AutomatonNewsify 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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