Buttondown

feed-reader Buttondown

Buttondown RSS to email converter

About this crawler

Buttondown is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Buttondown in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as feed-reader. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Buttondown traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.

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Technical details

Name
Buttondown
Pattern
Buttondown
Tags
feed-reader
Reference
https://buttondown.com/features
Added
2026/04/26
Instances
1 known sample(s)

Sample User-Agent strings

Buttondown RSS-Feed-Parser/1.0 (https://buttondown.com)

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow Buttondown:

User-agent: Buttondown Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Buttondown [NC] RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

if ($http_user_agent ~* "Buttondown") { return 403; }
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