KeldanNewsCrawler is a bot in the search engine crawlers category, operated by Keldan ehf..
Icelandic news article crawler for a news search on keldan.is
Search engine crawlers index your pages so they can appear in search results. Keep the genuine ones allowed and verify them, because fake search crawlers are one of the most common disguises for scrapers.
KeldanNewsCrawler identifies itself with this user agent string:
KeldanNewsCrawler/1.0Anyone can copy a user agent string. Transfon Security also checks where each request comes from, so a request that claims to be a known crawler but comes from the wrong network is treated as a fake, not as the real crawler.
We have not confirmed whether KeldanNewsCrawler follows robots.txt. Add a rule, then check your logs to see that it stopped. robots.txt is a plain text file at the root of your domain, such as https://example.com/robots.txt.
User-agent: KeldanNewsCrawler Disallow: /
User-agent: KeldanNewsCrawler Disallow: /private/ Disallow: /search
User-agent: KeldanNewsCrawler Allow: /blog/ Disallow: /
User-agent: KeldanNewsCrawler Allow: / User-agent: * Disallow: /
User-agent: KeldanNewsCrawler group, KeldanNewsCrawler ignores your User-agent: * rules, so repeat any that should still apply.KeldanNewsCrawler from KeldanNewsCrawler's user agent; check Keldan ehf.'s own documentation if it publishes a different robots.txt name.Treat robots.txt as a statement of your policy, and enforce it where requests arrive.
KeldanNewsCrawler brings search traffic, so keep the real one allowed. Fake KeldanNewsCrawler requests are a common cover for scrapers, so verify it by network rather than by name.
Transfon Security for publishersSearch crawlers fetch landing pages to check them. Keep KeldanNewsCrawler allowed, but out of campaign and conversion data.
Transfon Security for advertisersKeldanNewsCrawler indexes products for search results. Allow it, and block impersonators that use its name to scrape prices.
Transfon Security for e-commerceAllow KeldanNewsCrawler on marketing and docs pages, and keep it off signed-in app pages it cannot use.
Transfon Security for SaaS and APIsrobots.txt is a request, not an enforcement. Transfon Security shows KeldanNewsCrawler by name in the Top Bots report, so you can see how often it visits and which pages it reads. Block or allow it with a User Agent rule, or slow it down with a rate limit decision rule.
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KeldanNewsCrawler is a bot in the search engine crawlers category, operated by Keldan ehf.. Icelandic news article crawler for a news search on keldan.is
We have not confirmed whether KeldanNewsCrawler follows robots.txt. Add a robots.txt rule, then check your logs to see that it stopped, and block it by user agent if it did not.
Add "User-agent: KeldanNewsCrawler" followed by "Disallow: /" to the robots.txt file at the root of your site. To enforce it, block requests whose user agent contains "KeldanNewsCrawler" at your WAF. In Transfon Security that is one User Agent block rule.
No. robots.txt is voluntary, so KeldanNewsCrawler may not follow it, and anyone can send KeldanNewsCrawler's user agent, so a fake KeldanNewsCrawler ignores your rule. Enforce the rule where requests arrive, at your WAF, and check the source network.
Search engine crawlers index your pages so they can appear in search results. Keep the genuine ones allowed and verify them, because fake search crawlers are one of the most common disguises for scrapers.
Transfon Security identifies every bot in this directory in your traffic reports, flags fake search crawlers, and lets you allow, block or rate limit each bot.
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