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TheElectionNewspaperBot
GoodBotVerifiedBOTElection-news index crawler: fetches feeds and articles, shows headline, excerpt and link back. Honours robots.txt.
Identification
Bot name
TheElectionNewspaperBot
Category
Feed Fetcher
Kind
BOT
Verification
Verified bot
Cloudflare slug
theelectionnewspaperbot
User-agent patterns
TheElectionNewspaperBot-TextTheElectionNewspaperBot/1.0User-agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; TheElectionNewspaperBot/1.0; +mailto:[email protected]; feeds)
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; TheElectionNewspaperBot-Text/1.0; +mailto:[email protected]; article text)
Rated Oct 23, 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
Yes
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
- google ignoring robots.txt ? - Google Search Central Community
- What Is Robots.txt? | How a Robots.txt File Works
- I wonder if it will actually respect the robots.txt this time. | Hacker News
- Meta Has New Web-Crawling Bots That Sneakily Get Around Robots.txt - Business Insider
- Googlebot ignoring robots.txt and nofollow - Google Search and SEO forum at WebmasterWorld - WebmasterWorld
Block or allow TheElectionNewspaperBot
Block it
Add a Disallow rule for TheElectionNewspaperBot-Text 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 TheElectionNewspaperBot from crawling your entire site User-agent: TheElectionNewspaperBot-Text Disallow: / # Allow TheElectionNewspaperBot full access User-agent: TheElectionNewspaperBot-Text Allow: /
Allow & verify
Ensure your robots.txt allows TheElectionNewspaperBot-Text. Verify requests by checking the user-agent string.
Traffic & trends
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Links & references
Data sources
This profile is compiled from the following sources.
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Last updated October 25, 2026
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