Overview
Muck Rack Scraper is a feed fetcher from Muck Rack used for RSS or Atom feed polling, syndication refresh, subscription delivery, and content update checks.
Its primary user-agent pattern is muckrack.com; related patterns include MuckRackFeedParser/1.0 +https://muckrack.com; a representative HTTP user-agent is Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MuckRack/1.0; +https://muckrack.com) MuckRackFeedParser/1.0 +https://muckrack.com.
Muck Rack Scraper is verified with Medium confidence. The identity type is Verified Bot, and the evidence basis is a public crawler reference or source-linked documentation.
Muck Rack Scraper is marked as not reliably governed by robots.txt directives; use server-side rules if the traffic should be restricted.
Muck Rack Scraper can usually be allowed after confirming the source and monitoring request volume.
Identity
- User-Agent
muckrack.com- Aliases
- MuckRackFeedParser/1.0 +https://muckrack.com
- HTTP Agent Examples
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MuckRack/1.0; +https://muckrack.com) MuckRackFeedParser/1.0 +https://muckrack.com- Robots.txt Token
muckrack.com- Identity Type
- Verified Bot
- Evidence Method
- Verify Muck Rack Scraper by matching `muckrack.com` to Muck Rack evidence, then checking reverse DNS, source-network ownership, signed request data, or published crawler documentation when available.
Classification
- Type
- Feed
- Kind
- Fetcher
- Family
- Muck Rack
- Purpose
- feed-fetch
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- Muck Rack Scraper is used for RSS or Atom feed polling, syndication refresh, subscription delivery, and content update checks.
- Detection Notes
- Muck Rack Scraper traffic is primarily detected by the `muckrack.com` user-agent pattern; related patterns include `MuckRackFeedParser/1.0 +https://muckrack.com a representative HTTP user-agent is `Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MuckRack/1.0; +https://muckrack.com) MuckRackFeedParser/1.0 +https://muckrack.com Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence with Muck Rack infrastructure before trusting the traffic.
- Respects robots.txt
- No
- Spoofing Risk
- Muck Rack Scraper 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
# This agent may ignore robots.txt. Use authenticated access controls or network policy when blocking is required.