AllAfrica
recommended: observeAllAfrica is a news aggregation crawler that systematically collects content from over 100 African news organizations and institutions to distribute pan-African news and information through the AllAfrica.com platform.
What it does
AllAfrica usually makes a single request within seconds of a URL being shared, without crawling further. Traffic rises and falls with sharing activity, so a widely circulated link can produce a sharp burst of fetches.
How to identify it
User-agent contains any of:
AllAfrica
robots.txt
Well-behaved crawlers honor robots.txt. To control AllAfrica:
Allow full access
User-agent: AllAfrica
Allow: /Block entirely
User-agent: AllAfrica
Disallow: /
Grey-area scrapers ignore robots.txt. Botscope enforces your policy at the edge or origin regardless —
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