Feedly

Usually allow

Feedly is a feed fetcher used for RSS or Atom feed polling, syndication refresh, subscription delivery.

User-Agent

Feedly/1

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 Feedly by matching `Feedly/1` to official operator documentation, then checking reverse DNS, IP ownership, request behavior, and crawl consistency.

Feedly traffic is primarily detected by the `Feedly/1` user-agent pattern; a representative HTTP user-agent is `Feedly/1.0 (+http://www.feedly.com/fetcher.html; 1 subscribers; like FeedFetcher-Google)`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence 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.

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

Record Details

Type: feed
Operator: Feedly
Family: Feedly
Kind: Fetcher
Purpose: Feed Fetch
Identity: Verified Bot
Detection confidence: High
Spoofing risk: Feedly Has Medium Spoofing Risk Because The User Agent Can Be Copied, Even When The Bot Has Strong Source Or Documentation Support.
Status: Active
Respects robots.txt: No
Last verified: 2026 06 23

Robots.txt Snippet

User-agent: Feedly/1
Disallow: /