Last updated on 11.8.2025
Google’s web crawlers, known as bots or crawlers, play a crucial role in indexing and analyzing websites for search engine results.
Here is the list:
Googlebot
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
Googlebot Smartphone
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2272.96 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
Googlebot-Image
Googlebot-Image/1.0
Googlebot-News
Googlebot-News
Googlebot-Video
Googlebot-Video/1.0
AdsBot-Google
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5 Build/MMB29K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; AdsBot-Google-Mobile; +http://www.google.com/mobile/adsbot.html) Chrome/41.0.2272.96 Mobile Safari/537.36
AdsBot-Google-Mobile
AdsBot-Google-Mobile
Google Favicon
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Google-Site-Verification/1.0)
Google App Crawler
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 4.4.2; Nexus 5 Build/KOT49H) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/30.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Google AppCrawler)
Each bot has a specific purpose.
For example, Googlebot is the general web crawler used for most website indexing, while the Googlebot Smartphone is optimized for crawling mobile versions of websites. Specialized bots like Googlebot-Image and Googlebot-Video are designed to index multimedia content, ensuring that images and videos are properly categorized. AdsBot-Google and AdsBot-Google-Mobile focus on verifying the quality and placement of ads on both desktop and mobile platforms.
Additionally, bots like Google Favicon and Google App Crawler handle specific tasks, such as indexing website favicons and scanning Android apps from the Google Play store.
Googlebot IP Ranges
Essential JSON Resource for Identifying Google Crawlers:
https://developers.google.com/search/apis/ipranges/googlebot.json