GoogleOther-Video

Neutral Block: Depends Verified robots.txt: Yes

GoogleOther video fetcher optimized for publicly accessible video URLs.

Fetches publicly accessible video URLs for GoogleOther workflows.

Key facts

Operator: Google
Family: Google
Purpose: Unknown
User-Agent: GoogleOther-Video
Should you block it?: Depends
Verified: Yes
Respects robots.txt: Yes
Identity type: Unknown
Confidence: High
Last checked: 2026-04-03

Bot details

Identity

User-Agent: GoogleOther-Video
robots.txt token: GoogleOther-Video
HTTP user-agent: GoogleOther-Video/1.0

Ownership

Operator: Google
Family: Google
Type: Scraper
Purpose: Unknown

Verification and trust

Source type: Unknown
Confidence: High
Last checked: 2026-04-03
Verification: Verify as Google crawler traffic using Google’s crawler verification guidance.
Operator URL: https://developers.google.com/crawling/docs/crawlers-fetchers/google-common-crawlers
Source URL: https://developers.google.com/crawling/docs/crawlers-fetchers/google-common-crawlers
Spoofing risk: User-agent strings can be spoofed. Verify with the operator’s published guidance before allow-listing.

Blocking and detection

Officially documented in Google’s common crawler list.

Robots

User-agent: GoogleOther-Video
Disallow: /

Cloudflare

(http.user_agent contains "GoogleOther-Video")

Advanced server rules

Apache

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} GoogleOther-Video [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

Nginx

if ($http_user_agent ~* "GoogleOther-Video") { return 403; }

Notes

GoogleOther-Video is the video-oriented variant of GoogleOther, used for fetching publicly accessible video URLs for internal Google uses that do not affect Google Search or other products.

Evidence and source

Verify as Google crawler traffic using Google’s crawler verification guidance.
Officially documented in Google’s common crawler list.
Fetches publicly accessible video URLs for GoogleOther workflows.
User-agent strings can be spoofed. Verify with the operator’s published guidance before allow-listing.

https://developers.google.com/crawling/docs/crawlers-fetchers/google-common-crawlers