# Googlebot-News

> A robots.txt token controlling inclusion in Google News. It does not have its own user-agent string; the fetch arrives as Googlebot.

| field | value |
|---|---|
| operator | Google |
| category | Search engines |
| robots.txt token | `Googlebot-News` |
| user-agent contains | `Googlebot-News` |
| robots.txt | obeys robots.txt (documented) |
| verify by | published IP ranges |
| published IP ranges | https://developers.google.com/static/search/apis/ipranges/googlebot.json |
| prefixes mirrored | 169 IPv4 / 146 IPv6 |
| operator docs | https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/overview-google-crawlers |
| last reviewed | 2026-09-01 |

## What blocking it costs you

Removal from Google News, with normal Search unaffected.

## Full user-agent string

```
(uses the Googlebot user-agent; controlled by the Googlebot-News robots token)
```

## Block it

```
User-agent: Googlebot-News
Disallow: /
```

## Allow it

```
User-agent: Googlebot-News
Allow: /
```

JSON: https://www.pathwren.workers.dev/crawler/googlebot-news.json · index: https://www.pathwren.workers.dev/llms.txt