Buttondown RSS-Feed-Parser

What is Buttondown RSS-Feed-Parser?

About

Buttondown RSS-Feed-Parser is a fetcher operated by Buttondown. If you think this is incorrect or can provide additional detail about its purpose, please contact us. You can see how often Buttondown RSS-Feed-Parser 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 19 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

0%
0% of top websites are blocking Buttondown RSS-Feed-Parser
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Country of Origin

United States
Buttondown RSS-Feed-Parser normally visits from the United States

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 RSS-Feed-Parser?

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 RSS-Feed-Parser?

You can block Buttondown RSS-Feed-Parser 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.

How Do I Block All Fetchers?
Serve a continuously updating robots.txt that blocks new fetchers automatically.
Set Up Automatic Robots.txt
User Agent String Buttondown RSS-Feed-Parser/1.0 (https://buttondown.com) 
# In your robots.txt ...

User-agent: Buttondown RSS-Feed-Parser # https://darkvisitors.com/agents/buttondown-rss-feed-parser
Disallow: /

⚠️ Manual Robots.txt Editing Is Not Scalable

New agents are created every day. We recommend setting up Dark Visitors Automatic Robots.txt if you want to block all agents of this type.