iTMS
Apple Podcasts feed retrieval and content updates
About this crawler
iTMS is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern iTMS in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as feed-reader. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block iTMS traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
No block-rate data for this crawler.
Technical details
- Name
- iTMS
- Pattern
iTMS- Tags
- feed-reader
- Reference
- https://support.apple.com/en-gb/119829
- Added
- 2026/05/02
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
iTMS
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow iTMS:
User-agent: iTMS
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} iTMS [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "iTMS") {
return 403;
}
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