Google-HTTP-Java-Client
Google HTTP Java client library
About this crawler
Google-HTTP-Java-Client is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Google-HTTP-Java-Client\/ in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as http-library. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Google-HTTP-Java-Client traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
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Technical details
- Name
- Google-HTTP-Java-Client
- Pattern
Google-HTTP-Java-Client\/- Tags
- http-library
- Reference
- https://github.com/googleapis/google-http-java-client
- Added
- 2026/05/09
- Instances
- 2 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Google-HTTP-Java-Client/1.17.0-rc (gzip)
Google-HTTP-Java-Client/1.9.0-alpha
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Google-HTTP-Java-Client:
User-agent: Google-HTTP-Java-Client
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Google-HTTP-Java-Client\/ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Google-HTTP-Java-Client\\/") {
return 403;
}
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