theoldreader.com
The Old Reader web crawler bot
About this crawler
theoldreader.com is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern theoldreader\.com in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as feed-reader. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block theoldreader.com traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.065%
Technical details
- Name
- theoldreader.com
- Pattern
theoldreader\.com- Tags
- feed-reader
- Reference
- https://www.theoldreader.com/
- Added
- 2018/12/02
- rDNS suffixes
.theoldreader.com- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
rDNS verification (FCrDNS)
Verify a request is genuinely theoldreader.com with forward-confirmed reverse DNS: the client IP's PTR record must end in one of the suffixes below and a forward A/AAAA lookup of that hostname must return the same IP. UA strings alone are spoofable; FCrDNS is not.
.theoldreader.com
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; theoldreader.com)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow theoldreader.com:
User-agent: theoldreader.com
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} theoldreader\.com [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "theoldreader\\.com") {
return 403;
}
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