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All Africa Crawler

Name: All Africa Crawler
Author: AllAfrica Global Media

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AllAfrica Global Media produces, aggregates and distributes news from across Africa, relying on agreements with more than 140 news organizations and over 500 other institutions and individuals. The AllAfrica NewsBot scrapes content from sites with whom AllAfrica has written agreements, or whose content is available without licensing restrictions or otherwise freely distributable. In all cases, the author and institution is credited in full. Operated by AllAfrica Global Media.

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Assessment

Search Engine Crawler

What is All Africa Crawler?

All Africa Crawler is a web crawler operated by AllAfrica Global Media. AllAfrica Global Media produces, aggregates and distributes news from across Africa, relying on agreements with more than 140 news organizations and over 500 other institutions and individuals. The AllAfrica NewsBot scrapes content from sites with whom AllAfrica has written agreements, or whose content is available without licensing restrictions or otherwise freely distributable. In all cases, the author and institution is credited in full. As a search engine crawler, it systematically indexes web pages to build and maintain search engine results.

Helpful — Verified, safe crawler. Respects robots.txt and provides operator documentation.

Identification

Bot name

All Africa Crawler

Operator

AllAfrica Global Media

Why it crawls your site

All Africa Crawler crawls websites to index web pages and build search engine results. It is operated by AllAfrica Global Media as part of their search engine infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

Block or allow All Africa Crawler

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for AllAfrica 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 All Africa Crawler from crawling your entire site
User-agent: AllAfrica
Disallow: /

# Allow All Africa Crawler full access
User-agent: AllAfrica
Allow: /

Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows AllAfrica. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to AllAfrica Global Media's documentation.