Feed fetchers poll RSS and Atom feeds for readers, aggregators and podcast apps.
They usually request feeds only, so they are cheap to allow. Watch for fetchers that pull full pages at high rates.
Of the 5 feed fetchers with a stated policy, 5 follow robots.txt and 0 do not. Bots that ignore robots.txt can only be stopped by user agent or IP at your server, CDN or WAF.
Transfon Security identifies every bot in this directory in your traffic reports, flags fake search crawlers, and lets you allow, block or rate limit each bot.
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