AdsBot-Google-Mobile
Google's mobile Ads bot for crawling mobile pages
About this crawler
AdsBot-Google-Mobile is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern AdsBot-Google-Mobile in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as advertising. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block AdsBot-Google-Mobile traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.72%
Technical details
- Name
- AdsBot-Google-Mobile
- Pattern
AdsBot-Google-Mobile- Tags
- advertising
- Reference
- https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/2404197
- Added
- 2017/08/21
- rDNS suffixes
.1e100.net,.googlebot.com,.googleusercontent.com- Instances
- 3 known sample(s)
rDNS verification (FCrDNS)
Verify a request is genuinely AdsBot-Google-Mobile with forward-confirmed reverse DNS: the client IP's PTR record must end in one of the suffixes below and a forward A/AAAA lookup of that hostname must return the same IP. UA strings alone are spoofable; FCrDNS is not.
.1e100.net.googlebot.com.googleusercontent.com
Sample User-Agent strings
AdsBot-Google-Mobile-Apps
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 5.0; SM-G920A) AppleWebKit (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome Mobile Safari (compatible; AdsBot-Google-Mobile; +http://www.google.com/mobile/adsbot.html)
Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 9_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/601.1.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.0 Mobile/13B143 Safari/601.1 (compatible; AdsBot-Google-Mobile; +http://www.google.com/mobile/adsbot.html)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow AdsBot-Google-Mobile:
User-agent: AdsBot-Google-Mobile
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} AdsBot-Google-Mobile [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "AdsBot-Google-Mobile") {
return 403;
}
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