NewsNow
GoodBotVerifiedBOTThe NewsNow bot is the web crawler for the news aggregator service NewsNow. Operated by NewsNowUK.
What is NewsNow?
NewsNow is a web crawler operated by NewsNowUK. The NewsNow bot is the web crawler for the news aggregator service NewsNow. As a search engine crawler, it systematically indexes web pages to build and maintain search engine results.
Identification
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Verified by Cloudflare, which confirms who runs it, with no widespread reports of abuse.
What we read
Why it crawls your site
NewsNow crawls websites to index web pages and build search engine results. It is operated by NewsNowUK as part of their search engine infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.
Block or allow NewsNow
Add a Disallow rule for NewsNow 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 NewsNow from crawling your entire site User-agent: NewsNow Disallow: / # Allow NewsNow full access User-agent: NewsNow Allow: /
Ensure your robots.txt allows NewsNow. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to NewsNowUK's documentation.
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