Google StoreBot

Operator

Google

Type

Crawler

Official page

developers.google.com

robots.txt token

Storebot-Google

Follows robots.txt

Yes, according to Google.

Published IP ranges

developers.google.com/static/crawling/ipranges/common-crawlers.json

In Vireo

Excluded, reported under Search engines

What it does

Google's shopping crawler. Rules for it affect Google Shopping surfaces.

Storebot-Google user agent affect all surfaces of Google Shopping (for example, the Shopping tab in Google Search and Google Shopping).

Google

User agent

Requests from Google StoreBot carry a user agent like this:

Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 8.0; Pixel 2 Build/OPD3.170816.012; Storebot-Google/1.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/81.0.4044.138 Mobile Safari/537.36

Device Detector identifies it with this pattern (a case-insensitive regular expression):

Storebot-Google

Anyone can put any name in a user agent. Where the operator publishes IP ranges, checking the request's address against them is the way to confirm a visit is genuine.

How to block or allow Google StoreBot

Add a group for its token to the robots.txt file at the root of your site. To keep it out of the whole site:

User-agent: Storebot-Google
Disallow: /

To let it crawl everything, use an empty Disallow: or Allow: / instead. WordPress serves a virtual robots.txt that many SEO plugins let you edit. A real robots.txt file uploaded to the site root takes its place.

User-agent token in robots.txt Storebot-Google

Google

They always obey robots.txt rules when crawling automatically.

Google

robots.txt is a request, so it only works on crawlers that honour it. A bot that ignores it has to be blocked at the server or firewall, by user agent or IP address.

How Vireo counts Google StoreBot

Vireo keeps requests from Google StoreBot out of your pageviews and visitors and counts them on its bot report under Search engines, so you can see how much it left out rather than wonder why your server logs show more traffic.

Checked by running Vireo Analytics' own bot filter over Google StoreBot's user agents.

Sources

• Google: crawler documentation (checked October 2026)
• Matomo Device Detector, bots.yml (LGPL-3.0)