Overview
FeedBurner is a feed fetcher from Google FeedBurner used for RSS or Atom feed polling, syndication refresh, subscription delivery, and content update checks.
Its primary user-agent pattern is FeedBurner.
FeedBurner 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.
FeedBurner is marked as respecting robots.txt directives for crawler access control.
FeedBurner can usually be allowed after confirming the source and monitoring request volume.
Identity
- User-Agent Pattern
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FeedBurner - HTTP Agent Examples
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FeedBurner - Robots Token
- FeedBurner
- Identity Type
- Observed
- Evidence Method
- Treat `FeedBurner` 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
- Google FeedBurner
- Purpose
- Feed fetching
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- FeedBurner is used for RSS or Atom feed polling, syndication refresh, subscription delivery, and content update checks.
- Detection Notes
- FeedBurner traffic is primarily detected by the `FeedBurner` user-agent pattern. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence with Google FeedBurner infrastructure before trusting the traffic.
- Respects robots.txt
- Yes
- Spoofing Risk
- FeedBurner has medium spoofing risk because the user-agent can be copied, even when the bot has strong source or documentation support.
- Risk
- Neutral
- Recommended Handling
- Allow
Rules and controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
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User-agent: FeedBurner Disallow: /
Relationships
- Operator
- Google FeedBurner 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.