NetNewsWire
NetNewsWire RSS/Atom feed reader for macOS
About this crawler
NetNewsWire is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern NetNewsWire\/ in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as feed-reader. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block NetNewsWire traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.065%
Technical details
- Name
- NetNewsWire
- Pattern
NetNewsWire\/- Tags
- feed-reader
- Reference
- http://ranchero.com/netnewswire/
- Added
- 2026/05/09
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
NetNewsWire/2.x (Mac OS X; http://ranchero.com/netnewswire/)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow NetNewsWire:
User-agent: NetNewsWire
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} NetNewsWire\/ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "NetNewsWire\\/") {
return 403;
}
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