{
 "slug": "google-cloudvertexbot",
 "name": "Google-CloudVertexBot",
 "operator": "Google",
 "operator_slug": "google",
 "category": "ai-search",
 "category_label": "AI search crawlers",
 "robots_token": "Google-CloudVertexBot",
 "user_agent_substring": "Google-CloudVertexBot",
 "user_agent_example": "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Google-CloudVertexBot/1.0; +https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/google-common-crawlers)",
 "respects_robots_txt": "documented",
 "respects_robots_txt_label": "obeys robots.txt (documented)",
 "verification_method": "published-ranges",
 "verification_label": "published IP ranges",
 "published_ip_ranges_url": "https://developers.google.com/static/search/apis/ipranges/special-crawlers.json",
 "ip_ranges_endpoint": "https://www.pathwren.workers.dev/ip-ranges/google-special.json",
 "ipv4_prefix_count": 135,
 "ipv6_prefix_count": 135,
 "what_it_is": "Crawls a site on behalf of a Vertex AI Agent Builder customer who is building an agent over that site. It only visits sites the customer has asked it to.",
 "cost_of_blocking": "Third parties can no longer build Vertex AI agents that read your site. Irrelevant to Google Search.",
 "operator_docs": "https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/overview-google-crawlers",
 "html_url": "https://www.pathwren.workers.dev/crawler/google-cloudvertexbot.html",
 "json_url": "https://www.pathwren.workers.dev/crawler/google-cloudvertexbot.json",
 "last_reviewed": "2026-09-01"
}