Google Safety
GoodBotVerifiedBOTThe Google-Safety user agent handles abuse-specific crawling, such as malware discovery for publicly posted links on Google properties Operated by Google.
What is Google Safety?
Google Safety is a web crawler operated by Google. The Google-Safety user agent handles abuse-specific crawling, such as malware discovery for publicly posted links on Google properties
Identification
Google-SafetyWhy it crawls your site
Google Safety 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 Safety 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.
Block or allow Google Safety
Add a Disallow rule for Google-Safety 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 Safety from crawling your entire site User-agent: Google-Safety Disallow: / # Allow Google Safety full access User-agent: Google-Safety Allow: /
Ensure your robots.txt allows Google-Safety. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Google's documentation.
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