ScourRSSBot
RSS feed discovery and monitoring crawler bot
About this crawler
ScourRSSBot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern ScourRSSBot\/ in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as feed-reader. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block ScourRSSBot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
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Technical details
- Name
- ScourRSSBot
- Pattern
ScourRSSBot\/- Tags
- feed-reader
- Reference
- https://scour.ing/bot
- Added
- 2026/04/17
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
ScourRSSBot/1.0 (+https://scour.ing/bot)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow ScourRSSBot:
User-agent: ScourRSSBot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ScourRSSBot\/ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "ScourRSSBot\\/") {
return 403;
}
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