Overview
news-please is a crawler framework used for Automated website access, content retrieval, or integration activity associated with the listed operator.
Its primary user-agent pattern is news-please; related patterns include news-please crawler; newspipeline.
news-please is not independently verified with Medium confidence. The identity type is Documented, and the evidence basis is observed traffic patterns and user-agent evidence.
Robots.txt behavior is not currently confirmed.
news-please should be reviewed against site policy, source evidence, crawl rate, and requested paths before a permanent allow or block rule is created.
Identity
- User-Agent Pattern
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news-please - Aliases
- news-please crawler; newspipeline
- HTTP Agent Examples
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news-please - Robots Token
- news-please
- Identity Type
- Documented
- Evidence Method
- Verify news-please by matching `news-please` to observed traffic patterns and user-agent evidence, then checking reverse DNS, IP ownership, request behavior, and crawl consistency.
Classification
- Type
- Crawler framework
- Kind
- Crawler framework
- Family
- news-please
- Purpose
- News extraction
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- news-please is used for Automated website access, content retrieval, or integration activity associated with the listed operator.
- Detection Notes
- news-please traffic is primarily detected by the `news-please` user-agent pattern; related patterns include `news-please crawler; newspipeline`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence before trusting the traffic.
- Respects robots.txt
- Unknown
- Spoofing Risk
- news-please has medium spoofing risk because user-agent strings can be copied; pair the match with DNS, IP, behavior, or operator evidence.
- Risk
- Neutral
- Recommended Handling
- Depends
Rules and controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
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# robots.txt behavior is unconfirmed. Do not rely on this rule without verification.
Relationships
- Operator
- news-please Checked 2026-06-22
Relationships without an Evidence link are normalized from the canonical directory record. They should not be interpreted as independent proof of physical presence or request origin.