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.
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Detail
Operated By | NewsBlur |
Last Updated | 1 day ago |
Insights
Top Website Robots.txts
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Global Traffic
The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Fetchers
Top Visited Website Categories
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?
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 Feed Fetcher - 8 subscribers - https://www.newsblur.com/site/5910566/lili-saintcrow ("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: /