Overview
NewsBlur is a feed fetcher used for RSS or Atom feed polling, syndication refresh, subscription delivery, and content update checks.
Its primary user-agent pattern is NewsBlur; a representative HTTP user-agent is NewsBlur Feed Fetcher.
NewsBlur 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.
NewsBlur can usually be allowed after confirming the source and monitoring request volume.
Identity
- User-Agent
NewsBlur- HTTP Agent Examples
NewsBlur Feed Fetcher- Robots.txt Token
NewsBlur- Identity Type
- Observed
- Evidence Method
- Treat `NewsBlur` 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
- Feed
- Kind
- Fetcher
- Family
- NewsBlur
- Purpose
- feed-fetch
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- NewsBlur is used for RSS or Atom feed polling, syndication refresh, subscription delivery, and content update checks.
- Detection Notes
- NewsBlur traffic is primarily detected by the `NewsBlur` user-agent pattern; a representative HTTP user-agent is `NewsBlur Feed Fetcher`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence before trusting the traffic.
- Respects robots.txt
- Unknown
- Spoofing Risk
- NewsBlur has medium spoofing risk because user-agent strings can be copied; pair the match with DNS, IP, behavior, or operator evidence.
- Risk
- Safe
- Recommended Handling
- Depends
Rules and controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
# robots.txt behavior is unconfirmed. Do not rely on this rule without verification.