rss-parser

feed-reader rss-parser

Newsletter RSS feed parser and aggregator

About this crawler

rss-parser is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern rss-parser in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as feed-reader. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block rss-parser traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.

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Technical details

Name
rss-parser
Pattern
rss-parser
Tags
feed-reader
Reference
https://buttondown.com/about
Added
2026/04/17
Instances
1 known sample(s)

Sample User-Agent strings

rss-parser / Buttondown

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow rss-parser:

User-agent: rss-parser Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} rss-parser [NC] RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

if ($http_user_agent ~* "rss-parser") { return 403; }
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