What is Google-Safety bot?
Google-Safety bot is listed as a security scanner. Use this crawler profile to identify user-agent tokens, operator signals, platform hints, and recommended handling.
Google-Safety bot
Security scanner
- Version
- Unknown
- First seen
- Sep 17, 2025
- Confidence
- Known user-agent token
Crawler tags
Directory facts
- AI model training
- Not listed as training
- Acts on behalf of user
- No, autonomous
- Obeys directives
- No, do not rely on robots.txt alone
What is Google-Safety bot?
Google-Safety bot is listed as a security scanner. Google-Safety bot is classified as a generic crawler that may fetch pages for search, SEO, monitoring, or data collection workflows.
Google-Safety bot matched a known crawler token in the user-agent string, but this page alone does not prove IP ownership.
How to identify Google-Safety bot in logs
Search server logs for Google-Safety bot. Matching those tokens is useful for discovery, but IP verification is still recommended before trusting the identity.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/126.0.6478.182 Safari/537.36 (compatible; Google-Safety; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
Use this as a web-crawler lookup reference for identifying how this user-agent presents itself in server logs. After you identify crawler traffic, run the WebMCP Compatibility Checker to confirm whether AI crawlers and agents can understand your site.
User-agent signals
- Product tokens
- Mozilla/5.0, Windows, NT, AppleWebKit/537.36, Gecko, Chrome/126.0.6478.182, Safari/537.36, Google-Safety
- Documentation
- http://www.google.com/bot.html
- Contact
- None found
- Platform
- Windows · Desktop
- Browser profile
- Chrome · Blink
- Browser-like UA
- Yes
- HTTP library
- Unknown
- Spoof risk
- Medium
Questions answered by this crawler profile
What is Google-Safety bot?
Google-Safety bot is listed as a security scanner. Google-Safety bot is classified as a generic crawler that may fetch pages for search, SEO, monitoring, or data collection workflows.
Does Google-Safety bot train AI models?
Google-Safety bot is not listed as being used to train AI or LLM systems.
Is Google-Safety bot user-triggered?
Google-Safety bot is listed as operating independently of a direct user action.
How do I identify Google-Safety bot in logs?
Search server logs for Google-Safety bot. Matching those tokens is useful for discovery, but IP verification is still recommended before trusting the identity.
Does Google-Safety bot respect robots.txt?
This directory entry lists the crawler as not obeying robots.txt directives. Use server-side access controls, firewall rules, or rate limits when policy enforcement matters.