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Feeder

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A cloud-based RSS reader with over 500 000 users subscribed to over 3 million feed URLs Operated by Really Simple AB.

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Assessment

Feed Fetcher

What is Feeder?

Feeder is a web crawler operated by Really Simple AB. A cloud-based RSS reader with over 500 000 users subscribed to over 3 million feed URLs

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

Identification

Bot name

Feeder

Operator

Really Simple AB

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

Feeder crawls websites to fetch RSS and Atom feeds for content aggregation. It is operated by Really Simple AB 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 Feeder

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for feeder.co 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 Feeder from crawling your entire site
User-agent: feeder.co
Disallow: /

# Allow Feeder full access
User-agent: feeder.co
Allow: /

Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows feeder.co. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Really Simple AB's documentation.