newsai
NewsAI crawler for news content aggregation and indexing
About this crawler
newsai is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern newsai\/ in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as ai-crawler, feed-reader. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block newsai traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.065%
Technical details
- Name
- newsai
- Pattern
newsai\/- Tags
- ai-crawler, feed-reader
- Reference
- https://knownagents.com/agents/newsai
- Added
- 2026/04/14
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/140.0.0.0 newsai/1.0 Safari/537.36
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow newsai:
User-agent: newsai
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} newsai\/ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "newsai\\/") {
return 403;
}
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