PocketCasts
Podcast platform crawler parsing feeds and episodes
About this crawler
PocketCasts is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern PocketCasts\/ in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as feed-reader. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block PocketCasts traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
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Technical details
- Name
- PocketCasts
- Pattern
PocketCasts\/- Tags
- feed-reader
- Reference
- https://support.pocketcasts.com/knowledge-base/pocket-casts-feed-parser/
- Added
- 2026/04/17
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
PocketCasts/1.0 (Pocket Casts Feed Parser; +http://pocketcasts.com/)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow PocketCasts:
User-agent: PocketCasts
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} PocketCasts\/ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "PocketCasts\\/") {
return 403;
}
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