GoogleAssociationService
Google service verifying digital asset links between apps and websites
About this crawler
GoogleAssociationService is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern GoogleAssociationService\/ in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block GoogleAssociationService traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
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Technical details
- Name
- GoogleAssociationService
- Pattern
GoogleAssociationService\/- Tags
- seo
- Reference
- https://developers.google.com/identity/credential-sharing/digital-asset-links#:~:text=then%20act%20upon.-,Overview,as%20location%2C%20with%20website%20B.
- Added
- 2026/04/17
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
GoogleAssociationService/
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow GoogleAssociationService:
User-agent: GoogleAssociationService
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} GoogleAssociationService\/ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "GoogleAssociationService\\/") {
return 403;
}
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