FreshRSS

feed-reader FreshRSS

FreshRSS feed reader web crawler bot

About this crawler

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

Block-rate · top 25k sites

0.065%
latest snapshot
2026-06-04
matched key: FreshRSS
2026-05-012026-06-040.11%

Technical details

Name
FreshRSS
Pattern
FreshRSS
Tags
feed-reader
Reference
https://freshrss.org
Added
2020/03/16
Instances
1 known sample(s)

Sample User-Agent strings

FreshRSS/1.11.2 (Linux; https://freshrss.org) like Googlebot

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow FreshRSS:

User-agent: FreshRSS Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

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

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

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