PodscanBot

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The ingestion crawler of Podscan, a podcast monitoring and full-text search platform. It fetches podcast RSS feeds and episode content so the platform can index and alert on what is said in them. Podscan documents conditional GET requests with If-Modified-Since and ETag, gzip support, exponential backoff up to 24 hours for feeds that have not changed, and that it honours Cache-Control max-age, Retry-After, and the RSS skipDays and skipHours tags. It publishes no IP ranges, so requests cannot be attributed to the operator beyond the User-Agent.

Operated by Podscan Inc. · Official documentation

User agents

Patterns this directory matches, with real observed strings.

regexPodscanBot
observedPodscanBot/1.1.0 Ubuntu/22.04 (Linux) Podscan.fm

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.