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Add a user to many Search Console properties

A new agency or freelancer needs access to ten Search Console properties, and each one has its own Users and permissions screen to open, fill in and save.

Cotlet does it in your own Google Search Console account with list_users and add_user, called by your AI agent, an n8n workflow or a script.

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Can Google Search Console do this on its own?

The Search Console API has no methods for users and permissions (checked 16 Oct 2026); its sites methods add and delete a property in your account but do not share it. Google documents adding users only in Settings > Users and permissions.

How you do it in Google Search Console today

  1. Switch to the property in Search Console and open Settings > Users and permissions.
  2. Click Add user, enter the person's Google Account email (an email group cannot be added) and choose a permission: Owner, Full or Restricted.
  3. Save, then switch to the next property and repeat the same steps.
  4. Only a property owner, or an owner of the parent property, can add or remove users.
  5. The 100 non-owner limit is per property, and nothing warns you in advance when a busy property is close to it.

How to add a user to many Search Console properties

Prompt

Add seo@agency.example as a Full user to every property in this list: example.com, example.org, shop.example.com. Skip the ones where she already has access and tell me if any property is close to its user limit.
  1. 01

    Read each property's users

    list_users runs for every property in your prompt, so the agent sees who already has access and with which permission before changing anything.

  2. 02

    Skip and flag, never downgrade

    Where the person is already a user, the agent leaves the property alone and says so. A different existing permission is reported, not silently changed, since a verified owner cannot be lowered.

  3. 03

    Check the user limit

    The agent counts the non-owner users on each property and flags one that is near Google's limit of 100, instead of failing halfway through the list.

  4. 04

    Add with the permission you named

    add_user runs per property with the permission you chose and waits for your OK on each call, because it changes who can see the property.

  5. 05

    Report a per-property result

    The agent lists added, already present, refused and over the limit, so you can paste the result into the client onboarding ticket.

What you get back

Example data

seo@agency.example as Full user:
example.com: added (8 non-owner users)
example.org: already a Full user, skipped
shop.example.com: added (97 non-owner users, 3 left before the limit)
Refused: 0

Other ways to ask

  • Remove jane@oldagency.example from every property where she has access, and list the ones she was an owner on.
  • List all users with Owner permission on example.com and example.org.
  • Add this client as a Restricted user to the three properties that start with client-.

What Google Search Console allows, and what to know first

  • Google says you can grant permissions only if you are a property owner, or an owner of a parent property.
  • Google lists three permission levels in Settings: Owner has full control, Full user has view rights to all data and can take some actions, Restricted user has simple view rights on most data.
  • A property can have at most 100 non-owner users; delegated owners can be added until the property reaches 500 verified and delegated owners.
  • Users need a valid Google Account, and an email group cannot be added as a user.
  • A verified owner proved ownership with a token, and their access level cannot be lowered, only removed by removing that token from the site.

add_user asks for your OK by default. To run it on a schedule without you, switch confirmation off for that tool in your dashboard.

Sources: Search Console Help: Users and permissions · Search Console API: resources and methods

Call add_user from a script

curl

curl -X POST https://cotlet.dev/api/v1/google-search-console/users \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $COTLET_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"property":"sc-domain:example.com","email":"seo@agency.example","permission":"full"}'

Example response

{
  "property": "sc-domain:example.com",
  "email": "seo@agency.example",
  "permission": "full",
  "status": "added",
  "non_owner_users": 8
}

MCP: add https://cotlet.dev/mcp/v1 with the same key; the call is google_search_console_write → add_user. Example data.

Schedule it in n8n, Make, Zapier or cron

Google Search Console tools this automation uses

Cotlet Google Search Console tools used to add a user to many Search Console properties
Tool Parameters
list_users property
add_user property, email, permission
All 15 Google Search Console tools with descriptions

Frequently asked questions

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