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%
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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