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Pocket Casts Feed Parser

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Fetches podcast feeds, for playback in the Pocket Casts apps Operated by Pocket Casts.

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Assessment

Feed Fetcher

What is Pocket Casts Feed Parser?

Pocket Casts Feed Parser is a web crawler operated by Pocket Casts. Fetches podcast feeds, for playback in the Pocket Casts apps

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

Identification

Bot name

Pocket Casts Feed Parser

Operator

Pocket Casts

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

Pocket Casts Feed Parser crawls websites to fetch RSS and Atom feeds for content aggregation. It is operated by Pocket Casts 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 Pocket Casts Feed Parser

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for Pocket Casts Feed Parser 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 Pocket Casts Feed Parser from crawling your entire site
User-agent: Pocket Casts Feed Parser
Disallow: /

# Allow Pocket Casts Feed Parser full access
User-agent: Pocket Casts Feed Parser
Allow: /

Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows Pocket Casts Feed Parser. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Pocket Casts's documentation.