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Google Feed Fetcher

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Google FeedFetcher is the RSS reader for Google. Operated by Google.

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Assessment

Feed Fetcher

What is Google Feed Fetcher?

Google Feed Fetcher is a web crawler operated by Google. Google FeedFetcher is the RSS reader for Google.

Helpful — Verified, safe crawler. Respects robots.txt and provides operator documentation.

Identification

Bot name

Google Feed Fetcher

Operator

Google

How we rated this bot

Verified by Cloudflare, which confirms who runs it, with no widespread reports of abuse.

Names itself honestly

Yes

Verified by Cloudflare

Yes

Says it follows robots.txt and opt-outs

Not stated

Ignores site rules

Credible reports found

Disguises itself or evades blocks

None found

Overloads sites

None found

How widely people complain

One or two isolated anecdotes from individual site owners

Reddit discussion

There is no Reddit discussion of this bot in the evidence

What we read

Why it crawls your site

Google Feed Fetcher crawls websites to fetch RSS and Atom feeds for content aggregation. It is operated by Google as part of their feed aggregation infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

IP ranges

Requests from Google Feed Fetcher originate from these published ranges. For strict verification, match the source IP against this list in addition to checking the user-agent and reverse-DNS.

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Block or allow Google Feed Fetcher

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for google.com/feedfetcher in your robots.txt file. You can also block at the server level using your web server configuration or CDN firewall rules to filter requests matching the user-agent string.

# Block Google Feed Fetcher from crawling your entire site
User-agent: google.com/feedfetcher
Disallow: /

# Allow Google Feed Fetcher full access
User-agent: google.com/feedfetcher
Allow: /

Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows google.com/feedfetcher. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Google's documentation.