scraping@nytimes.com

What is scraping@nytimes.com?

About

NYTimes.com newsroom scraping bot collects publicly available, non-copyrighted data for journalistic projects including election result tracking, COVID-19 data aggregation, and other news analytics initiatives. You can see how often scraping@nytimes.com visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors agent analytics.

Expected Behavior

The behavior of intelligence gatherers depends on the goals of their clients. For example, a client might be interested in brand sentiment, in which case the agent would crawl related social media or blog posts at a more frequent rate than unrelated websites.

Type

Intelligence Gatherer
Searches for useful insights

Detail

Operated By The New York Times
Last Updated 17 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

0%
0% of top websites are blocking scraping@nytimes.com
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Country of Origin

Unknown
scraping@nytimes.com has no known country of origin

Global Traffic

The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Intelligence Gatherers

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Robots.txt

Should I Block scraping@nytimes.com?

Probably not, especially if you benefit from an intelligence gathering service yourself. However, you might choose to block them if you're concerned about things like server resource usage.

How Do I Block scraping@nytimes.com?

⚠️ 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.

You can block scraping@nytimes.com 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.

# robots.txt
# This should block scraping@nytimes.com

User-agent: scraping@nytimes.com
Disallow: /

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