Verified Bots Directory

Directory / Feed fetchers

Pocket Casts Feed Parser

Verifiable

The server-side feed parser of the Pocket Casts podcast app. It periodically downloads podcast RSS feeds to check for new episodes, update show metadata such as titles, descriptions and artwork, and verify that feeds are still reachable, so that listeners' apps do not each fetch the feed themselves. The operator documents reasonable delays between requests and asks publishers not to block the parser's user agent or addresses.

Operated by Automattic, Inc. · Official documentation

User agents

Patterns this directory matches, with real observed strings.

  • regexPocketCasts/[\d.]+ \(Pocket Casts Feed Parser
  • observedPocketCasts/1.0 (Pocket Casts Feed Parser; +http://pocketcasts.com/)

How to verify

Documented static ranges: 35.169.190.168/32, 3.219.254.95/32, 3.215.36.60/32, 3.216.185.164/32

IP ranges (4)

Refreshed daily from the operator's feed. Also available as /data/ips/pocket-casts.ips and /data/bots/pocket-casts.json.

3.215.36.60/32
3.216.185.164/32
3.219.254.95/32
35.169.190.168/32

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.