Google-Safety

Google · Tools and frameworks · json

User-agent: Google-Safety
Disallow: /
robots.txt tokenGoogle-Safety
User-agent containsGoogle-Safety
OperatorGoogle
CategoryTools and frameworks
robots.txtnot governed by robots.txt (user-initiated, by operator policy)
Verify byno published verification method

What it is

Google's abuse-investigation fetcher: malware review, phishing reports and similar. Google documents that it ignores robots.txt entirely, and a robots.txt rule for it does nothing.

What blocking it costs you

Nothing you can control. The rule is ignored by design; listing the token is documentation, not enforcement.

Full user-agent string

Google-Safety

Allow it instead

User-agent: Google-Safety
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 · block-disputed · maximum-ai-visibility