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Hootsuite-WebFeed
Hootsuite social media feed crawler
About this crawler
Hootsuite-WebFeed is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Hootsuite-WebFeed in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as social-preview. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Hootsuite-WebFeed traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
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Technical details
- Name
- Hootsuite-WebFeed
- Pattern
Hootsuite-WebFeed- Tags
- social-preview
- Added
- 2026/05/09
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; U; Hootsuite-WebFeed/1.0; mailto:[email protected])
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Hootsuite-WebFeed:
User-agent: Hootsuite-WebFeed
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Hootsuite-WebFeed [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Hootsuite-WebFeed") {
return 403;
}
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