Verified Bots Directory

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Google-InspectionTool

Fully verifiable

Google crawler used by Search testing tools such as the URL Inspection tool in Search Console and the Rich Result Test. Fetches pages on demand to show how Google Search renders them; it has no effect on ranking.

Operated by Google · Official documentation

User agents

Patterns this directory matches, with real observed strings.

  • regexGoogle-InspectionTool/\d
  • observedMozilla/5.0 (compatible; Google-InspectionTool/1.0)
  • observedMozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Google-InspectionTool/1.0)

How to verify

Fetch the official IP range feed

curl -s https://developers.google.com/static/crawling/ipranges/common-crawlers.json

Reverse-DNS check a client IP

dig -x <client-ip> +short   # expect a hostname matching *.googlebot.com

Reverse-DNS suffixes: *.googlebot.com, *.geo.googlebot.com

IP ranges (315)

Refreshed daily from the operator's feed. Also available as /data/ips/google-inspection-tool.ips and /data/bots/google-inspection-tool.json.

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Good Bot Practices scorecard

  • Identifies honestly

    Stable UA token documented (1 pattern)

  • Verifiable

    Fully verifiable

  • Respects robots.txt

    Honors robots.txt (token: Google-InspectionTool)

  • Behaves

    Crawl-rate behavior is operator-declared; not machine-verifiable from this dataset

  • Reachable operator

    Operator and documentation published

Measured against the Good Bot Practices.