Overview
rss2tg_bot is a feed fetcher from Yellow Rubber Duck Consulting used for RSS or Atom feed polling, syndication refresh, subscription delivery, and content update checks.
Its primary user-agent pattern is rss2tg bot; related patterns include rss2tg crawler; a representative HTTP user-agent is Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; rss2tg bot; +http://komar.in/en/rss2tg_crawler).
rss2tg_bot is Unverified at the identity-evidence level. The listed identity remains useful for detection, but this record does not currently contain authoritative evidence sufficient to authenticate the identity claim.
rss2tg_bot is marked as not reliably governed by robots.txt directives; use server-side rules if the traffic should be restricted.
rss2tg_bot can usually be allowed after confirming the source and monitoring request volume.
Identity
- User-Agent
rss2tg bot- Aliases
- rss2tg crawler
- HTTP Agent Examples
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; rss2tg bot; +http://komar.in/en/rss2tg_crawler)- Robots.txt Token
rss2tg bot- Identity Type
- Observed
- Evidence Method
- Treat `rss2tg bot` as an identity signal only. Confirm it with current operator documentation, cryptographic verification, forward-confirmed reverse DNS, source-network ownership, or other authoritative evidence before trusting the claimed identity.
Classification
- Type
- Feed
- Kind
- Fetcher
- Family
- Yellow Rubber Duck Consulting
- Purpose
- feed-fetch
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- rss2tg_bot is used for RSS or Atom feed polling, syndication refresh, subscription delivery, and content update checks.
- Detection Notes
- rss2tg_bot traffic is primarily detected by the `rss2tg bot` user-agent pattern; related patterns include `rss2tg crawler`; a representative HTTP user-agent is `Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; rss2tg bot; +http://komar.in/en/rss2tg_crawler)`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence with Yellow Rubber Duck Consulting infrastructure before trusting the traffic.
- Respects robots.txt
- No
- Spoofing Risk
- rss2tg_bot 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.