Googlebot-IA
Google Scholar crawler indexing academic papers and library content
About this crawler
Googlebot-IA is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Googlebot-IA\/ in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as search-engine, academic. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Googlebot-IA traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
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Technical details
- Name
- Googlebot-IA
- Pattern
Googlebot-IA\/- Tags
- search-engine, academic
- Reference
- https://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/libraries.html
- Added
- 2026/04/17
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Googlebot-IA/2.1
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Googlebot-IA:
User-agent: Googlebot-IA
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Googlebot-IA\/ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Googlebot-IA\\/") {
return 403;
}
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