Buttondown

What is Buttondown?

About

Buttondown is an automated RSS feed crawler that fetches content from blogs and websites to convert them into newsletter content, allowing users to turn their RSS feeds into automated mailing lists. You can see how often Buttondown visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors agent analytics.

Expected Behavior

Fetchers visit websites on-demand. They're normally dispatched by apps to present metadata about a link (e.g. the title and thumbnail image) to a user.

Type

Fetcher
Fetches web content on behalf of an app

Detail

Operated By Buttondown
Last Updated 17 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

0%
0% of top websites are blocking Buttondown
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Country of Origin

Unknown
Buttondown has no known country of origin

Global Traffic

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Fetchers

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Robots.txt

Should I Block Buttondown?

Probably not. If you block a fetcher, it won't be able to fetch the metadata it needs to display a link preview. Fewer people will click on the link to your website without this.

How Do I Block Buttondown?

⚠️ Manual Robots.txt Edits Are Not Scalable
New agents are created every day. Instead, serve a continuously updating robots.txt that blocks new agents automatically.
Set Up Automatic Robots.txt

You can block Buttondown or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt. Set up Dark Visitors agent analytics to check whether it's actually following them.

# robots.txt
# This should block Buttondown

User-agent: Buttondown
Disallow: /

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