GoogleOther-Video
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Since 2024
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What is GoogleOther-Video?
GoogleOther-Video is a specialized variant of GoogleOther focused on fetching publicly accessible video content for Google's research and development purposes. It operates separately from Googlebot-Video which is used for standard video search indexing. This bot is used for experimental and internal R&D video processing. It respects robots.txt directives and can be controlled independently from other Google crawlers.
User Agent String
GoogleOther-Video/1.0
How to Control GoogleOther-Video
Block Completely
To prevent GoogleOther-Video from accessing your entire website, add this to your robots.txt file:
# Block GoogleOther-Video
User-agent: GoogleOther-Video
Disallow: /
Block Specific Directories
To restrict access to certain parts of your site while allowing others:
User-agent: GoogleOther-Video
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /private/
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /public/
Set Crawl Delay
To slow down the crawl rate (note: not all bots respect this directive):
User-agent: GoogleOther-Video
Crawl-delay: 10
How to Verify GoogleOther-Video
Verification Method:
Reverse DNS lookup should resolve to googlebot.com or google.com
Reverse DNS lookup should resolve to googlebot.com or google.com
Learn more in the official documentation.
Detection Patterns
Multiple ways to detect GoogleOther-Video in your application:
Basic Pattern
/GoogleOther\-Video/i
Strict Pattern
/^GoogleOther\-Video/1\.0$/
Flexible Pattern
/GoogleOther\-Video[\s\/]?[\d\.]*?/i
Vendor Match
/.*Google.*GoogleOther\-Video/i
Implementation Examples
// PHP Detection for GoogleOther-Video
function detect_googleother_video() {
$user_agent = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] ?? '';
$pattern = '/GoogleOther\\-Video/i';
if (preg_match($pattern, $user_agent)) {
// Log the detection
error_log('GoogleOther-Video detected from IP: ' . $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']);
// Set cache headers
header('Cache-Control: public, max-age=3600');
header('X-Robots-Tag: noarchive');
// Optional: Serve cached version
if (file_exists('cache/' . md5($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']) . '.html')) {
readfile('cache/' . md5($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']) . '.html');
exit;
}
return true;
}
return false;
}
# Python/Flask Detection for GoogleOther-Video
import re
from flask import request, make_response
def detect_googleother_video():
user_agent = request.headers.get('User-Agent', '')
pattern = r'GoogleOther-Video'
if re.search(pattern, user_agent, re.IGNORECASE):
# Create response with caching
response = make_response()
response.headers['Cache-Control'] = 'public, max-age=3600'
response.headers['X-Robots-Tag'] = 'noarchive'
return True
return False
# Django Middleware
class GoogleOtherVideoMiddleware:
def __init__(self, get_response):
self.get_response = get_response
def __call__(self, request):
if self.detect_bot(request):
# Handle bot traffic
pass
return self.get_response(request)
// JavaScript/Node.js Detection for GoogleOther-Video
const express = require('express');
const app = express();
// Middleware to detect GoogleOther-Video
function detectGoogleOtherVideo(req, res, next) {
const userAgent = req.headers['user-agent'] || '';
const pattern = /GoogleOther-Video/i;
if (pattern.test(userAgent)) {
// Log bot detection
console.log('GoogleOther-Video detected from IP:', req.ip);
// Set cache headers
res.set({
'Cache-Control': 'public, max-age=3600',
'X-Robots-Tag': 'noarchive'
});
// Mark request as bot
req.isBot = true;
req.botName = 'GoogleOther-Video';
}
next();
}
app.use(detectGoogleOtherVideo);
# Apache .htaccess rules for GoogleOther-Video
# Block completely
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} GoogleOther\-Video [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
# Or redirect to a static version
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} GoogleOther\-Video [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/static/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /static/$1 [L]
# Or set environment variable for PHP
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "GoogleOther\-Video" is_bot=1
# Add cache headers for this bot
<If "%{HTTP_USER_AGENT} =~ /GoogleOther\-Video/i">
Header set Cache-Control "public, max-age=3600"
Header set X-Robots-Tag "noarchive"
</If>
# Nginx configuration for GoogleOther-Video
# Map user agent to variable
map $http_user_agent $is_googleother_video {
default 0;
~*GoogleOther\-Video 1;
}
server {
# Block the bot completely
if ($is_googleother_video) {
return 403;
}
# Or serve cached content
location / {
if ($is_googleother_video) {
root /var/www/cached;
try_files $uri $uri.html $uri/index.html @backend;
}
try_files $uri @backend;
}
# Add headers for bot requests
location @backend {
if ($is_googleother_video) {
add_header Cache-Control "public, max-age=3600";
add_header X-Robots-Tag "noarchive";
}
proxy_pass http://backend;
}
}
Should You Block This Bot?
Recommendations based on your website type:
| Site Type | Recommendation | Reasoning |
|---|---|---|
| E-commerce | Allow | Essential for product visibility in search results |
| Blog/News | Allow | Increases content reach and discoverability |
| SaaS Application | Block | No benefit for application interfaces; preserve resources |
| Documentation | Allow | Improves documentation discoverability for developers |
| Corporate Site | Allow | Allow for public pages, block sensitive areas like intranets |
Advanced robots.txt Configurations
E-commerce Site Configuration
User-agent: GoogleOther-Video
Crawl-delay: 5
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /my-account/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /*?sort=
Disallow: /*?filter=
Disallow: /*&page=
Allow: /products/
Allow: /categories/
Sitemap: https://example.com/sitemap.xml
Publishing/Blog Configuration
User-agent: GoogleOther-Video
Crawl-delay: 10
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /drafts/
Disallow: /preview/
Disallow: /*?replytocom=
Allow: /
SaaS/Application Configuration
User-agent: GoogleOther-Video
Disallow: /app/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /settings/
Allow: /
Allow: /pricing/
Allow: /features/
Allow: /docs/
Quick Reference
User Agent Match
GoogleOther-Video
Robots.txt Name
GoogleOther-Video
Category
search
Respects robots.txt
Yes
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