Miniflux

feed-reader Miniflux\/

Miniflux is a minimalist and opinionated feed reader.

About this crawler

Miniflux is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Miniflux\/ in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as feed-reader. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Miniflux 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: Miniflux
2026-05-012026-06-040.11%

Technical details

Name
Miniflux
Pattern
Miniflux\/
Tags
feed-reader
Reference
https://miniflux.app/
Added
2018/07/07
Instances
9 known sample(s)

Sample User-Agent strings

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Miniflux/2.0.x-dev; +https://miniflux.net)
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Miniflux/2.0.3; +https://miniflux.net)
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Miniflux/2.0.7; +https://miniflux.net)
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Miniflux/2.0.10; +https://miniflux.net)
Mozilla/5.0 (compatibl$; Miniflux/2.0.x-dev; +https://miniflux.app)
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Miniflux/2.0.11; +https://miniflux.app)
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Miniflux/2.0.12; +https://miniflux.app)
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Miniflux/ae1dc1a; +https://miniflux.app)
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Miniflux/3b6e44c; +https://miniflux.app)

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow Miniflux:

User-agent: Miniflux Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

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

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

if ($http_user_agent ~* "Miniflux\\/") { return 403; }
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