FIT Feeds Fetcher
Usually allowFIT Feeds Fetcher is a feed fetcher from follow.it used for RSS or Atom feed polling, syndication refresh, subscription delivery.
User-Agent
follow.itUser-agent strings are identity signals, not proof of identity. Confirm the source and behavior before trusting a request.
Verification and Detection
Verification 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.
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.specificfeeds.com https://follow.it`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence with follow.it 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.
FIT Feeds Fetcher is used for RSS or Atom feed polling, syndication refresh, subscription delivery, and content update checks.
Record Details
- 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
- Type
- feed
- Operator
- follow.it
- Family
- FIT Feeds Fetcher
- Kind
- Fetcher
- Purpose
- Feed Fetch
- Identity
- Verified Bot
- Detection confidence
- Medium
- 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.
- Status
- Active
- Respects robots.txt
- No
- Last verified
- 2026 06 23
Robots.txt Snippet
User-agent: follow.it
Disallow: /