rssbot

feed-reader rssbot\/

RSS bot web crawler for feeds

About this crawler

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

Block-rate · top 25k sites

0.065%
latest snapshot
2026-06-04
matched key: rssbot
2026-05-012026-06-040.11%

Technical details

Name
rssbot
Pattern
rssbot\/
Tags
feed-reader
Reference
https://github.com/iovxw/rssbot
Added
2020/03/16
Instances
1 known sample(s)

Sample User-Agent strings

rssbot/1.4.3 (+https://t.me/RustRssBot)

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow rssbot:

User-agent: rssbot Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} rssbot\/ [NC] RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

if ($http_user_agent ~* "rssbot\\/") { return 403; }
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