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.

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 Feedly
Last Updated 2 minutes 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

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Fetchers

Top Visited Website Categories

Arts and Entertainment
Online Communities
People and Society
Finance
Food and Drink
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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?

⚠️ 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 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.

User Agent String Feedly/1.0 (+http://www.feedly.com/fetcher.html; 108 subscribers; ) 
# robots.txt
# This should block Feedly

User-agent: Feedly
Disallow: /

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