What is OpenRSS?
OpenRSS is a web crawler operated by OpenRSS. RSS Feed Provider / Feed Fetcher
Identification
OpenRSSWhy it crawls your site
OpenRSS crawls websites to fetch RSS and Atom feeds for content aggregation. It is operated by OpenRSS 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 OpenRSS
Add a Disallow rule for OpenRSS 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 OpenRSS from crawling your entire site User-agent: OpenRSS Disallow: / # Allow OpenRSS full access User-agent: OpenRSS Allow: /
Ensure your robots.txt allows OpenRSS. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to OpenRSS's documentation.
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