PlayStore-Google
Google Play Store crawler indexing apps and content
About this crawler
PlayStore-Google is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern PlayStore-Google in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as search-engine. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block PlayStore-Google traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
No block-rate data for this crawler.
Technical details
- Name
- PlayStore-Google
- Pattern
PlayStore-Google- Tags
- search-engine
- Reference
- https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1061943
- Added
- 2026/04/17
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/126.0.6478.182 Safari/537.36 PlayStore-Google
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow PlayStore-Google:
User-agent: PlayStore-Google
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} PlayStore-Google [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "PlayStore-Google") {
return 403;
}
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