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Protopage

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Protopage.com indexes RSS news headlines mostly from news sites Operated by Protopage Ltd.

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Assessment

Feed Fetcher

What is Protopage?

Protopage is a web crawler operated by Protopage Ltd. Protopage.com indexes RSS news headlines mostly from news sites

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

Identification

Bot name

Protopage

Operator

Protopage Ltd

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

Discussion is neutral or practical, such as how to allow or block it

What we read

Why it crawls your site

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

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for Protopage 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 Protopage from crawling your entire site
User-agent: Protopage
Disallow: /

# Allow Protopage full access
User-agent: Protopage
Allow: /

Allow & verify

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