# Googlebot-Video

> 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.

| field | value |
|---|---|
| operator | Google |
| category | Search engines |
| robots.txt token | `Googlebot-Video` |
| user-agent contains | `Googlebot-Video` |
| 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 | 170 IPv4 / 147 IPv6 |
| operator docs | https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/google-common-crawlers |
| last reviewed | 2026-09-01 |

## 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
```

## Block it

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

## Allow it

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

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