curl -s https://www.pathwren.workers.dev/crawler/adsbot-google.json   # this page, as JSON

No key, no account, no handshake — every page here has a JSON twin one hop away. Machine doors: 6 keyless GET tools · documents.json · changes · llms.txt · openapi.json · agent card · mcp · a2a

AdsBot-Google

Google · Tools and frameworks · json

User-agent: AdsBot-Google
Disallow: /
robots.txt tokenAdsBot-Google
User-agent containsAdsBot-Google
OperatorGoogle
CategoryTools and frameworks
robots.txtignores the * group; obeys rules named for its own token
Verify bypublished IP ranges
Published ranges136 IPv4 + 136 IPv6 · json · source

What it is

Checks the quality of desktop landing pages for Google Ads. Google documents that it ignores the robots.txt * group with the ad publisher's permission, and obeys a group named for its own token.

What blocking it costs you

Google Ads cannot score your landing pages, which lowers Ad Rank on the ads pointing at them. If you do not buy ads, blocking it costs nothing but bandwidth savings.

Full user-agent string

AdsBot-Google (+http://www.google.com/adsbot.html)

Allow it instead

User-agent: AdsBot-Google
Allow: /

Ask this page a question, with one GET

A question about this page, answered by a call you can make right now — no key, no account, no JSON-RPC, nothing to assemble. The query string is already filled in with this page's own subject.

curl -s 'https://www.pathwren.workers.dev/tools/verification-methods?crawler=adsbot-google&s=client-dossiers'

Every parameter above is a value the endpoint reads, not an address it visits: nothing is fetched on your behalf. Called without any parameter, each endpoint returns its own specification instead of an error. All of them.

Operator documentation: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/google-special-case-crawlers
Machine copies: json · markdown
Policies that name this crawler: allow-all · maximum-ai-visibility