PressEngineBot is a bot in the link preview bots category, operated by PressEngine.
The PressEngine Bot verifies coverage created by video games press as genuine and their own creation. When a member of the video games press is granted a review key for a video game they will create an article, known in the industry as "coverage". When they submit a URL to us as "coverage" we automatically verify this URL exists and is viewable. This automated code announces itself as the PressEngine Bot.
Link preview bots fetch a page when someone shares its URL in a chat app or social network, to build the preview card. Blocking them breaks your link previews, so keep them allowed but leave them out of analytics and ad requests.
PressEngineBot identifies itself with this user agent string:
PressEngineBot (+http://pressengine.net/crawl-policy)Anyone 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.
PressEngineBot follows robots.txt, so these rules stop it crawling the paths you choose. robots.txt is a plain text file at the root of your domain, such as https://example.com/robots.txt.
User-agent: PressEngineBot Disallow: /
User-agent: PressEngineBot Disallow: /private/ Disallow: /search
User-agent: PressEngineBot Allow: /blog/ Disallow: /
User-agent: PressEngineBot Allow: / User-agent: * Disallow: /
User-agent: PressEngineBot group, PressEngineBot ignores your User-agent: * rules, so repeat any that should still apply.PressEngineBot from PressEngineBot's user agent; check PressEngine'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.
PressEngineBot fetches pages when your links are shared or syndicated. Keep it allowed so previews and feeds work, but leave it out of page views and ad requests.
Transfon Security for publishersWhen ads or posts are shared, PressEngineBot fetches the landing page. Those hits are not clicks, so keep them out of campaign reports.
Transfon Security for advertisersProduct links shared in chats and feeds are fetched by PressEngineBot. Keep it allowed so previews show the right image and price.
Transfon Security for e-commerceAllow PressEngineBot on public pages so shared links preview well, and keep it off the app.
Transfon Security for SaaS and APIsrobots.txt is a request, not an enforcement. Transfon Security shows PressEngineBot 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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PressEngineBot is a bot in the link preview bots category, operated by PressEngine. The PressEngine Bot verifies coverage created by video games press as genuine and their own creation. When a member of the video games press is granted a review key for a video game they will create an article, known in the industry as "coverage". When they submit a URL to us as "coverage" we automatically verify this URL exists and is viewable. This automated code announces itself as the PressEngine Bot.
Yes. PressEngineBot follows robots.txt, so a Disallow rule for the PressEngineBot user agent stops it from crawling the paths you list.
Add "User-agent: PressEngineBot" followed by "Disallow: /" to the robots.txt file at the root of your site. To enforce it, block requests whose user agent contains "PressEngineBot" at your WAF. In Transfon Security that is one User Agent block rule.
No. robots.txt is voluntary, so PressEngineBot may not follow it, and anyone can send PressEngineBot's user agent, so a fake PressEngineBot ignores your rule. Enforce the rule where requests arrive, at your WAF, and check the source network.
Link preview bots fetch a page when someone shares its URL in a chat app or social network, to build the preview card. Blocking them breaks your link previews, so keep them allowed but leave them out of analytics and ad requests.
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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