Verified Bots Directory

Directory / Feed fetchers

NewsBlur Feed Fetcher

Listed only

NewsBlur's open-source feed fetcher, which polls RSS/Atom feeds on behalf of subscribed users. Its user agent embeds the live subscriber count and the feed's permalink; NewsBlur publishes no fixed IP range for it.

Operated by NewsBlur · Official documentation

User agents

Patterns this directory matches, with real observed strings.

  • regexNewsBlur Feed Fetcher
  • observedNewsBlur Feed Fetcher - 1 subscriber - http://www.newsblur.com/site/0000000/webpage (Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/14.0.1 Safari/605.1.15)

How to verify

No verification recipe published by the operator.

Good Bot Practices scorecard

  • Identifies honestly

    Stable UA token documented (1 pattern)

  • Verifiable

    Operator publishes no verification path

  • 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.