Feedspotbot
Feedspot web crawler for feed discovery
About this crawler
Feedspotbot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Feedspot(?:bot)?\/ in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as feed-reader. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Feedspotbot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.20%
Technical details
- Name
- Feedspotbot
- Pattern
Feedspot(?:bot)?\/- Tags
- feed-reader
- Reference
- https://www.feedspot.com/fs/bot
- Added
- 2018/07/07
- rDNS suffixes
.feedspot.com- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
rDNS verification (FCrDNS)
Verify a request is genuinely Feedspotbot 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.
.feedspot.com
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Feedspotbot/1.0; +http://www.feedspot.com/fs/bot)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Feedspotbot:
User-agent: Feedspotbot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Feedspot(?:bot)?\/ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Feedspot(?:bot)?\\/") {
return 403;
}
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