Directory / Feed fetchers

ScourRSSBot

Listed only

Feed fetcher for Scour, a personalized content feed service in which users subscribe to RSS, Atom and JSON feeds and topics of interest. It polls each subscribed feed once every 900 seconds regardless of subscriber count, uses conditional requests, rate-limits itself to two requests per second per registrable domain, and backs off on error responses.

Operated by Scour (Evan Schwartz) · Official documentation

User agents

Patterns this directory matches, with real observed strings.

  • regexScourRSSBot/[\d.]+
  • observedScourRSSBot/1.0 (+https://scour.ing/bot)

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.