UniversalFeedParser
Universal Feed Parser
About this crawler
UniversalFeedParser is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern UniversalFeedParser in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as feed-reader. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block UniversalFeedParser traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.13%
Technical details
- Name
- UniversalFeedParser
- Pattern
UniversalFeedParser- Tags
- feed-reader
- Reference
- http://feedparser.org/
- Added
- 2026/05/09
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
UniversalFeedParser/3.3 +http://feedparser.org/
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow UniversalFeedParser:
User-agent: UniversalFeedParser
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} UniversalFeedParser [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "UniversalFeedParser") {
return 403;
}
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