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Feeder

Name: Feeder
Author: Really Simple AB

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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

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.