Google Adds Chrome Web Store Google-CWS User Agent To Docs

Nov 4, 2025 - 7:11 am 0 — by

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Google added a new user agent to the Googlebot's user-triggered fetchers documentation. The new user agent is for the Chrome Web Store named Google-CWS.

The Chrome Web Store fetcher requests URLs that developers provide in the metadata of their Chrome extensions and themes.

The user agent for the Chrome Web Store fetcher is "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Google-CWS)".

User-triggered fetchers are initiated by users to perform a fetching function within a Google product.

Here is a screenshot of it:

Google Cws Agent

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