What is newspaper?
newspaper is a scraper. Agent Analytics can track when it visits your website.
Category
Expected Behavior
newspaper behaves however its operator configured it, and scrapers as a category are the least polite bots on the web. Expect anything from slow careful extraction to rapid page hammering, robots.txt ignored, and user agent strings that change when blocked. Watch its volume and speed rather than trusting its label.
Overview
| Expected To Follow Robots.txt | Yes |
| Insights Last Updated | July 6, 2026 |
Robots.txt Blocked Percentage
Country of Origin
Robots.txt Blocking Trend
As of July 6, 2026, 0% of top websites block newspaper in their robots.txt files.
Overall Scraper Traffic
As of July 6, 2026, 0.5% of all web traffic came from scrapers.
Top Visited Website Categories
This data reflects agent visits measured across thousands of websites using Agent Analytics, combined with daily scans of the world's top 1000 websites and their robots.txt files.
newspaper's User Agent
| User Agent | newspaper/0.2.8 |
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How To Block newspaper
Add this rule to your robots.txt file to block newspaper from accessing your entire website. You can customize which pages are blocked by swapping out / for a different path.
User-agent: newspaper # https://knownagents.com/agents/newspaper
Disallow: /Frequently Asked Questions
Should I Block newspaper?
Often yes. newspaper extracts content at scale, and scrapers in this category commonly republish or resell what they take. There is rarely an upside for the website being scraped, and copies of your content elsewhere can compete with your own pages in search. Almost none of the top websites we track have robots.txt rules for newspaper right now.
Does newspaper Respect Robots.txt?
Yes. newspaper is expected to honor robots.txt rules, so a disallow rule is the right first move. Automatic Robots.txt adds and maintains that rule for you, and Agent Analytics confirms newspaper actually honors it.
Does newspaper Access Private Content?
Assume newspaper will try. Scrapers routinely ignore robots.txt, and some go after paywalled or gated content when it has value. Real authentication stops most of them. Politeness conventions stop almost none of them.
Why Is newspaper Visiting My Website?
Your site has data newspaper's operator wants, like prices, listings, contact details, or articles. Scrapers target sites deliberately, so repeated visits mean your content specifically is the goal.
How Can I Tell if newspaper Is Visiting My Website?
Agent Analytics tracks newspaper visits in real time alongside every other known AI agent, crawler, and scraper. You can also check your server logs for requests whose user agent string contains "newspaper". Look for fast sequential requests across many pages. Keep in mind that newspaper doesn't publish a verification method, so any client can claim its user agent string and a log match is a hint rather than proof.