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Google Read Aloud

Google Read Aloud is Google's crawler. This crawler fetches a page in real time to answer a specific user's question.

Crawler facts

Operator	Google
User agent token	`google-read-aloud`
Traffic type	AI answers
Verification	UA + IP range
IP source	https://developers.google.com/static/crawling/ipranges/user-triggered-fetchers.json

What "verified" means for Google Read Aloud

For Google Read Aloud, "verified" means DataSaaS compares the request IP against Google's published ranges. A request carrying this user agent from any other IP is recorded as unverified.

Track it

Google Read Aloud fetches raw HTML and never runs JavaScript, so no browser tag can see it. Install the DataSaaS server-side package to record every request and verify the ones that publish IP ranges.

Read the bot-traffic setup guide

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