Overview
FIT Feeds Fetcher is a feed fetcher from follow.it used for RSS or Atom feed polling, syndication refresh, subscription delivery, and content update checks.
Its primary user-agent pattern is follow.it; related patterns include Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/63.0.3239.132 Safari/537.36 Specificfeeds- http://www.FeedBurner.com http://www.FeedBurner.com.
FIT Feeds Fetcher is verified with Medium confidence. The identity type is Verified Bot, and the evidence basis is a public crawler reference or source-linked documentation.
FIT Feeds Fetcher is marked as not reliably governed by robots.txt directives; use server-side rules if the traffic should be restricted.
FIT Feeds Fetcher can usually be allowed after confirming the source and monitoring request volume.
Identity
- User-Agent Pattern
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follow.it - Aliases
- Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/63.0.3239.132 Safari/537.36 Specificfeeds- http://www.specificfeeds.com https://follow.it
- HTTP Agent Examples
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FeedBurner/1.0 (http://www.FeedBurner.com) Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/63.0.3239.132 Safari/537.36 Specificfeeds- http://www.specificfeeds.com https://follow.it Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/63.0.3239.132 Safari/537.36 Specificfeeds- http://www.specificfeeds.com https://follow.it - Robots Token
- follow.it
- Identity Type
- Verified bot
- Evidence Method
- Verify FIT Feeds Fetcher by matching `follow.it` to follow.it evidence, then checking reverse DNS, source-network ownership, signed request data, or published crawler documentation when available.
Classification
- Type
- Feed
- Kind
- Fetcher
- Family
- FIT Feeds Fetcher
- Purpose
- Feed fetch
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- FIT Feeds Fetcher is used for RSS or Atom feed polling, syndication refresh, subscription delivery, and content update checks.
- Detection Notes
- FIT Feeds Fetcher traffic is primarily detected by the `follow.it` user-agent pattern; related patterns include `Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh`; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/63.0.3239.132 Safari/537.36 Specificfeeds- http://www.FeedBurner.com http://www.FeedBurner.com Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence with follow.it infrastructure before trusting the traffic.
- Respects robots.txt
- No
- Spoofing Risk
- FIT Feeds Fetcher has medium spoofing risk because user-agent strings can be copied; pair the match with DNS, IP, behavior, or operator evidence.
- Risk
- Safe
- Recommended Handling
- Depends
Rules and controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
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# This agent may ignore robots.txt. Use authenticated access controls or network policy when blocking is required.
Relationships
- Operator
- follow.it Checked 2026-06-23
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.