Just an hour ago, I started tailing apache log file (access logs), and since then, I ve noticed this weird user agent, (couldnt find it Google's Official Docs).
I m feeling suspicious about it, since I couldnt find anything on Google's site about this User Agent,
("Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; GoogleApps script; +http://script.google.com/bot.html))
It has crawling the login page of our site, every minute, the whole day.
Here's the log snippet:
72.14.199.55 - - [07/Aug/2013:16:06:28 +0000] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 302 639 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; GoogleApps script; +http://script.google.com/bot.html)"
72.14.199.55 - - [07/Aug/2013:16:06:28 +0000] "GET /accounts/login/ HTTP/1.1" 200 3780 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; GoogleApps script; +http://script.google.com/bot.html)"
And it has been the same IP. And it still is,
Is it common to see this pattern of crawling?
Google Apps Scripts allow users to write up JavaScript based code and set them to run at specified intervals from Google's servers.
This isn't Google's Web Crawler, it's a script that a Google User wrote.
Also: If you block the IP or whatever the Google user will probably be bombarded with "Your script has failed to run" emails every minute.