Newsify Feed Fetcher retrieves RSS and Atom feeds for Newsify, a free news and RSS reader for Apple platforms and the web. The user agent embeds the number of Newsify accounts subscribed to that feed and a per feed URL of the form http://www.newsify.co/site/ID/SLUG, so the advertised address differs from site to site; that address resolves to the Newsify sign in page rather than to crawler documentation. Fetching is performed server side by the newsify.co service on behalf of account holders, and no IP ranges or reverse DNS hostnames are published.

At a glance

Operator: Newsify
Type: Feed Reader

How Centinel checks it

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

Newsify Feed Fetcher 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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