Directory / Feed fetchers

Feedbin

Verifiable

Feedbin's feed fetcher, which retrieves RSS/Atom feeds that users have subscribed to. Its user agent includes the internal feed id and current subscriber count, and Feedbin documents forward-confirmed reverse DNS in *.bot.feedbin.com as the way to verify its requests.

Operated by Feedbin · Official documentation

User agents

Patterns this directory matches, with real observed strings.

  • regexFeedbin feed-id:\d+
  • observedFeedbin feed-id:2005098 - 2 subscribers
  • observedFeedbin feed-id:1234 - 21 subscribers

How to verify

Reverse-DNS check a client IP

dig -x <client-ip> +short   # expect a hostname matching *.bot.feedbin.com

Reverse-DNS suffixes: *.bot.feedbin.com

Good Bot Practices scorecard

  • Identifies honestly

    Stable UA token documented (1 pattern)

  • Verifiable

    Verifiable

  • Respects robots.txt

    Does not honor robots.txt

  • Behaves

    Crawl-rate behavior is operator-declared; not machine-verifiable from this dataset

  • Reachable operator

    Operator and documentation published

Measured against the Good Bot Practices.