AssistantBlocking it costs you visibility
Google-NotebookLM
Pulls a page a NotebookLM user added as a source.
- robots.txt token
Google-NotebookLM- Operator
- Google ↗
- Powers
- NotebookLM sources
- Honours robots.txt
- Not documented
Allow it
User-agent: Google-NotebookLM
Allow: /Block it
User-agent: Google-NotebookLM
Disallow: /Need the whole file, with every crawler and your private paths — and the llms.txt to go with it? The generator writes them. AI config generator →
User-Agent
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Google-NotebookLM; +https://notebooklm.google) Crawlable/1.0; +https://crawlable.fr/probeThis is the string we send when probing. The Crawlable suffix identifies us in your logs.
Check your own site
robots.txt is only half the answer: your CDN can refuse Google-NotebookLM before it ever reads the file. A scan checks both.
Free, no account, about 5 seconds.