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What is Google-CloudVertexBot?
Crawls a site when its owner asks Google to, for building Vertex AI Agents. It follows robots.txt and uses Google's common crawler IP ranges.
- robots.txt token
Google-CloudVertexBot- Operator
- Purpose
- Search
- Obeys robots.txt
- Yes The operator says it follows robots.txt.
- Documented by operator
- Yes, on the operator's own pages.
- Published IP list
- developers.google.com/static/crawling/ipranges/common-crawlers.json
- Documentation
- developers.google.com
Block Google-CloudVertexBot from your whole site
User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot
Disallow: /
Allow it, but keep private paths out
User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/
Other bots from Google
GooglebotGoogle-ExtendedGoogleOtherGoogle-AgentGoogle-GeminiNotebookGemini SparkGemini-Deep-ResearchGoogleAgent-Mariner
Add it to a robots.txt in the generator →