APIs-Google

Google · Tools and frameworks · json

User-agent: APIs-Google
Disallow: /
robots.txt tokenAPIs-Google
User-agent containsAPIs-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

Delivers push notifications for Google APIs to a webhook you registered. It is a special-case crawler: it ignores the robots.txt * group, because the fetch is a delivery to an address you asked it to deliver to.

What blocking it costs you

Google API push notifications stop arriving at your endpoint. This only affects services you set up yourself; there is no search or AI consequence.

Full user-agent string

APIs-Google (+https://developers.google.com/webmasters/APIs-Google.html)

Allow it instead

User-agent: APIs-Google
Allow: /

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