GnowitNewsbot
Gnowit news web crawler bot
About this crawler
GnowitNewsbot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern GnowitNewsbot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block GnowitNewsbot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.13%
Technical details
- Name
- GnowitNewsbot
- Pattern
GnowitNewsbot- Tags
- seo
- Reference
- https://www.gnowit.com/
- Added
- 2017/10/30
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:49.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/49.0 / GnowitNewsbot / Contact information at http://www.gnowit.com
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow GnowitNewsbot:
User-agent: GnowitNewsbot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} GnowitNewsbot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "GnowitNewsbot") {
return 403;
}
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