Search engines
Googlebot-Image
Crawls images for Google Images, Discover and the image features in Search.
Follows robots.txt- User agent token
- Googlebot-Image
- Operator
- Verification
- Published IP list , reverse DNS googlebot.com, google.com
- Source
- Google documentation
What a search engine crawler does
A search engine crawler indexes pages for regular search results. Blocking it removes the site from that engine, so most sites keep it allowed.
Block or allow Googlebot-Image in robots.txt
Add one of these to the robots.txt file at the root of your domain. Crawlers read it before they fetch anything else.
Block Googlebot-Image
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow: /
Allow Googlebot-Image
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Allow: /
More from Google
Questions, answered.
Googlebot-Image is a search engine crawler run by Google. Crawls images for Google Images, Discover and the image features in Search.
Yes. Google says Googlebot-Image follows robots.txt.
Add "User-agent: Googlebot-Image" and "Disallow: /" to your robots.txt.
Check the request's IP address against the list Google publishes. A user agent alone proves nothing, since any script can copy it.
Yes. Googlebot-Image indexes pages for Google's search results, which send people to your site.
Usually not. Blocking Googlebot-Image removes your pages from its search results.
In its own documentation at https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/google-common-crawlers. Every fact on this page comes from there.
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