FeedBooster

feed-reader FeedBooster

QSensei feed booster crawler

About this crawler

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

Block-rate · top 25k sites

0.13%
latest snapshot
2026-06-04
matched key: FeedBooster
2026-05-012026-06-040.29%

Technical details

Name
FeedBooster
Pattern
FeedBooster
Tags
feed-reader
Reference
http://feeds.qsensei.com
Added
2026/05/09
Instances
1 known sample(s)

Sample User-Agent strings

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; FeedBooster; +http://feeds.qsensei.com)

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow FeedBooster:

User-agent: FeedBooster Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

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

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

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