YGS Group Falconer Scraper
GoodBotVerifiedBOTFalconer is an automated discovery platform operated by The YGS Group that monitors news and media coverage to provide brands with actionable intelligence and sentiment analysis. Operated by The YGS Group.
What is YGS Group Falconer Scraper?
Falconer is an 'always-on' discovery engine developed by The YGS Group to assist marketing and communications teams in tracking brand-relevant news. By utilizing adaptive crawling and machine learning, the platform identifies high-impact media coverage, filters out duplicate content, and scores stories based on relevance and sentiment. It is designed to transform raw news data into structured, actionable briefs that can be pushed directly into enterprise tools like Salesforce.
Identification
ygs-scraper-botWhy it crawls your site
The bot crawls the web to identify and extract mentions of a brand or specific topics from target publishers. It processes this data to provide users with timely alerts and context-rich summaries, enabling teams to react quickly to media coverage. Operators can verify the bot's activity by reviewing the official documentation at ygscontentlicensing.com/falconer/ or by checking the User-Agent string against the organization's published standards.
Block or allow YGS Group Falconer Scraper
Add a Disallow rule for ygs-scraper-bot in your robots.txt file. You can also block at the server level using your web server configuration or CDN firewall rules to filter requests matching the user-agent string.
# Block YGS Group Falconer Scraper from crawling your entire site User-agent: ygs-scraper-bot Disallow: / # Allow YGS Group Falconer Scraper full access User-agent: ygs-scraper-bot Allow: /
Ensure your robots.txt allows ygs-scraper-bot. Verify requests by checking the user-agent string.
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