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New York Times Newsgathering

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Coders within NYT's newsroom collect public, non-copyright data, e.g. our U.S. Elections pages and Covid-19 trackers. Operated by The New York Times.

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What is New York Times Newsgathering?

New York Times Newsgathering is a web crawler operated by The New York Times. Coders within NYT's newsroom collect public, non-copyright data, e.g. our U.S. Elections pages and Covid-19 trackers.

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

Identification

Bot name

New York Times Newsgathering

Operator

The New York Times

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

New York Times Newsgathering crawls websites to collect and process web content. It is operated by The New York Times as part of their web crawling infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

Block or allow New York Times Newsgathering

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for scraping@nytimes\.com 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 New York Times Newsgathering from crawling your entire site
User-agent: scraping@nytimes\.com
Disallow: /

# Allow New York Times Newsgathering full access
User-agent: scraping@nytimes\.com
Allow: /

Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows scraping@nytimes\.com. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to The New York Times's documentation.