What is NewsNow?
NewsNow is a web crawler that aggregates news headlines from thousands of sources across the web to provide comprehensive, real-time news coverage through the NewsNow news aggregation service. You can set up Agent Analytics to see when NewsNow visits your website.
Category
| Example User Agent | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0 NewsNow/1.1 |
| Operated By | NewsNowUK |
| Source | Official Website |
| Triggered By | Automated crawl |
| Used for AI Model Training | Not expected |
| Affects AI Chat & Search Visibility | Possibly |
| Expected To Follow Robots.txt | Yes |
Why Is NewsNow Visiting My Website?
NewsNow is adding new or changed pages to its search index. It may have discovered your site through links, a sitemap, or direct submission.
Should I Block NewsNow?
No, unless you want to remove your pages from that search engine. NewsNow supplies its index, so blocking it can eliminate your visibility and organic traffic there. Nearly every website should allow this category. For context, 10% of the top websites we track currently have robots.txt rules for NewsNow.
How Do I Block NewsNow Using Robots.txt?
Add this rule to your robots.txt file to block NewsNow from accessing your website, or use Automatic Robots.txt to block all search engine crawlers at once. You can customize which pages are blocked by swapping out / for a different path.
User-agent: NewsNow # https://knownagents.com/agents/newsnow
Disallow: /Insights for NewsNow
As of October 29, 2026, this data reflects agent visits measured across thousands of websites using Agent Analytics, combined with daily scans of the top 1000 websites and their robots.txt files.
Robots.txt Compliance
Country of Origin
Robots.txt Blocked Percentage
Frequently Asked Questions
What Traffic Patterns Should I Expect From NewsNow?
NewsNow follows an algorithmic schedule shaped by your site's popularity, update cadence, and domain authority. It generally spreads requests across recurring crawl passes, throttles itself to limit server load, and respects crawl rules more reliably than most other bots.
Does NewsNow Follow Robots.txt Rules?
NewsNow is expected to follow robots.txt rules, so a disallow rule is the appropriate first step if you want to block it. Automatic Robots.txt can add and maintain that rule, while Agent Analytics lets you verify whether NewsNow respects it.
Is NewsNow Used for AI Model Training?
Not ordinarily. NewsNow is not categorized as an AI training scraper or data provider, so AI model training is not its expected purpose.
Does Blocking NewsNow Affect AI Search or Citations?
Blocking NewsNow can remove your pages from the search engine it supplies. That may also affect AI products that rely on the same index, but it does not directly control unrelated AI search services.
Does NewsNow Access Private Content?
No special access. NewsNow can reach only content available to anonymous visitors and does not sign in. Make sure sensitive content is not public by mistake.
How Can I Verify a Request From NewsNow?
Agent Analytics tracks NewsNow visits in real time. You can also check your server logs for requests whose user-agent string contains "NewsNow". Look for recurring passes that revisit changed pages and discover new ones. Because NewsNow does not publish a verification method, any client can claim its identity and a log match is only a clue.