GoogleProducer

Google · Tools and frameworks · json

User-agent: GoogleProducer
Disallow: /
robots.txt tokenGoogleProducer
User-agent containsGoogleProducer
OperatorGoogle
CategoryTools and frameworks
robots.txtnot governed by robots.txt (user-initiated, by operator policy)
Verify bypublished IP ranges
Published ranges529 IPv4 + 529 IPv6 · json · source

What it is

Google Publisher Center: fetches the feeds a publisher explicitly supplied for Google News landing pages. Google publishes fetcher addresses in two files — user-triggered-fetchers.json and user-triggered-fetchers-google.json — and does not say per fetcher which one applies, so verification means checking both; this index mirrors both.

What blocking it costs you

Your own Google News landing pages stop updating. Only publishers who configured Publisher Center are affected.

Full user-agent string

GoogleProducer; (+https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/google-producer)

Allow it instead

User-agent: GoogleProducer
Allow: /

Operator documentation: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/google-user-triggered-fetchers
Machine copies: json · markdown
Policies that name this crawler: allow-all · block-disputed · maximum-ai-visibility