Google's Crawler IP Ranges Moved: What Broke and How to Fix It | AiVIS.biz Blogs

By · · 11 min read · TECHNOLOGY

The old Google crawler IP endpoints stopped returning real data on 7 April 2026, but they didn\

Key Takeaways

  • Google moved crawler IP range files from /search/apis/ipranges/ to /crawling/ipranges/ — and renamed googlebot.json to common-crawlers.json.
  • The old URLs return 200 OK with an "Action needed" JSON message instead of IP prefixes. No redirect, no 404.
  • One file (user-triggered-agents.json) still returns real but stale data from 2026-03-03 at the old URL — a different failure mode.
  • Systems using loose JSON parsing may silently ingest empty allowlists. Strict schemas will crash — which is actually the better outcome.
  • The fix is straightforward: update 5 endpoint URLs and add response schema validation to catch future changes.

Article

On 31 March 2026, Google announced that the JSON files listing their crawler IP ranges were moving from \

This is a preview. Enable JavaScript for the full interactive reading experience with related articles and discussion.