API documentation no longer indexed by google

API documentation no longer indexed by google

jordan783ZS
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API documentation no longer indexed by google

jordan783ZS
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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.

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

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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.

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john.kirchner
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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

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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_se...




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jordan783ZS
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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.

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