FeedlyBot
Feed aggregator fetching RSS and Atom feeds for users
About this crawler
FeedlyBot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Feedly(?:Bot)?\/ in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as feed-reader. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block FeedlyBot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.065%
Technical details
- Name
- FeedlyBot
- Pattern
Feedly(?:Bot)?\/- Tags
- feed-reader
- Reference
- https://feedly.com/fetcher.html
- Added
- 2018/06/27
- rDNS suffixes
.feedly.com- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
rDNS verification (FCrDNS)
Verify a request is genuinely FeedlyBot with forward-confirmed reverse DNS: the client IP's PTR record must end in one of the suffixes below and a forward A/AAAA lookup of that hostname must return the same IP. UA strings alone are spoofable; FCrDNS is not.
.feedly.com
Sample User-Agent strings
FeedlyBot/1.0 (http://feedly.com)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow FeedlyBot:
User-agent: FeedlyBot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Feedly(?:Bot)?\/ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Feedly(?:Bot)?\\/") {
return 403;
}
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