MeraNewsBot is the feed fetcher for Mera News, a mobile news assistant app published by Mera Labs B.V. in the Netherlands. Its documentation states that it requests only the RSS and Atom feed URLs a publisher has already published, once per hour, using If-None-Match and If-Modified-Since conditional headers, and that it does not crawl sites, follow links, render pages or fetch images beyond that single feed URL. The same page states plainly that the bot does not fetch robots.txt, on the stated grounds that it requests only the published feed URL rather than crawling the site. The operator publishes no IP ranges and no reverse DNS hostnames for verification, and no third-party bot catalogue lists this agent.

At a glance

Operator: Mera Labs B.V.
Type: Feed Reader

How Centinel checks it

User agent: The request calls itself this crawler. Anyone can send the same string.

MeraNewsBot publishes nothing Centinel can check a source against, so a match reports the name and leaves the source unconfirmed. The match tokens, verification domains, and address feeds are not published here.

Allowing or blocking it

The crawler object in the /validate response sets access_allowed to true only for a verified source that your tenant allowlists. A policy rule can allow or block this crawler by its category, Feed Reader.

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