Everything You Want to Know about APIs-Google
APIs-Google is a Google special-case crawler whose crawling preferences affect delivery of push notification messages by Google APIs; it ignores the global (*) robots.txt group.
Last verified August 15, 2026 against Google's published crawler docs
Why it's crawling your site
Fetches tied to Google API push-notification delivery, not related to Search ranking.
How APIs-Google views your website
APIs-Google fetches raw page HTML (full page html) — it does not execute JavaScript. Content that only appears after client-side rendering is invisible to it.
Paste a URL for the rendered-vs-crawled diff, blocked resources, and the sections that never reach the bot.
How to block APIs-Google
Add the rule below to your site's robots.txt. Most crawlers, including APIs-Google, check for changes within 24 hours.
User-agent: APIs-Google
Disallow: /Need the full walkthrough?
Partial blocks, per-directory rules, Cloudflare and server-level options, verification.