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NewsNow

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The NewsNow bot is the web crawler for the news aggregator service NewsNow. Operated by NewsNowUK.

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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 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.

Helpful — Verified, safe crawler. Respects robots.txt and provides operator documentation.

Identification

Bot name
NewsNow
Operator
NewsNowUK
Category
Search Engine Crawler
Kind
BOT
Verification
Verified bot
Cloudflare slug
newsnow
User-agent patterns
NewsNow
User-agent string
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT) NewsNow/1.0
Main use cases
Web page indexingSearch result rankingContent discoverySitemap processing

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

Block it

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: /
Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows NewsNow. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to NewsNowUK's documentation.

Traffic & trends

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Data sources

This profile is compiled from the following sources.

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Last updated July 26, 2026