newsharecounts

social-preview newsharecounts

NewShareCounts web crawler for sharing

About this crawler

newsharecounts is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern newsharecounts in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as social-preview. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block newsharecounts traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.

Block-rate · top 25k sites

0.065%
latest snapshot
2026-06-04
matched key: newsharecounts
2026-05-012026-06-040.11%

Technical details

Name
newsharecounts
Pattern
newsharecounts
Tags
social-preview
Reference
http://newsharecounts.com/crawler
Added
2017/09/30
Instances
1 known sample(s)

Sample User-Agent strings

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; NewShareCounts.com/1.0; +http://newsharecounts.com/crawler)

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow newsharecounts:

User-agent: newsharecounts Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} newsharecounts [NC] RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

if ($http_user_agent ~* "newsharecounts") { return 403; }
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