topic Re: API documentation no longer indexed by google in Fusion API and Scripts Forum

API documentation no longer indexed by google

jordan783ZS — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:08:09 GMT

This is a bit of a weird one, but I noticed recently that I can no longer search for any of the documentation for the fusion API in google.
Even if I search for a specific function or class such as:

fusion "CloudFileDialog"

The search doesn't return me the actual page for this item.

Funnily, Bing seems to work fine, giving me the correct page as the first result (just as a google search used to)

This behaviour is very strange and incredibly frustrating, making it significantly slower to use write scripts unless I change search engines.

I don't know if it was somehow intentional to stop the pages being scraped by AIs or something or just an accidental effect of some infrastructural change to the documentation, but if this could be fixed it would be greatly appreciated.

Re: API documentation no longer indexed by google

john.kirchner — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:07:30 GMT

I'm not aware of any intentional decision to de-list our API documentation, I will look further into that! Here are some alternatives:

The Index page is very useful, you may want to bookmark that. It lists every class and property/function so you can just ctrl+f on the page to search https://help.autodesk.com/view/fusion360/ENU/?guid=GUID-1DC60EE7-05E9-4C37-965C-533DE72E40A6

The search on our website works as well

There is also the Product Help MCP Server if you are using AI https://help.autodesk.com/view/ADSKMCP/ENU/?guid=ADSKMCP_ProductHelpMcp_autodesk_product_help_mcp_server_html

Re: API documentation no longer indexed by google

jordan783ZS — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 02:16:48 GMT

The index definitely looks like a good place to keep on hand thank you.
I do use the search also, these are both just more round-about solutions when I was previously able to simply google the function and get a quick answer.

This is purely for my own use. I don't ever use any kind of AI.

Re: API documentation no longer indexed by google

coleevaeva — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 07:57:48 GMT

This sounds more like an indexing issue than a problem with the documentation itself. If a whole section of the Fusion API docs has disappeared from Google around the same time, I would first check whether there was a recent change to the page templates, canonical tags, robots directives, redirects, or internal linking.

You can also try a site search for the specific Autodesk documentation URLs to see whether Google still has them indexed. If only certain pages have disappeared, it could be a crawl or indexing issue. If the entire documentation section is missing, there may have been a broader technical change.

The Autodesk team would have more visibility through Google Search Console, especially URL Inspection, crawl stats, and indexing reports.

I also work with technical SEO and indexing issues at Gonzay, and these are usually the first checks I would make when pages suddenly stop appearing in Google.

https://thegonzay.au/

Hopefully Autodesk can confirm whether anything changed on the documentation side recently.