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KeldanNewsCrawler

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Icelandic news article crawler for a news search on keldan.is Operated by Keldan.

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Assessment
Search Engine Crawler
Category
BOT
Kind
1
Data sources
AI-generated summary, drawn from Cloudflare, operator docs, and community data

What is KeldanNewsCrawler?

KeldanNewsCrawler is an automated agent operated by the Icelandic entity Keldan. It is designed to systematically traverse the web to collect and index news articles and real-time financial market data, such as stock exchange listings and market trends. By gathering this information, the bot supports Keldan's platform in providing up-to-date financial and news insights to its users.

Helpful — This is a legitimate crawler used for aggregating news and financial market data, which is standard behavior for search and information services.

Identification

Bot name
KeldanNewsCrawler
Operator
Keldan
Category
Search Engine Crawler
Kind
BOT
Verification
Verified bot
Cloudflare slug
keldannewscrawler
User-agent patterns
KeldanNewsCrawler
User-agent string
KeldanNewsCrawler/1.0
Main use cases
News aggregationFinancial market data indexingSearch engine content discovery
Rated Sep 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
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

Why it crawls your site

The bot crawls websites to maintain a comprehensive and current database of Icelandic news and financial information. It processes publicly available content to ensure that market data, such as stock prices and indices, remains accurate within the Keldan ecosystem. Operators can verify the bot's activity by checking the User-Agent string against the official documentation provided at keldan.is.

Block or allow KeldanNewsCrawler

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for KeldanNewsCrawler 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 KeldanNewsCrawler from crawling your entire site
User-agent: KeldanNewsCrawler
Disallow: /

# Allow KeldanNewsCrawler full access
User-agent: KeldanNewsCrawler
Allow: /
Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows KeldanNewsCrawler. Verify requests by checking the user-agent string.

Traffic & trends

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Links & references

Keldan documentation
keldan.is
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Cloudflare Radar: KeldanNewsCrawler
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Data sources

This profile is compiled from the following sources.

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Last updated October 25, 2026

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