# Storebot-Google

> Checks shopping and checkout flows for Google's shopping surfaces.

| field | value |
|---|---|
| operator | Google |
| category | Search engines |
| robots.txt token | `Storebot-Google` |
| user-agent contains | `Storebot-Google` |
| robots.txt | obeys robots.txt (documented) |
| verify by | published IP ranges |
| published IP ranges | https://developers.google.com/static/search/apis/ipranges/special-crawlers.json |
| prefixes mirrored | 135 IPv4 / 135 IPv6 |
| operator docs | https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/overview-google-crawlers |
| last reviewed | 2026-09-01 |

## What blocking it costs you

Product listings may lose shopping-specific enrichment. Irrelevant to non-commerce sites.

## Full user-agent string

```
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36 (compatible; Storebot-Google/1.0; +https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/overview-google-crawlers)
```

## Block it

```
User-agent: Storebot-Google
Disallow: /
```

## Allow it

```
User-agent: Storebot-Google
Allow: /
```

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