feedbot
WordPress.com feed web crawler bot
About this crawler
feedbot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern feedbot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as feed-reader. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block feedbot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.065%
Technical details
- Name
- feedbot
- Pattern
feedbot- Tags
- feed-reader
- Reference
- https://wordpress.com/
- Added
- 2020/03/02
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
wp.com feedbot/1.0 (+https://wp.com)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow feedbot:
User-agent: feedbot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} feedbot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "feedbot") {
return 403;
}
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