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Overcast

Name: Overcast
Author: Overcast Radio

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Overcast is a podcast player application, and its bot fetches RSS feeds and audio files from podcast hosting servers. This keeps the podcast directory and episodes updated for its users. Operated by Overcast Radio.

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Assessment

Feed Fetcher

What is Overcast?

Overcast is a web crawler operated by Overcast Radio. Overcast is a podcast player application, and its bot fetches RSS feeds and audio files from podcast hosting servers. This keeps the podcast directory and episodes updated for its users.

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

Identification

Bot name

Overcast

Operator

Overcast Radio

Why it crawls your site

Overcast crawls websites to fetch RSS and Atom feeds for content aggregation. It is operated by Overcast Radio 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 Overcast

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for Overcast/1.0 Podcast Sync 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 Overcast from crawling your entire site
User-agent: Overcast/1.0 Podcast Sync
Disallow: /

# Allow Overcast full access
User-agent: Overcast/1.0 Podcast Sync
Allow: /

Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows Overcast/1.0 Podcast Sync. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Overcast Radio's documentation.