FeedValidator
Feed validator web crawler for RSS validation
About this crawler
FeedValidator is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern FeedValidator in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as monitoring. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block FeedValidator traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.065%
Technical details
- Name
- FeedValidator
- Pattern
FeedValidator- Tags
- monitoring
- Reference
- https://validator.w3.org/services
- Added
- 2018/10/14
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
FeedValidator/1.3
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow FeedValidator:
User-agent: FeedValidator
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} FeedValidator [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "FeedValidator") {
return 403;
}
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