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Google-Publisher-Plugin
Google Publisher Plugin
About this crawler
Google-Publisher-Plugin is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Google-Publisher-Plugin in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as advertising. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Google-Publisher-Plugin traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
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Technical details
- Name
- Google-Publisher-Plugin
- Pattern
Google-Publisher-Plugin- Tags
- advertising
- Added
- 2026/05/09
- Instances
- 2 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 4.0.4; Galaxy Nexus Build/IMM76B) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; Google-Publisher-Plugin) Chrome/27.0.1453 Mobile Safari/537.36
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko, Google-Publisher-Plugin) Chrome/27.0.1453 Safari/537.36
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Google-Publisher-Plugin:
User-agent: Google-Publisher-Plugin
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Google-Publisher-Plugin [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Google-Publisher-Plugin") {
return 403;
}
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