hrn-bot
GoodBotVerifiedBOTA specialized crawler for the Human Rights News aggregator that fetches RSS/Atom feeds and article metadata to link users to original human-rights reporting. Operated by Human Rights News.
What is hrn-bot?
hrn-bot is the official crawler for Human Rights News, a community-ranked platform dedicated to human-rights reporting. Unlike general-purpose crawlers, it is designed to index public RSS feeds and extract minimal metadata—such as titles and thumbnails—to direct traffic back to the original publishers. The bot is strictly non-commercial and explicitly prohibits the use of its collected data for AI training or content republication.
Identification
How we rated this bot
Verified by Cloudflare, which confirms who runs it, with no widespread reports of abuse.
What we read
Why it crawls your site
The bot crawls to maintain an up-to-date index of human-rights news, ensuring that readers can discover and access original reporting from various organizations. It operates with high transparency, utilizing HTTP Message Signatures (RFC 9421) to allow site owners to cryptographically verify its identity. By adhering to robots.txt and maintaining a polite crawl rate, it aims to provide a sustainable discovery service without placing undue load on the target servers.
Block or allow hrn-bot
Add a Disallow rule for hrn-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 hrn-bot from crawling your entire site User-agent: hrn-bot Disallow: / # Allow hrn-bot full access User-agent: hrn-bot Allow: /
Ensure your robots.txt allows hrn-bot. Verify requests by checking the user-agent string.
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