Google Videos
recommended: allowThe Google Videos bot is the search engine crawler for Google Video Search.
What it does
Google Videos follows an algorithmic schedule shaped by your site's popularity, update cadence, and domain authority. It generally spreads requests across recurring crawl passes, throttles itself to limit server load, and respects crawl directives more reliably than most other bots.
How to identify it
User-agent contains any of:
Googlebot-VideoGoogle Videos
⚠️ Impostors often copy this name. A genuine Google Videos never matches:
Googlebot-Video
robots.txt
Well-behaved crawlers honor robots.txt. To control Google Videos:
Allow full access
User-agent: Googlebot-Video
Allow: /Block entirely
User-agent: Googlebot-Video
Disallow: /
Grey-area scrapers ignore robots.txt. Botscope enforces your policy at the edge or origin regardless —
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