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FeedWind Crawler

GoodBotVerifiedBOT

Accesses feed sources to ensure feed widget is up to date (crawls every 5 minutes to 5 hours depending on a user's plan). Operated by Mikle.

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Assessment

Feed Fetcher

What is FeedWind Crawler?

FeedWind Crawler is a web crawler operated by Mikle. Accesses feed sources to ensure feed widget is up to date (crawls every 5 minutes to 5 hours depending on a user's plan).

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

Identification

Bot name

FeedWind Crawler

Operator

Mikle

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

None found

Disguises itself or evades blocks

None found

Overloads sites

None found

How widely people complain

No complaint about this bot in the evidence

Reddit discussion

There is no Reddit discussion of this bot in the evidence

What we read

Why it crawls your site

FeedWind Crawler crawls websites to fetch RSS and Atom feeds for content aggregation. It is operated by Mikle 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 FeedWind Crawler

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for Feedwind/ 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 FeedWind Crawler from crawling your entire site
User-agent: Feedwind/
Disallow: /

# Allow FeedWind Crawler full access
User-agent: Feedwind/
Allow: /