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google-xrawler

Name: google-xrawler
Author: Google

GoodBotVerifiedBOT

Google's user-triggered fetcher for merchant product feeds. Fetches XML product feeds from e-commerce sites for syncing with Google Merchant Center. Operated by Google.

Operator website ↗

GoodBot

Assessment

Search Engine Crawler

What is google-xrawler?

google-xrawler is a web crawler operated by Google. Google's user-triggered fetcher for merchant product feeds. Fetches XML product feeds from e-commerce sites for syncing with Google Merchant Center. 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-xrawler

Operator

Google

Why it crawls your site

google-xrawler 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-xrawler 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-xrawler

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for google-xrawler 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-xrawler from crawling your entire site
User-agent: google-xrawler
Disallow: /

# Allow google-xrawler full access
User-agent: google-xrawler
Allow: /