Google-Pinpoint

Google Pinpoint personal document collection fetcher

About this crawler

Google-Pinpoint is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Google-Pinpoint in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as search-engine. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Google-Pinpoint traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.

Block-rate · top 25k sites

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Technical details

Name: Google-Pinpoint
Pattern: Google-Pinpoint
Tags: search-engine
Reference: https://developers.google.com/crawling/docs/crawlers-fetchers/google-user-triggered-fetchers
Added: 2026/05/09
rDNS suffixes: .1e100.net, .googlebot.com, .googleusercontent.com
Instances: 1 known sample(s)

rDNS verification (FCrDNS)

Verify a request is genuinely Google-Pinpoint 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

Google-Pinpoint

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow Google-Pinpoint:

User-agent: Google-Pinpoint Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Google-Pinpoint [NC] RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

if ($http_user_agent ~* "Google-Pinpoint") { return 403; }

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