NewsGator
NewsGator feed aggregator
About this crawler
NewsGator is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern NewsGator in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as feed-reader. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block NewsGator traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.065%
Technical details
- Name
- NewsGator
- Pattern
NewsGator- Tags
- feed-reader
- Reference
- http://www.newsgator.com
- Added
- 2026/05/09
- Instances
- 2 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
NewsGator/2.0 Bot (http://www.newsgator.com)
NewsGator/2.5 (http://www.newsgator.com; Microsoft Windows NT 5.1.2600.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322.2032)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow NewsGator:
User-agent: NewsGator
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} NewsGator [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "NewsGator") {
return 403;
}
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