Gnowit Newsbot
Listed onlyGnowit is an Ottawa-based media and government monitoring company whose crawler continuously fetches news, government, and other public web sources to power real-time monitoring, summarization, and analytics for its clients.
Operated by Gnowit · Official documentation
User agents
Patterns this directory matches, with real observed strings.
- regexGnowitNewsbot
- observedMozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:49.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/49.0 / GnowitNewsbot / Contact information at http://www.gnowit.com
How to verify
No verification recipe published by the operator.
Good Bot Practices scorecard
- Identifies honestly
Stable UA token documented (1 pattern)
- Verifiable
Operator publishes no verification path
- Respects robots.txt
Service traffic you configured — robots.txt does not apply
- Behaves
Crawl-rate behavior is operator-declared; not machine-verifiable from this dataset
- Reachable operator
Operator and documentation published
Measured against the Good Bot Practices.