Googlebot-Video

Google · Search engines · json

User-agent: Googlebot-Video
Disallow: /
robots.txt tokenGooglebot-Video
User-agent containsGooglebot-Video
OperatorGoogle
CategorySearch engines
robots.txtobeys robots.txt (documented)
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Published ranges170 IPv4 + 147 IPv6 · json · source

What it is

The video half of Googlebot. It crawls video files and the pages around them for Google Video search, and it is matched by a robots.txt group for Googlebot as well as by its own token.

What blocking it costs you

Your videos leave Google video search. A rule for Googlebot already covers it, so blocking this token alone is usually a mistake of precision rather than of intent.

Full user-agent string

Googlebot-Video/1.0

Allow it instead

User-agent: Googlebot-Video
Allow: /

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