Overview
Bloglines 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 Bloglines.
Bloglines is Unverified at the identity-evidence level. The listed identity remains useful for detection, but this record does not currently contain authoritative evidence sufficient to authenticate the identity claim.
Robots.txt behavior is not currently confirmed.
Bloglines can usually be allowed after confirming the source and monitoring request volume.
Identity
- User-Agent Pattern
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Bloglines - HTTP Agent Examples
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Bloglines - Robots Token
- Bloglines
- Identity Type
- Observed
- Evidence Method
- Treat `Bloglines` as an identity signal only. Confirm it with current operator documentation, cryptographic verification, forward-confirmed reverse DNS, source-network ownership, or other authoritative evidence before trusting the claimed identity.
Classification
- Type
- Feed fetcher
- Kind
- Feed fetcher
- Family
- Bloglines
- Purpose
- Feed fetching
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- Bloglines is used for RSS or Atom feed polling, syndication refresh, subscription delivery, and content update checks.
- Detection Notes
- Bloglines traffic is primarily detected by the `Bloglines` user-agent pattern. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence before trusting the traffic.
- Respects robots.txt
- Unknown
- Spoofing Risk
- Bloglines has high spoofing risk because the pattern is low-confidence or observation-based; do not trust the user-agent by itself.
- Risk
- Neutral
- Recommended Handling
- Allow
Rules and controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
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# robots.txt behavior is unconfirmed. Do not rely on this rule without verification.
Relationships
- Operator
- Bloglines Checked 2026-08-07
Relationships without an Evidence link are normalized from the canonical directory record. They should not be interpreted as independent proof of physical presence or request origin.