Google

Why it crawls your site

Google Inspection Tool crawls websites to scan for security vulnerabilities and potential threats. It is operated by Google as part of their security infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

IP ranges

Requests from Google Inspection Tool 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 Inspection Tool

Block it

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

# Allow Google Inspection Tool full access
User-agent: Google-InspectionTool
Allow: /

Allow & verify

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