iTMS

feed-reader 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.

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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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