Who operates FN Legislative and Regulatory Bot?

FN Legislative and Regulatory Bot is operated by FiscalNote Holdings, Inc.. It functions as FiscalNote Holdings, Inc.'s content aggregator.

Does FN Legislative and Regulatory Bot respect robots.txt?

FiscalNote Holdings, Inc. has not published a robots.txt commitment for FN Legislative and Regulatory Bot. Treat its behavior as unconfirmed and watch your access logs to see whether your rules are honored.

Should I block FN Legislative and Regulatory Bot?

It depends on your distribution strategy. Keep FN Legislative and Regulatory Bot allowed to reach the audiences it serves, or disallow it to keep readers on your own site.

FN Legislative and Regulatory Bot - What It Is & How to Handle It

What is FN Legislative and Regulatory Bot?

FN Legislative and Regulatory Bot is FiscalNote Holdings, Inc.'s content aggregator. FN Bot makes targeted rate-limited requests to a variety of publically available legislative and regulatory sources.

FN Legislative and Regulatory Bot collects and redistributes content from across the web, so pages it can reach may be surfaced to audiences well beyond your own site. Aggregated copies also become part of the corpus AI systems draw on, which makes it worth knowing what FN Legislative and Regulatory Bot takes and how often.

Like any automated client, FN Legislative and Regulatory Bot consumes crawl budget and appears in your server and CDN logs. Reviewing those logs alongside your robots.txt rules helps you keep automated traffic deliberate and easy to reason about.

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How to handle FN Legislative and Regulatory Bot

Allow FN Legislative and Regulatory Bot if you want your content distributed through the feeds and apps it supplies. Disallow it if you would rather people reach that content only on your own site.

To control FN Legislative and Regulatory Bot, add a rule for its user agent to your robots.txt:

User-agent: FiscalNote
Disallow: /

FiscalNote Holdings, Inc. does not publish a robots.txt commitment for FN Legislative and Regulatory Bot, so confirm how it behaves by watching your access logs.

Examples

A publisher checks how often FN Legislative and Regulatory Bot pulls new articles and whether the aggregated version links back to the original.
An editor keeps FN Legislative and Regulatory Bot allowed so new posts reach the readers of the apps it supplies.