Bot intelligence record

Google Calendar Importer

Usually allow

Identify Google Calendar fetches used to sync URL-based calendar feeds.

Feed Feed Fetch Official Documented Confidence: High Verified: Yes robots.txt: No
Operator
Google
Family
Google
Type
Feed
Source type
Official
Last checked
2026-05-20

User-Agent Pattern

Google
Google-Calendar-Importer
Verification note

User-agent strings are identification signals, not proof of identity. Confirm important allow, block, or rate-limit decisions with logs, DNS or IP evidence, request behavior, or operator documentation when available.

Robots.txt Snippet

Click snippet to copy 
User-agent: Google-Calendar-Importer
Disallow: /

Click the snippet to copy it, or highlight the text manually.

Handling Guidance

No

This bot is usually safe to allow when the request source is verified and the traffic matches your site policy.

Syncing URL-based calendar feeds into Google Calendar.

Record Details

Structured data
Operator
Google
Family
Google
Type
Feed
Purpose
Feed Fetch
Identity type
Official Documented
Confidence
High
Last verified
2026-05-20
Last checked
2026-05-20
Source type
Official
Verification
Verify the user-agent with Google user-triggered fetcher documentation, then confirm source identity with Google published IP range objects or reverse DNS when allowing privileged access.
IP ranges
https://developers.google.com/crawling/docs/crawlers-fetchers/google-user-triggered-fetchers
Spoofing risk
User-agent strings for Google-Calendar-Importer can be spoofed. Treat user-agent detection as a classification signal, then verify with Google documentation, published Google IP range objects, reverse DNS, request path, and feed-sync behavior before allow-listing.

Notes

Google Calendar Importer is used by Google Calendar to sync URL-based calendar feeds.

Identification

Match the Google-Calendar-Importer user-agent in HTTP request logs.

Recommended Handling

Normally allow this if your site publishes ICS or URL-based calendar feeds. User-triggered Google fetchers generally ignore robots.txt because the request is initiated by a user action.

Evidence and Source

  • Verify the user-agent with Google user-triggered fetcher documentation, then confirm source identity with Google published IP range objects or reverse DNS when allowing privileged access.
  • Match `Google-Calendar-Importer` in HTTP user-agent logs. Expect requests against calendar/feed endpoints rather than full-site crawling.
  • Syncing URL-based calendar feeds into Google Calendar.
  • User-agent strings for Google-Calendar-Importer can be spoofed. Treat user-agent detection as a classification signal, then verify with Google documentation, published Google IP range objects, reverse DNS, request path, and feed-sync behavior before allow-listing.

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

Same family: Google

ProjectShield-UrlCheck Safe

ProjectShield Url Check

ProjectShield Url Check is a security scanner from Google used for security checks, malware review, or abuse prevention.

Operator and family: Google Type: Security
Verified robots.txt: No Block: No Verified Bot
GoogleOther-Image Neutral

GoogleOther-Image

GoogleOther-Image is an AI crawler from Google used for AI-related crawling, retrieval, search, or assistant activity.

Operator and family: Google Type: Ai Purpose: Ai Training
Verified robots.txt: Yes Block: Depends Official Documented
GoogleOther-Video Neutral

GoogleOther-Video

GoogleOther-Video is an AI crawler from Google used for AI-related crawling, retrieval, search, or assistant activity.

Operator and family: Google Type: Ai Purpose: Ai Training
Verified robots.txt: Yes Block: Depends Official Documented
Google-Display-Ads-Bot Neutral

Google-Display-Ads-Bot

Google AdSense uses a crawler called Google-Display-Ads-Bot to verify your site when you add a site to AdSense.

Operator and family: Google Type: Search Purpose: Indexing
Verified robots.txt: Yes Block: Depends Verified Bot

Same operator: Google

GoogleAgent-Mariner Neutral

GoogleAgent-Mariner

Claimed Google Project Mariner user-agent token for agentic browser activity.

Operator: Google Family: Google Mariner Type: Ai Purpose: Agentic Browsing
Not verified robots.txt: Unknown Block: Depends Observed
Google-Extended Safe

Google-Extended

Google-Extended is an AI control token from Google used for AI-related crawling, retrieval, search, or assistant activity.

Operator and family: Google Type: Ai Purpose: Ai Assistant
Verified robots.txt: Yes Block: Depends Official Documented
Google-NotebookLM Neutral

Google-NotebookLM

Google-NotebookLM is an AI fetcher from Google used for AI-related crawling, retrieval, search, or assistant activity.

Operator and family: Google Type: Ai Purpose: Ai Assistant
Verified robots.txt: No Block: Depends Official Documented
Google-Pinpoint Safe

Google-Pinpoint

Google-Pinpoint is a search crawler from Google used for search indexing, page discovery, or content rendering.

Operator and family: Google Type: Search
Verified robots.txt: No Block: Depends Official Documented

Similar purpose: Feed Fetch

Citoid/WMF Neutral

WMF Citoid

WMF Citoid is a feed retrieval bot from Wikimedia Foundation used to retrieve feeds, subscriptions, podcasts, or syndicated content.

Operator and family: Wikimedia Foundation Type: Feed Purpose: Feed Fetch
Verified robots.txt: No Block: Depends Verified Bot
ZoteroTranslationServer/WMF Neutral

WMF Zotero Translation Server

WMF Zotero Translation Server is a feed retrieval bot from Wikimedia Foundation used to retrieve feeds, subscriptions, podcasts, or syndicated content.

Operator and family: Wikimedia Foundation Type: Feed Purpose: Feed Fetch
Verified robots.txt: No Block: Depends Verified Bot
videootvBot Neutral

videootv Bot

Crawler to extract the newest articles in the publisher's website (via feed or parsing html) to make a carrousel with images, links and text for our native ads module in order to improve.

Operator and family: Digital Green Type: Feed Purpose: Feed Fetch
Verified robots.txt: Yes Block: Depends Verified Bot
SkroutzBot Safe

SkroutzBot

Skroutz uses SkroutzBot web crawler to download XML feeds.

Operator and family: Skroutz S.A. Type: Feed Purpose: Feed Fetch
Verified robots.txt: No Block: Depends Verified Bot

Monitor This Bot In Edge

Botcrawl Edge

Use Botcrawl Edge to see matching traffic, create allow or block rules, and control this bot across connected sites.

Get Edge Now Open BotDB