Everything You Want to Know about GoogleOther-Video
GoogleOther-Video is the version of Google's generic GoogleOther crawler optimized for fetching publicly accessible video URLs.
Last verified August 15, 2026 against Google's published crawler docs
Why it's crawling your site
Used by Google product teams for one-off video-fetching research and development; doesn't affect Search ranking.
How GoogleOther-Video views your website
GoogleOther-Video fetches raw page HTML (video byte fetch) — 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 GoogleOther-Video
Add the rule below to your site's robots.txt. Most crawlers, including GoogleOther-Video, check for changes within 24 hours.
User-agent: GoogleOther-Video (also matches GoogleOther)
Disallow: /Need the full walkthrough?
Partial blocks, per-directory rules, Cloudflare and server-level options, verification.