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Gnowit Newsbot

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Gnowit 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.