Add Googlebot User Agent to Safari Develop Menu

If you’re like me, you’ve wanted to have the Googlebot user agent availalbe in the Develop menu of Safari.

1. Go to /Applications/
2. Right-click on Safari.app and select Show Package Contents
3. Navigate to Contents/Resources/
4. Find `UserAgents.plist`
5. Open `UserAgents.plist` in your favorite text editor
6. Either
   • Replace with the contents of this file and continue to step 9: [download id=”12″]
   • … or continue on:
7. At the end of the file, find:

   </array>
   </plist>

8. Replace with:

   	<dict>
   		<key>separator</key>
   		<true/>
   	</dict>
   	<dict>
   		<key>name</key>
   		<string>Googlebot</string>
   		<key>version</key>
   		<string>2.1</string>
   		<key>platform</key>
   		<string>Googlebot</string>
   		<key>user-agent</key>
   		<string>Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)</string>
   	</dict>
   	<dict>
   		<key>name</key>
   		<string>Bing</string>
   		<key>version</key>
   		<string>2.0</string>
   		<key>platform</key>
   		<string>Bingbot</string>
   		<key>user-agent</key>
   		<string>Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; bingbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm)</string>
   	</dict>
   </array>
   </plist>
   

9. Save the file (you’ll need to type in your user password)

Voila! Now in your Safari Develop > User Agent menu, you should see `Googlebot 2.1 – Googlebot` and `Bing 2.0 – Bingbot`.