Storebot-Google
Google's Storebot for crawling product and e-commerce pages
About this crawler
Storebot-Google is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Storebot-Google in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as search-engine. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Storebot-Google traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.065%
Technical details
- Name
- Storebot-Google
- Pattern
Storebot-Google- Tags
- search-engine
- Reference
- https://developers.google.com/crawling/docs/crawlers-fetchers/overview-google-crawlers
- rDNS suffixes
.1e100.net,.googlebot.com,.googleusercontent.com- Instances
- 2 known sample(s)
rDNS verification (FCrDNS)
Verify a request is genuinely Storebot-Google 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
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; Storebot-Google/1.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/79.0.3945.88 Safari/537.36
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 8.0; Pixel 2 Build/OPD3.170816.012; Storebot-Google/1.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/81.0.4044.138 Mobile Safari/537.36
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Storebot-Google:
User-agent: Storebot-Google
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Storebot-Google [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Storebot-Google") {
return 403;
}
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