GnowitNewsbot
Last updated 1 day ago.
What is GnowitNewsbot?
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Comprehensive Advocacy, Compliance and Policy Solutions that Track Canadian and US Government Information. Global Media Monitoring.
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Did you find Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:49.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/49.0 / GnowitNewsbot / Contact information at http://www.gnowit.com in your logs?
If you've seen Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:49.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/49.0 / GnowitNewsbot / Contact information at http://www.gnowit.com in your website logs, it indicates that GnowitNewsbot has been visiting your site. This agent string is one of the known identifiers for this bot.
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Expected Behavior
This bot visits websites for various purposes including content analysis, data collection, or automated tasks. Its behavior may vary depending on its specific function and configuration.
Note: This bot has been marked as dormant, meaning it hasn't been actively seen in the wild recently. It may still visit websites occasionally or could become active again in the future.
Should I Block GnowitNewsbot?
This bot is marked as non-compliant, which may mean it doesn't respect robots.txt or engages in aggressive crawling behavior. You may want to consider blocking it if it's causing issues for your site.
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Get Automated Bot ManagementHow Do I Block GnowitNewsbot?
You can block this bot or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt file. Use Spyglasses analytics to check whether it's actually following your rules.
User Agent Tokens
GnowitNewsbotShould match instances of this botrobots.txt
# robots.txt # This should block GnowitNewsbot User-agent: GnowitNewsbot Disallow: /
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