Feedbin
VerifiableFeedbin'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.