AutomatonNewsify Feed Fetcher

monitoring Automaton|Newsify Feed Fetcher

Automaton feed fetcher monitoring

About this crawler

AutomatonNewsify Feed Fetcher is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Automaton|Newsify Feed Fetcher in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as monitoring. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block AutomatonNewsify Feed Fetcher traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.

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Technical details

Name
AutomatonNewsify Feed Fetcher
Pattern
Automaton|Newsify Feed Fetcher
Tags
monitoring
Reference
https://knownagents.com/agents/automaton
Added
2026/04/26
Instances
1 known sample(s)

Sample User-Agent strings

Newsify Feed Fetcher - 3 subscribers - http://www.newsify.co/site/899429/automaton-twocanoes-software (Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_1) AppleWebKit/534.48.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Safari/534.48.3)

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow AutomatonNewsify Feed Fetcher:

User-agent: AutomatonNewsify Feed Fetcher Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Automaton|Newsify Feed Fetcher [NC] RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

if ($http_user_agent ~* "Automaton|Newsify Feed Fetcher") { return 403; }
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