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Asked: 2026-06-14T07:05:33+00:00

In my site I have: … <script type=text/javascript src=https://www.google.com/jsapi></script> … The script above is

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In my site I have:

...
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://www.google.com/jsapi"></script>
...

The script above is the Google script to load up other resources dynamically.
(eg Google charts API)

This works 99.99% of the time.
However, I just got a client that for some reasons got his company restricting access to google.com.

As a consequence of this my website simply threw a JavaScript error.

Now I know how to handle that, and I can check if window.Google exists.
but my question is

“what’s the standard way to deal with this? “

In other words if you embed 3rd party JavaScript how best do you deal with their JS not available?

NOTE: VERY IMPORTANT

You can not host the chart code locally or on an intranet.

SEE FAQ from Google: https://developers.google.com/chart/interactive/faq#localdownload

Can I download and host the chart code locally, or on an intranet?

Sorry; our terms of service do not allow you to download and save or
host the Google.load or Google.visualization code.

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  1. Editorial Team

    The solution is that your client’s company review their content filtering policies. Google are quite clear in their previous answer concerning offline access:

    …your computer must have live access to http://www.google.com/jsapi in order to use charts.

    You are using a third-party solution according to their terms and conditions, which naturally imposes limits on how that solution may be used by your clients. You need to stand firm or find a more liberally-licensed solution. (At any rate, you are more likely to succeed at convincing your client’s IT department than petitioning Google to change their TOS.)

    For the more general case of third party JS APIs that may not load but for which you are allowed to keep a local copy on your server, see this question.

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