`Storebot-Google`

Google says preferences for Storebot-Google affect all surfaces of Google Shopping, including the Shopping tab in Google Search and Google Shopping. The page lists only the token Storebot-Google. A group named Storebot does not match. This check matches the whole token and still reports the RFC 9309 decision. Common crawlers obey robots.txt on automatic crawls.

robots.txt token: Storebot-Google
Operator: Google
Kind: search
robots.txt: obeys. The vendor says this crawler obeys robots.txt on automatic crawls.
HTTP user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; Storebot-Google/1.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36 The page prints this desktop string and a mobile string: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 8.0; Pixel 2 Build/OPD3.170816.012; Storebot-Google/1.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Mobile Safari/537.36. Chrome/W.X.Y.Z is the page's placeholder for the Chrome version. The robots.txt token is Storebot-Google. The page does not list Googlebot on this row. A group named Storebot does not match.
IP list: https://developers.google.com/static/crawling/ipranges/common-crawlers.json The common crawlers page says these crawlers generally crawl from this list, and that a user-agent string can be spoofed. Verify with reverse DNS before trusting an IP. The page's hostname mask is crawl-***-***-***-***.googlebot.com or geo-crawl-***-***-***-***.geo.googlebot.com. URL returned HTTP 200 on 2026-10-18. Botcard does not copy the list.
Source: List of Google's common crawlers. Retrieved 2026-10-18, page says updated 2026-10-15. CC BY 4.0 (Google Developers page, except as that page notes).

JSON

curl -s https://whosthatbot.com/v1/crawlers/storebot-google

Check this token

tools/call with name check_robots is the same check at POST /mcp. The pasted file disallows Storebot-Google on /docs and allows *. The call does not fetch a host.

curl -s https://whosthatbot.com/mcp -H 'content-type: application/json' -H 'accept: application/json, text/event-stream' -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"check_robots","arguments":{"robots_txt":"User-agent: Storebot-Google\nDisallow: /\n\nUser-agent: *\nAllow: /\n","path":"/docs","ids":["storebot-google"]}}}'

That call returns fetched_target false. This row is disallow via group Storebot-Google, rule Disallow: /.