NewsBlur

What is NewsBlur?

About

NewsBlur is a web crawler that fetches RSS feeds and web content for its personal news reader service, collecting articles from subscribed websites and blogs to deliver real-time updates to users' newsfeeds. You can see how often NewsBlur visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors agent analytics.

Expected Behavior

Fetchers visit websites on-demand. They're normally dispatched by apps to present metadata about a link (e.g. the title and thumbnail image) to a user.

Type

Fetcher

Fetches web content on behalf of an app

Detail

Operated By	NewsBlur
Last Updated	9 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

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Country of Origin

Finland

NewsBlur normally visits from Finland

Global Traffic

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Fetchers

Top Visited Website Categories

Books and Literature

Reference

Internet and Telecom

Arts and Entertainment

Games

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Robots.txt

Should I Block NewsBlur?

Probably not. If you block a fetcher, it won't be able to fetch the metadata it needs to display a link preview. Fewer people will click on the link to your website without this.

How Do I Block NewsBlur?

⚠️ Manual Robots.txt Edits Are Not Scalable

New agents are created every day. Instead, serve a continuously updating robots.txt that blocks new agents automatically.

Set Up Automatic Robots.txt

You can block NewsBlur or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt. Set up Dark Visitors agent analytics to check whether it's actually following them.

User Agent String NewsBlur Page Fetcher - 4 subscribers - https://www.newsblur.com/site/8035915/cadences-weblog ("Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/14.0.1 Safari/605.1.15")

# robots.txt
# This should block NewsBlur

User-agent: NewsBlur
Disallow: /