GoogleDocs
Google Docs crawler fetching web content for spreadsheet import functions
About this crawler
GoogleDocs is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern GoogleDocs in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block GoogleDocs traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.065%
Technical details
- Name
- GoogleDocs
- Pattern
GoogleDocs- Tags
- seo
- Reference
- https://accounts.google.com/v3/signin/identifier?continue=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2F&dsh=S286587930%3A1778177859467567&emr=1&followup=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2F&osid=1&passive=1209600&flowName=WebLiteSignIn&flowEntry=ServiceLogin&ifkv=AWa2PavW2qpRau4xtdtClrEBgyu9XeRedZwj8tzXCCpkwmnDNN9_7amqw4FzotUIZBRBAaLMYVlZ-w
- Added
- 2026/04/17
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; GoogleDocs; apps-spreadsheets; +http://docs.google.com)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow GoogleDocs:
User-agent: GoogleDocs
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} GoogleDocs [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "GoogleDocs") {
return 403;
}
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