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LobbyNewsBot
GoodBotVerifiedBOTFetches feeds and one article per story for Lobby, a Hebrew gaming news site. Obeys robots.txt and Crawl-delay.
Identification
Bot name
LobbyNewsBot
Category
Feed Fetcher
Kind
BOT
Verification
Verified bot
Cloudflare slug
lobbynewsbot
User-agent patterns
LobbyNewsBotUser-agent strings
LobbyNewsBot/0.2 (+https://www.lobby-news.co.il/bot; Hebrew gaming news, links back to sources)
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; LobbyNewsBot/0.2; +https://www.lobby-news.co.il/bot)
Rated Oct 27, 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
- I wonder if it will actually respect the robots.txt this time. | Hacker News
- google ignoring robots.txt ? - Google Search Central Community
- Meta Has New Web-Crawling Bots That Sneakily Get Around Robots.txt - Business Insider
- robots.txt - Wikipedia
- check your robots.txt before you block "AI bots " you might be nuking your visibility across half the AI ecosystem by accident : r/AI_SearchOptimization
Block or allow LobbyNewsBot
Block it
Add a Disallow rule for LobbyNewsBot 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 LobbyNewsBot from crawling your entire site User-agent: LobbyNewsBot Disallow: / # Allow LobbyNewsBot full access User-agent: LobbyNewsBot Allow: /
Allow & verify
Ensure your robots.txt allows LobbyNewsBot. 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 27, 2026
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