About this bot
Google Scholar is associated with Google and used for scholarly-indexing.
The primary identifying signal is Googlebot-IA.
Representative request identity: Googlebot-IA/2.1.
Directory status: Active. Identity classification: Verified with High confidence. Identity type: official-documented.
This identity is recorded as honoring robots.txt under `Googlebot-IA`.
Common use: crawling and indexing scholarly literature for Google Scholar.
Risk classification: Safe. Recommended handling: depends.
How to identify this bot
- User-agent and crawler identifiers
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Googlebot-IAGooglebot-IA/2.1 - Also known as
- Google Scholar crawler
Details
- Kind
- Crawler
- Family
- Purpose
- Scholarly indexing
- Common Use
- crawling and indexing scholarly literature for Google Scholar
- Respects robots.txt
- Yes
Verification
- Identity Type
- Officially documented
- Evidence Method
- Match `Googlebot-IA` as the documented identity signal and corroborate source network, DNS, signatures, or request context when stronger authentication is required.
- Detection Notes
- Match the `Googlebot-IA` identity in request logs and corroborate the surrounding request context. A User-Agent string alone can be copied.
Website controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
User-agent: Googlebot-IA Disallow: /