generated: '2026-08-13'
method: searched
source: >-
  https://developers.google.com/webmaster-tools/about,
  https://developers.google.com/webmaster-tools/v1/api_reference_index,
  https://developers.google.com/search/apis/indexing-api/,
  https://status.search.google.com/ (incidents.json + feed.atom probed 200 on 2026-08-13), and the
  live Google Discovery documents saved in openapi/_original/
provider: Google Search Console
providerId: google-search-console
versioning:
  scheme: path-segment service versions, plus a dated Discovery revision
  note: >-
    Three independently versioned services sit under one product. The Search Console API is
    advertised as searchconsole v1 but most of its operations still live on the older
    /webmasters/v3/ path prefix, a rename that was never a re-versioning — v1 endpoints
    (urlInspection, urlTestingTools) and v3 endpoints (sites, sitemaps, searchAnalytics) coexist
    in the same service. The Indexing API is v3. The only fine-grained version signal Google
    publishes is the `revision` field of each Discovery document.
  current:
  - api: Google Search Console API
    version: v1
    discovery_revision: '20260812'
    discovery: https://searchconsole.googleapis.com/$discovery/rest?version=v1
    path_prefixes:
    - /webmasters/v3/
    - /v1/
  - api: Web Search Indexing API
    version: v3
    discovery_revision: '20260805'
    discovery: https://indexing.googleapis.com/$discovery/rest?version=v3
    path_prefixes:
    - /v3/
deprecation:
  policy_published: false
  sunset_header: false
  deprecation_header: false
  note: >-
    Google publishes no dated deprecation or sunset policy for the Search Console APIs, and the
    responses carry no Sunset or Deprecation headers (RFC 8594). Retirements are announced on the
    Search Central blog and, when they land, are reflected as `deprecated: true` inside the
    Discovery document. That makes the Discovery document the only machine-readable deprecation
    signal a client can watch.
  deprecated_operations: []
  deprecated_fields:
  - api: Google Search Console API
    schema: WmxSitemapContent
    field: indexed
    marker: 'deprecated: true'
    provider_text: '*Deprecated; do not use.*'
    source: https://searchconsole.googleapis.com/$discovery/rest?version=v1
    affects:
    - listSitemaps
    - getSitemap
  - api: Google Search Console API
    schema: UrlInspectionResult
    field: mobileUsabilityResult
    marker: 'deprecated: true'
    source: https://searchconsole.googleapis.com/$discovery/rest?version=v1
    affects:
    - inspectUrl
    note: >-
      Follows the retirement of the Mobile Usability report in Search Console. The field is still
      returned by the contract but is marked deprecated at the source.
status_pages:
- url: https://status.search.google.com/
  name: Google Search Status Dashboard
  scope: >-
    Google Search itself — Crawling, Indexing, Ranking and Serving. The closest thing to an
    availability signal for this product; it does not explicitly cover the Search Console API
    endpoints.
  machine_readable:
  - url: https://status.search.google.com/incidents.json
    status: 200
    format: json
  - url: https://status.search.google.com/products.json
    status: 200
    format: json
  - url: https://status.search.google.com/feed.atom
    status: 200
    format: atom
- url: https://status.cloud.google.com/
  name: Google Cloud Service Health
  scope: >-
    Google Cloud services. Search Console is not a listed Cloud product, so this dashboard covers
    the surrounding platform (OAuth, API front end) rather than the Search Console API itself.
sla:
  published: false
  note: >-
    No SLA, no uptime commitment and no support contract. The API is free and governed by the
    Google APIs Terms of Service (https://developers.google.com/terms); quotas, not availability
    targets, are the published constraint.
support:
- url: https://support.google.com/webmasters/
  name: Search Console Help
- url: https://developers.google.com/search/blog
  name: Google Search Central Blog — where API and feature retirements are announced
change_signals:
- signal: Discovery document `revision` field
  cadence: irregular, several times a month
  url: https://searchconsole.googleapis.com/$discovery/rest?version=v1
  note: The most reliable machine-readable change signal for this API.
- signal: Search Central "What's new" documentation updates
  url: https://developers.google.com/search/updates
  note: Documentation-level, not API-level, but the only dated feed Google publishes here.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com