Google-Read-Aloud

Scraper / HTTP Client Unknown / community maintained robots.txt behaviour unknown

Google read aloud web crawler bot

User-Agent

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2272.118 Safari/537.36 (compatible; Google-Read-Aloud; +https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/overview-google-crawlers)

Allow Google-Read-Aloud in robots.txt

User-agent: Google-Read-Aloud
Allow: /

Block Google-Read-Aloud in robots.txt

User-agent: Google-Read-Aloud
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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