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Feeder

Usually allow

Feeder is a feed fetcher from Really Simple AB used for RSS or Atom feed polling, syndication refresh, subscription delivery.

User-Agent

feeder.co

User-agent strings are identity signals, not proof of identity. Confirm the source and behavior before trusting a request.

Verification and Detection

Verification method: Verify Feeder by matching `feeder.co` to Really Simple AB evidence, then checking reverse DNS, source-network ownership, signed request data, or published crawler documentation when available.

Feeder traffic is primarily detected by the `feeder.co` user-agent pattern; a representative HTTP user-agent is `Mozilla/5.0 (feeder.co; Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/106.0.0.0 Safari/537.36`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence with Really Simple AB infrastructure before trusting the traffic.

Handling Guidance

This bot is usually safe to allow when the request source is verified and its behavior matches the operator documentation and your site policy.

Feeder is used for RSS or Atom feed polling, syndication refresh, subscription delivery, and content update checks.

Record Details

Type
feed
Operator
Really Simple AB
Kind
Fetcher
Purpose
Feed Fetch
Identity
Verified Bot
Detection confidence
Medium
Spoofing risk
Feeder Has Medium Spoofing Risk Because User Agent Strings Can Be Copied; Pair The Match With DNS, IP, Behavior, Or Operator Evidence.
Status
Active
Respects robots.txt
Yes
Last verified
2026 04 30

Robots.txt Snippet

User-agent: feeder.co
Disallow: /