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HubSpot Feed Fetcher

Name: HubSpot Feed Fetcher
Author: HubSpot

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When posting to LinkedIn from Hubspot, images need to be pulled through to LinkedIn when published. The crawler performs this function Operated by HubSpot.

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Assessment

Feed Fetcher

What is HubSpot Feed Fetcher?

HubSpot Feed Fetcher is a web crawler operated by HubSpot. When posting to LinkedIn from Hubspot, images need to be pulled through to LinkedIn when published. The crawler performs this function

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

Identification

Bot name

HubSpot Feed Fetcher

Operator

HubSpot

Why it crawls your site

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

Block or allow HubSpot Feed Fetcher

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for HubSpot-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 HubSpot Feed Fetcher from crawling your entire site
User-agent: HubSpot-FeedFetcher
Disallow: /

# Allow HubSpot Feed Fetcher full access
User-agent: HubSpot-FeedFetcher
Allow: /

Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows HubSpot-FeedFetcher. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to HubSpot's documentation.