NewsNow
UK news aggregation platform crawler for content discovery
About this crawler
NewsNow is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern NewsNow\/ in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block NewsNow traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
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Technical details
- Name
- NewsNow
- Pattern
NewsNow\/- Tags
- seo
- Reference
- https://www.newsnow.co.uk/h/
- Added
- 2026/04/17
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT) NewsNow/1.0
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow NewsNow:
User-agent: NewsNow
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} NewsNow\/ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "NewsNow\\/") {
return 403;
}
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