Privacy policy.

What SearchProbe is

SearchProbe is the gsc command-line program. It runs on your own computer and calls the Google Search Console API directly over HTTPS. There is no SearchProbe server in the data path, no hosted account, and no database.

Google account access

When you run gsc auth login, you sign in with Google in your own browser and grant a single scope: https://www.googleapis.com/auth/webmasters.readonly. This scope allows reading Search Console data for properties your Google account can already access. It does not allow changing anything in Search Console.

Google returns an access token and a refresh token to the program on your computer. They are stored in a file under your user configuration directory (~/.config/gsc/ by default) with permissions restricted to your user. They are never printed, logged, or sent anywhere other than Google’s own OAuth and API endpoints.

You can revoke access at any time with gsc auth logout, which asks Google to revoke the grant and deletes the local file, or from your Google account permissions page.

Search Console data

Search Console data that gsc retrieves is returned to your terminal or to the program that invoked it, and is not stored by SearchProbe. Nothing is cached, copied, or transmitted to the maintainer. If you pipe output to a file or another tool, that copy is under your control.

Telemetry

The CLI does not collect usage analytics, crash reports, or telemetry, and there is no opt-in for it. The only network requests it makes are to Google.

Google OAuth client and quotas

Today the CLI uses a Desktop OAuth client that you create in your own Google Cloud project, so API usage is attributed to your project. A shared SearchProbe OAuth client is planned; in that mode requests would be attributed to SearchProbe’s Google Cloud project for quota purposes, but data would still travel directly between your computer and Google.

SearchProbe’s use of information received from Google APIs will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

This website

searchprobe.com is a static site. It sets no cookies, runs no analytics, and embeds no third-party scripts. Fonts are served from the same origin as the page. Standard web server access logs may record your IP address and the pages you request, as with any website.

Changes

Changes to this policy are published on this page with an updated date. The source for the CLI is available on GitHub, so its behavior can be verified directly.

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