Identification
Bot name
AKNewsBot
Category
Feed Fetcher
Kind
BOT
Verification
Verified bot
Cloudflare slug
aknewsbot
User-agent patterns
AKNewsBotUser-agent string
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; AKNewsBot/1.0) Safari/537.36
Rated Oct 17, 2026 from public evidence
How we rated this bot
Verified by Cloudflare, which confirms who runs it, with no widespread reports of abuse.
Names itself honestly
Yes
Verified by Cloudflare
Yes
Says it follows robots.txt and opt-outs
Not stated
Ignores site rules
None found
Disguises itself or evades blocks
None found
Overloads sites
None found
How widely people complain
No complaint about this bot in the evidence
Reddit discussion
There is no Reddit discussion of this bot in the evidence
What we read
- AI Crawl Control robots.txt injection ignores settings across 4 zones (Disallow per - Application Security / Bot Management - Cloudflare Community
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- Meta Has New Web-Crawling Bots That Sneakily Get Around Robots.txt - Business Insider
- Google Gemini Notebook Bot Ignores Robots.txt | Savvy Dealer
Block or allow AKNewsBot
Block it
Add a Disallow rule for AKNewsBot 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 AKNewsBot from crawling your entire site User-agent: AKNewsBot Disallow: / # Allow AKNewsBot full access User-agent: AKNewsBot Allow: /
Allow & verify
Ensure your robots.txt allows AKNewsBot. Verify requests by checking the user-agent string.
Traffic & trends
Cloudflare Radar traffic
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Links & references
Data sources
This profile is compiled from the following sources.
CloudflareRadar
Last updated October 25, 2026
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