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Quick answer
What is HubSpot Feed Fetcher?
HubSpot Feed Fetcher is a feed fetcher from HubSpot used for RSS or Atom feed polling, syndication refresh, subscription delivery, and content update checks.
Its primary user-agent pattern is HubSpot-FeedFetcher.
HubSpot Feed Fetcher is verified with Medium confidence. The identity type is Verified Bot, and the evidence basis is documented crawler-pattern evidence.
HubSpot Feed Fetcher does not have confirmed robots.txt behavior in the available public evidence.
HubSpot Feed Fetcher can usually be allowed after confirming the source and monitoring request volume.
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Identity
How to identify this Bot
- User-Agent
HubSpot-FeedFetcher- robots.txt token
HubSpot-FeedFetcher- HTTP agent
HubSpot-FeedFetcher- Operator
- HubSpot
- Family
- HubSpot
- Technical kind
- fetcher
- Identity method
- verified-bot
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Behavior
Purpose, behavior, and practical context
- Purpose
- feed-fetch
- Common use
- HubSpot Feed Fetcher is used for RSS or Atom feed polling, syndication refresh, subscription delivery, and content update checks.
- Respects robots.txt
- unknown
- Spoofing risk
- HubSpot Feed Fetcher has medium spoofing risk because user-agent strings can be copied; pair the match with DNS, IP, behavior, or operator evidence.
- Detection notes
- HubSpot Feed Fetcher traffic is primarily detected by the `HubSpot-FeedFetcher` user-agent pattern. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence with HubSpot infrastructure before trusting the traffic.
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Verification and controls
Verification and blocking guidance
- Verification method
- Verify HubSpot Feed Fetcher by matching `HubSpot-FeedFetcher` to HubSpot evidence, then checking reverse DNS, source-network ownership, signed request data, or published crawler documentation when available.
- General blocking snippet
User-agent: HubSpot-FeedFetcherDisallow: /
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