EchoFeed
GoodBotVerifiedBOTEchoFeed is an RSS feed cross-poster that rea Operated by Robb Knight.
What is EchoFeed?
EchoFeed is a specialized automation tool created by Robb Knight that functions as a bridge between content feeds and social or archival platforms. It monitors specified RSS, Atom, or JSON feeds for new entries and automatically propagates that content to services like Mastodon, Bluesky, Micro.blog, and Discord. Although the service has officially ceased new sign-ups and is in the process of shutting down, its crawler remains active to fulfill existing user configurations.
Identification
EchoFeedHow we rated this bot
Verified by Cloudflare, which confirms who runs it, with no widespread reports of abuse.
What we read
- Meta Has New Web-Crawling Bots That Sneakily Get Around Robots.txt - Business Insider
- The Major Companies and Media Outlets Blocking OpenAI's Crawler GPTBot - Business Insider
- What Is a robots.txt File? (And When To Use One)
- Known Agents Review: Google Analytics for Bots | Agent Finder
- HUMAN and TollBit Empower Websites with Robust Bot Management and Content Monetization Solutions for AI Agents
Why it crawls your site
The bot crawls websites to check for updates in syndication feeds (RSS/Atom/JSON) to ensure that content is synchronized across the user's connected accounts. It performs these requests periodically to detect new items, which it then processes and pushes to the destination services defined by the user. The operator provides transparency via the echofeed.app domain, which serves as the primary identifier for the bot's activity.
Block or allow EchoFeed
Add a Disallow rule for EchoFeed 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 EchoFeed from crawling your entire site User-agent: EchoFeed Disallow: / # Allow EchoFeed full access User-agent: EchoFeed Allow: /
Ensure your robots.txt allows EchoFeed. Verify requests by checking the user-agent string.
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