Google has switched from updating its googlebot.json file, the file that incorporates the list of IP addresses Googlebot uses, from weekly to each day. Gary Illyes from Google mentioned this was achieved based mostly on suggestions from the group.
Gary Illyes wrote on LinkedIn:
Based mostly on suggestions from giant community operators, we modified the refresh time of the JSON objects containing the Google crawler and fetcher IP ranges (1) from weekly to each day.
When you’re consuming these recordsdata, you might have to replace your libraries for those who care about adjustments to those ranges.
Google launched this JSON file again in November 2021 and has since up to date the file numerous occasions. I take advantage of to cowl these updates, however they’re so frequent, I finished bothering.
Discussion board dialogue at LinkedIn.