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Googlebot-Video
Google's video crawler for video-related Google Search features
About this crawler
Googlebot-Video is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Googlebot-Video in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as search-engine. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Googlebot-Video traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.13%
Technical details
- Name
- Googlebot-Video
- Pattern
Googlebot-Video- Tags
- search-engine
- rDNS suffixes
.1e100.net,.googlebot.com,.googleusercontent.com- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
rDNS verification (FCrDNS)
Verify a request is genuinely Googlebot-Video 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
Googlebot-Video/1.0
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Googlebot-Video:
User-agent: Googlebot-Video
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Googlebot-Video [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Googlebot-Video") {
return 403;
}
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