MonitoRSS is a bot in the feed fetchers category, operated by MonitoRSS.
This is for the official public hosting of the open-source project https://github.com/synzen/MonitoRSS so that the bot may poll for RSS feeds of Cloudflare-protected sites to deliver news articles. Feeds are chosen by paid users, and the bot adds them to a schedule to be polled at a regular interval of 2-10 minutes.
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.
MonitoRSS identifies itself with this user agent string:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:89.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/89.0 MonitoRSS/1.0Anyone can copy a user agent string. Transfon Security also checks where each request comes from, so a request that claims to be a known crawler but comes from the wrong network is treated as a fake, not as the real crawler.
MonitoRSS follows robots.txt, so these rules stop it crawling the paths you choose. robots.txt is a plain text file at the root of your domain, such as https://example.com/robots.txt.
User-agent: MonitoRSS Disallow: /
User-agent: MonitoRSS Disallow: /private/ Disallow: /search
User-agent: MonitoRSS Allow: /blog/ Disallow: /
User-agent: MonitoRSS Allow: / User-agent: * Disallow: /
User-agent: MonitoRSS group, MonitoRSS ignores your User-agent: * rules, so repeat any that should still apply.MonitoRSS from MonitoRSS's user agent; check MonitoRSS's own documentation if it publishes a different robots.txt name.Treat robots.txt as a statement of your policy, and enforce it where requests arrive.
MonitoRSS fetches pages when your links are shared or syndicated. Keep it allowed so previews and feeds work, but leave it out of page views and ad requests.
Transfon Security for publishersWhen ads or posts are shared, MonitoRSS fetches the landing page. Those hits are not clicks, so keep them out of campaign reports.
Transfon Security for advertisersProduct links shared in chats and feeds are fetched by MonitoRSS. Keep it allowed so previews show the right image and price.
Transfon Security for e-commerceAllow MonitoRSS on public pages so shared links preview well, and keep it off the app.
Transfon Security for SaaS and APIsrobots.txt is a request, not an enforcement. Transfon Security shows MonitoRSS by name in the Top Bots report, so you can see how often it visits and which pages it reads. Block or allow it with a User Agent rule, or slow it down with a rate limit decision rule.
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MonitoRSS is a bot in the feed fetchers category, operated by MonitoRSS. This is for the official public hosting of the open-source project https://github.com/synzen/MonitoRSS so that the bot may poll for RSS feeds of Cloudflare-protected sites to deliver news articles. Feeds are chosen by paid users, and the bot adds them to a schedule to be polled at a regular interval of 2-10 minutes.
Yes. MonitoRSS follows robots.txt, so a Disallow rule for the MonitoRSS user agent stops it from crawling the paths you list.
Add "User-agent: MonitoRSS" followed by "Disallow: /" to the robots.txt file at the root of your site. To enforce it, block requests whose user agent contains "MonitoRSS/" at your WAF. In Transfon Security that is one User Agent block rule.
No. robots.txt is voluntary, so MonitoRSS may not follow it, and anyone can send MonitoRSS's user agent, so a fake MonitoRSS ignores your rule. Enforce the rule where requests arrive, at your WAF, and check the source network.
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.
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