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Google Publisher Center

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Fetches and processes feeds that publishers explicitly supplied for use in Google News landing pages. Operated by Google.

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Assessment
Feed Fetcher
Category
BOT
Kind
1
Data sources
AI-generated summary, drawn from Cloudflare, operator docs, and community data

What is Google Publisher Center?

Google Publisher Center is a web crawler operated by Google. Fetches and processes feeds that publishers explicitly supplied for use in Google News landing pages.

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

Identification

Bot name
Google Publisher Center
Operator
Google
Category
Feed Fetcher
Kind
BOT
Verification
Verified bot
Cloudflare slug
google-publisher-center
User-agent patterns
GoogleProducer
User-agent string
GoogleProducer; (+https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/google-producer)
Main use cases
RSS/Atom feed fetchingContent aggregationNotification delivery

Why it crawls your site

Google Publisher Center 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 Publisher Center 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 Publisher Center

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for GoogleProducer 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 Publisher Center from crawling your entire site
User-agent: GoogleProducer
Disallow: /

# Allow Google Publisher Center full access
User-agent: GoogleProducer
Allow: /
Allow & verify

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

Traffic & trends

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Data sources

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Last updated July 21, 2026