Updating the NotebookLM user agent
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- Google Crawling · documentation · 2026-07-16 Updating the NotebookLM user agent
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- First detected
- 2026-11-05
- Last seen in the source
- 2026-11-12
- Topic
- Crawling and indexing
- Status
- Documentation updated
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What: Updated the NotebookLM user agent to be Google-GeminiNotebook. If you hardcoded the old value in your code,…
Updating the NotebookLM user agent
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