Google Search Console
Google Search Console verification and testing tool
About this crawler
Google Search Console is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Google Search Console in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Google Search Console traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
1.2%
Technical details
- Name
- Google Search Console
- Pattern
Google Search Console- Tags
- seo
- Reference
- https://search.google.com/search-console
- Added
- 2026/05/09
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; Google Search Console) Chrome/27.0.1453 Safari/537.36
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Google Search Console:
User-agent: Google Search Console
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Google Search Console [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Google Search Console") {
return 403;
}
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