Google Pinpoint

Safe Block: Depends Verified robots.txt: No

Google Pinpoint fetcher that requests URLs users specify as sources for Pinpoint collections.

Fetches user-supplied source URLs for Google Pinpoint collections.

Key facts

Source type: Unknown
Confidence: High
Last checked: 2026-04-03
Verification: Verify with Google’s published fetcher documentation and Google verification guidance.
Operator URL: https://support.google.com/pinpoint/
Source URL: https://developers.google.com/crawling/docs/crawlers-fetchers/google-user-triggered-fetchers
Spoofing risk: User-agent strings can be spoofed. Verify with the operator’s published guidance before allow-listing.

Officially documented in Google’s user-triggered fetchers list.

User-agent: Google-Pinpoint
Disallow: /

(http.user_agent contains "Google-Pinpoint")

Advanced server rules

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Google-Pinpoint [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

if ($http_user_agent ~* "Google-Pinpoint") { return 403; }

Google-Pinpoint is a user-triggered Google fetcher that requests individual URLs users added as sources for Pinpoint research collections.

Verify with Google’s published fetcher documentation and Google verification guidance.
Officially documented in Google’s user-triggered fetchers list.
Fetches user-supplied source URLs for Google Pinpoint collections.
User-agent strings can be spoofed. Verify with the operator’s published guidance before allow-listing.