Feedly

What is Feedly?

About

Feedly is an RSS reader bot that fetches and aggregates content from blogs, news sites, and newsletters. It provides threat intelligence, market intelligence, and news reading services by crawling and collecting articles from various sources. You can see how often Feedly visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors Agent Analytics.

Agent Type

Fetcher
Fetches web content on behalf of an app

Expected Behavior

Fetchers retrieve metadata from web pages to generate link previews in social media platforms, messaging apps, and content aggregators. They're triggered on-demand when users share or post links, fetching information like titles, descriptions, and thumbnail images. Traffic is unpredictable and correlates with how often your content is shared. Viral content may trigger thousands of fetcher requests in a short period. Fetchers typically access only the shared URL rather than crawling your site.

Detail

Operated By Feedly
Last Updated 11 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

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

United States
Feedly normally visits from the United States

Global Traffic

The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Fetchers

Top Visited Website Categories

Reference
Books and Literature
Arts and Entertainment
Science
Business and Industrial
How Do I Get These Insights for My Website?
Use the WordPress plugin, Node.js package, or API to get started in seconds.

Robots.txt

Should I Block Feedly?

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 Feedly?

You can block Feedly 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.
User Agent String Feedly/1.0 (poller; 503 subscribers; )
# In your robots.txt ...

User-agent: Feedly # https://darkvisitors.com/agents/feedly
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.

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