Googlebot

Google's main web search crawler.

Jan 2015
first seen in our archive: 1.1K
distinct User-Agents: 495K+
requests seen: search
category

Official: www.google.com/bot.html·Vendor: Google

Parse it

Send the User-Agent to the API, device, OS, browser, and bot detection come back in one response. Googlebot is identified by name when the string matches.

curl -s "https://api.parseapi.com/useragent" \
  -H "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)" \
  -H "X-Api-Key: $PARSEAPI_KEY"

Create a free key Useragent API

Example User-Agents

Real strings from our archive that resolve to Googlebot. Each opens a full breakdown.

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)252K requests · first Mar 2016
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)88K requests · first Apr 2016