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Directory Assistants fetching for a user

Google user-triggered fetchers Bot

Fetches feeds and files. Operated by google.

Identity: Publishes its IP addresses.

How to recognise it

  • Published IP list: https://developers.google.com/static/crawling/ipranges/user-triggered-fetchers.json
  • Published IP list: https://developers.google.com/static/crawling/ipranges/user-triggered-fetchers-google.json
  • Reverse DNS ends in googlebot.com, google.com, googleusercontent.com (then forward-confirm)
  • User agent contains Google-Read-Aloud, Google Read Aloud, Google-Pinpoint, FeedFetcher-Google, GoogleProducer, Google-Site-Verification, Google-CWS, GoogleMessages

With Double Agent

Sessions from Google user-triggered fetchers are labelled bot with agent_id: google.user-fetchers, and tagged in your analytics. Nothing is blocked unless you choose to. Install: https://doubleagent.so/install.md

Source: https://developers.google.com/crawling/docs/crawlers-fetchers/google-user-triggered-fetchers ยท Operator docs: https://developers.google.com/crawling/docs/crawlers-fetchers/google-user-triggered-fetchers