News organization newsgathering crawler for reporting support
About this crawler
[email protected] is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern nyt_scraping|scraping@nytimes\.com in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block [email protected] traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.065%
Technical details
- Name
- [email protected]
- Pattern
nyt_scraping|scraping@nytimes\.com- Tags
- seo
- Reference
- https://int.nyt.com/assets/scraping.json
- Added
- 2026/04/17
- Instances
- 2 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/110.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 nyt_scraping/[email protected]
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow [email protected]:
User-agent: [email protected]
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} nyt_scraping|scraping@nytimes\.com [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "nyt_scraping|scraping@nytimes\\.com") {
return 403;
}
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