Googlebot-Smartphone

Neutral Block: No Verified robots.txt: Yes

Google Smartphone crawler that indexes mobile web pages using a smartphone user agent.

Key facts

User-Agent: Googlebot-Smartphone
robots.txt token: Googlebot-Smartphone
HTTP user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
Aliases: Google Smartphone Bot

Source type: Unknown
Confidence: Unknown
Verification: Verify the exact user-agent together with the published IP ranges at https://developers.google.com/static/search/apis/ipranges/googlebot.json.
IP ranges: https://developers.google.com/static/search/apis/ipranges/googlebot.json
Source URL: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/googlebot

User-agent: Googlebot-Smartphone
Disallow: /

(http.user_agent contains "Googlebot-Smartphone")

Advanced server rules

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Googlebot\-Smartphone [NC]
RewriteRule ^ - [F,L]

if ($http_user_agent ~* "Googlebot-Smartphone") { return 403; }

Google Smartphone crawler that indexes mobile web pages using a smartphone user agent.

Googlebot-Smartphone is operated by Google. Botcrawl classifies it as a search bot with a primary purpose of user triggered.

Key profile signals: risk level: neutral; robots.txt: yes; verified: yes.

Verify the exact user-agent together with the published IP ranges at https://developers.google.com/static/search/apis/ipranges/googlebot.json.

Published IP range data is available for this bot at https://developers.google.com/static/search/apis/ipranges/googlebot.json.

Source documentation: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/googlebot

Verify the exact user-agent together with the published IP ranges at https://developers.google.com/static/search/apis/ipranges/googlebot.json.