Overview
NewsBank is a search crawler used for search indexing, URL discovery, page rendering, result freshness, and search-quality checks.
Its primary user-agent pattern is NewsBank; related patterns include NewsBank.com/1.0; NewsBank.comMobile/1.0; a representative HTTP user-agent is NewsBank.com/1.0 NewsBank.comMobile/1.0.
NewsBank is Unverified at the identity-evidence level. The listed identity remains useful for detection, but this record does not currently contain authoritative evidence sufficient to authenticate the identity claim.
Robots.txt behavior is not currently confirmed.
NewsBank 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
NewsBank- Aliases
- NewsBank.com/1.0; NewsBank.comMobile/1.0
- HTTP Agent Examples
NewsBank.com/1.0 NewsBank.comMobile/1.0- Robots.txt Token
NewsBank- Identity Type
- Observed
- Evidence Method
- Treat `NewsBank` as an identity signal only. Confirm it with current operator documentation, cryptographic verification, forward-confirmed reverse DNS, source-network ownership, or other authoritative evidence before trusting the claimed identity.
Classification
- Type
- Search
- Kind
- Crawler
- Family
- NewsBank
- Purpose
- indexing
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- NewsBank is used for search indexing, URL discovery, page rendering, result freshness, and search-quality checks.
- Detection Notes
- NewsBank traffic is primarily detected by the `NewsBank` user-agent pattern; related patterns include `NewsBank.com/1.0; NewsBank.comMobile/1.0`; a representative HTTP user-agent is `NewsBank.com/1.0 NewsBank.comMobile/1.0`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence before trusting the traffic.
- Respects robots.txt
- Unknown
- Spoofing Risk
- NewsBank 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
# robots.txt behavior is unconfirmed. Do not rely on this rule without verification.