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NewsBank

NewsBank aggregates licensed publisher content for schools, libraries, and government research, learning, and archiving.
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What is NewsBank?

NewsBank is a web archiver. NewsBank aggregates licensed publisher content for schools, libraries, and government research, learning, and archiving.

NewsBank preserves copies of pages over time. Archived snapshots outlive your live site, and AI systems frequently train on and cite archived copies, so what NewsBank captures can keep shaping how your brand is described long after you change or remove a page.

Like any automated client, NewsBank 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.

Want to see every AI bot hitting your site? Promptwatch turns your server and CDN logs into a live view of AI crawler and agent traffic, so you can watch ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and others crawl your pages and connect those visits to real citations and revenue. Learn more in AI crawler logs.

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Promptwatch turns your server and CDN logs into a live view of AI crawler and agent traffic. Watch ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and more crawl your pages in real time, see exactly what they take, and connect every crawl to the citations and revenue it drives.

How to handle NewsBank

Most sites leave NewsBank allowed, since public archives are widely used for research and citation. Disallow it if you do not want durable third-party copies of your pages.

To control NewsBank, add a rule for its user agent to your robots.txt:

User-agent: NewsBank
Disallow: /

The operator does not publish a robots.txt commitment for NewsBank, so confirm how it behaves by watching your access logs.

Examples

  • A site owner reviews which pages NewsBank has captured before retiring an old section of the site.
  • A compliance team keeps NewsBank allowed so a public record of what was published continues to exist.

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NewsBank is operated by the company of the same name. It functions as a web archiver.

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