User agent "newspaper/0.0.9.8" from IPs owned by Google

Discussion in 'Traffic Analysis' started by Jeffr2014, Apr 9, 2015.

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    I was analyzing my server logs this morning and noticed quite a few GET requests with user agent "newspaper/0.0.9.8". These requests are for different pages in my blog and they come as frequent as twice a minute. I checked the IPs and they seem to belong to Google/GoogleCloud... Any ideas what it is? I searched online for "newspaper/0.0.9.8" but only found that newspaper 0.0.9.8 is a "Simplified python article discovery & extraction." - see this. What it has to do with Google? It is obviously not a Googlebot, GB has different UA.
    Here is the list of some IPs originating these "newspaper/0.0.9.8" requests:
    104.197.21.199
    130.211.137.164
    104.154.40.125
    23.251.152.81
    104.197.21.199
    130.211.153.121
    104.197.46.230
     
    Last edited: Apr 9, 2015
    Jeffr2014, Apr 9, 2015 IP