Quick answer
What is FeedOtter?
FeedOtter is a feed fetcher used for RSS or Atom feed polling, syndication refresh, subscription delivery, and content update checks.
Its primary user-agent pattern is FeedOtter; related patterns include Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; FeedOtter/2.1; +the operator's published verification endpoint) Chrome/126.0.0.0 Safari/537.36; a representative HTTP user-agent is Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; FeedOtter/2.1; +the operator's published verification endpoint) Chrome/126.0.0.0 Safari/537.36.
FeedOtter is verified with Medium confidence. The identity type is Verified Bot, and the evidence basis is a public crawler reference or source-linked documentation.
FeedOtter is marked as not reliably governed by robots.txt directives; use server-side rules if the traffic should be restricted.
FeedOtter should be reviewed against site policy, source evidence, crawl rate, and requested paths before a permanent allow or block rule is created.
Identity
How to identify this Bot
- User-Agent
FeedOtter- robots.txt token
FeedOtter- HTTP agent
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0Win64x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTMLlike GeckocompatibleFeedOtter/2.1+http://www.feedotter.com/privacy) Chrome/126.0.0.0 Safari/537.36- Aliases
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0Win64x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTMLlike GeckocompatibleFeedOtter/2.1+http://www.feedotter.com/privacy) Chrome/126.0.0.0 Safari/537.36- Operator
- FeedOtter
- Family
- FeedOtter
- Technical kind
- fetcher
- Identity method
- verified-bot
Behavior
Purpose, behavior, and practical context
- Purpose
- feed-fetch
- Common use
- FeedOtter is used for RSS or Atom feed polling, syndication refresh, subscription delivery, and content update checks.
- Respects robots.txt
- no
- Spoofing risk
- FeedOtter has medium spoofing risk because user-agent strings can be copied; pair the match with DNS, IP, behavior, or operator evidence.
- Detection notes
- FeedOtter traffic is primarily detected by the `FeedOtter` user-agent pattern; related patterns include `Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; FeedOtter/2.1; +the operator's published verification endpoint) Chrome/126.0.0.0 Safari/537.36`; a representative HTTP user-agent is `Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; FeedOtter/2.1; +the operator's published verification endpoint) Chrome/126.0.0.0 Safari/537.36`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence before trusting the traffic.
Verification and controls
Verification and blocking guidance
- Verification method
- Verify FeedOtter by matching `FeedOtter` to a public crawler reference or source-linked documentation, then checking reverse DNS, IP ownership, request behavior, and crawl consistency.
- General blocking snippet
User-agent: FeedOtterDisallow: /
Related records