NewsBank is a bot in the web archivers category, operated by NewsBank.
NewsBank aggregates licensed publisher content for schools, libraries, and government research, learning, and archiving.
Archivers save copies of pages to preserve the history of the web. Archived copies can be read outside your paywall or ads. Decide whether long term preservation matters more for your content.
Sample user agent strings sent by NewsBank:
NewsBank.com/1.0NewsBank.comMobile/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 NewsBank 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: NewsBank Disallow: /
User-agent: NewsBank Disallow: /private/ Disallow: /search
User-agent: NewsBank Allow: /blog/ Disallow: /
User-agent: NewsBank Allow: / User-agent: * Disallow: /
User-agent: NewsBank group, NewsBank ignores your User-agent: * rules, so repeat any that should still apply.NewsBank from NewsBank's user agent; check NewsBank'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.
Allow NewsBank if it is a service you use, and keep its visits out of page views and ad requests either way.
Transfon Security for publishersNewsBank is not a person. Exclude it from campaign and conversion data so reports reflect real visitors.
Transfon Security for advertisersAllow NewsBank only if it works for your store, and keep it away from cart and checkout.
Transfon Security for e-commerceIf NewsBank is a service you use, allow it on the endpoints it needs and block it elsewhere.
Transfon Security for SaaS and APIsrobots.txt is a request, not an enforcement. Transfon Security shows NewsBank 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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NewsBank is a bot in the web archivers category, operated by NewsBank. NewsBank aggregates licensed publisher content for schools, libraries, and government research, learning, and archiving.
We have not confirmed whether NewsBank 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: NewsBank" followed by "Disallow: /" to the robots.txt file at the root of your site. To enforce it, block requests whose user agent contains "NewsBank" at your WAF. In Transfon Security that is one User Agent block rule.
No. robots.txt is voluntary, so NewsBank may not follow it, and anyone can send NewsBank's user agent, so a fake NewsBank ignores your rule. Enforce the rule where requests arrive, at your WAF, and check the source network.
Archivers save copies of pages to preserve the history of the web. Archived copies can be read outside your paywall or ads. Decide whether long term preservation matters more for your content.
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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