NewsBank
recommended: allow
Operated by NewsBank
archiver
NewsBank aggregates licensed publisher content for schools, libraries, and government research, learning, and archiving.
How to identify it
User-agent contains any of:
NewsBank
robots.txt
Well-behaved crawlers honor robots.txt. To control NewsBank:
Allow full access
User-agent: NewsBank
Allow: /Block entirely
User-agent: NewsBank
Disallow: /
Grey-area scrapers ignore robots.txt. Botscope enforces your policy at the edge or origin regardless —
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