Google AppsViewer
Google Apps document viewer
About this crawler
Google AppsViewer is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Google AppsViewer in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as social-preview. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Google AppsViewer traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
1.2%
Technical details
- Name
- Google AppsViewer
- Pattern
Google AppsViewer- Tags
- social-preview
- Reference
- http://drive.google.com
- Added
- 2026/05/09
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Google AppsViewer; http://drive.google.com)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Google AppsViewer:
User-agent: Google AppsViewer
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Google AppsViewer [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Google AppsViewer") {
return 403;
}
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