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Googlebot-News
Google's news-specific web crawling bot for Google News indexing
About this crawler
Googlebot-News is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Googlebot-News in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as search-engine. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Googlebot-News traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.85%
Technical details
- Name
- Googlebot-News
- Pattern
Googlebot-News- Tags
- search-engine
- rDNS suffixes
.1e100.net,.googlebot.com,.googleusercontent.com- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
rDNS verification (FCrDNS)
Verify a request is genuinely Googlebot-News with forward-confirmed reverse DNS: the client IP's PTR record must end in one of the suffixes below and a forward A/AAAA lookup of that hostname must return the same IP. UA strings alone are spoofable; FCrDNS is not.
.1e100.net.googlebot.com.googleusercontent.com
Sample User-Agent strings
Googlebot-News
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Googlebot-News:
User-agent: Googlebot-News
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Googlebot-News [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Googlebot-News") {
return 403;
}
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