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Google-InspectionTool
Scraper / HTTP Client Unknown / community maintained robots.txt behaviour unknown
Google's inspection tool bot for testing and debugging search indexing
User-Agent
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Google-InspectionTool/1.0)Allow Google-InspectionTool in robots.txt
User-agent: Google-InspectionTool
Allow: /Block Google-InspectionTool in robots.txt
User-agent: Google-InspectionTool
Disallow: /Blocking affects this tool's ability to access your site for its stated purpose.
Official documentation: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/overview-google-crawlers
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Free dual-engine check: robots.txt verdicts for all 222 bots plus live User-Agent probes. Finds WAF blocks your robots.txt doesn't show.
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